chapel, and this is all which the undergraduates need hear from them. To these prayers, observes Mr Gray, the only objection seems to be that they omit every thing peculiar to any particular sect or party ; and this by the people of Massachusetts will undoubtedly be deemed a high commendation.' To so little do the charges of sectarianism against the college amount, and so groundless are all fears growing out of the connexion of the Theological school with the University. 6 To the objection that the preachers at the chapel are Unitarians, it is answered, that no student is required to hear them. Every one may attend any other church which he, or his parents shall prefer.' 6 But then all the officers of the college from the President down to the Janitor' it is asserted, are Unitarian. But what is the fact? Of the fifteen 'permanent officers having any connexion with the undergraduates, or receiving any pay from the college funds,' and appointed within the last ten years, the President excepted, eight belong to the several sects of Trinitarians, and only six are Unitarians. Such are some of the facts and arguments of the Letter. It contains much valuable matter which our limits do not permit us to notice. As before intimated, however, it has already obtained a wide circulation, and we conclude with expressing the hope that it will be generally read by the people of this Commonwealth. The publication is timely, and cannot fail to be useful, more especially as the writer being connected with an orthodox church, cannot be supposed to feel any undue partiality for the doctrines of Unitarianism. TIMES OF THE SAVIOUR. The Times of the Saviour. By Harriet Martineau. From the English Edition. Boston. Leonard C. Bowles. 1831. pp. 132. It is impossible to read this little book with indifference. It will be found, especially to the young, at once interesting and instructing. It deserves a prominent place among those useful works, which, with a happy mixture of imagination and reality, are intended to illustrate the times of our Saviour.' There is no little ingenuity in the manner, in which the writer contrives to interweave the real history of the gospels with her fictitious narrative. It is no small part of her praise, as of her success, that she has in no instance allowed her fancy to violate the simplicity or truth of the evangelical record. At the opening of the work, she introduces three young Jews, conferring together on Him, who was to come, the hope of Israel;' astonished, delighted, almost convinced, by the words and works of the Teacher;' and finally yielding their prepossessions, interests, and connexions as Israelites, to a grateful faith in the Messiah. Under several distinct chapters, of which we might select as most pleasing, the two significantly called the hope of the Hebrew,' and the wilderness gladdened,' she exhibits the Master' in his mild dignity, in his gracious words, and his works of mercy. And nothing can be more engaging, nothing more lovely and venerable, than the picture she has drawn. There is here and there, an affectation of expression, which we wish had been avoided. But, on the whole, we have looked over few works of deeper interest. And, for the information it conveys, in the pleasantest manner, of the customs, opinions, prepossessions of the Jews; its familiar, but accurate references to the various scenes of our Saviour's ministry, to the cities, villages, and rivers of Palestine, and thence the knowledge it may give of sacred geography, we commend the little volume to the attention of teachers and to the libraries of Sunday Schools. INDEX. A. Abbot, Rev Abiel, character of Album, preface to an, 214. 'All our righteousnesses are as Animosity among christian sects, Atonement, latest orthodox form B. Beard Rev J. R., notice of the Beza, refuses to extend the right C. Calvin, his testimony to the di- ing, in New England, for the Character, Christian, gradually Christ, not an object of prayer -mem- Church, Christian, its nature Claims upon the pulpit, 49. Clergyman, aged, recollections Covenants of the early N. Eng- Cranmer, his opinion of what is necessary to constitute one a D. Explanatian of Isaiah lxiv. 6, F. Faith and works, 266-in what Fear and love of God, 34, et Death of a daughter, lines on, by Feeble churches, mode of organ- a parent, 274. Deceitfulness of the heart, 172. Diversities of operations,' 241, Divine providence, 11, et seqq. Doctrine of regeneration ex- plained, and objections to the Doctrines of the reformation, 79 Duncan, Rev. Mr, of Baltimore, E. Ecclesiastical affairs in Massa- Ecclesiastical tribunals, 73. of his writings, 129. izing them in Unitarian par- First church in Dedham, char- G. Grace, means of, 241. H. Hall, Robert, account of, by an Harvard University, see Univer- I. precepts and Christian prac- J. Jewish and Christian religions, L. Lavater, J. C., Letter of, to Law, deeds of, what St Paul Life, what? 1-does not consist Luther, his opinion of the Cal- M. Martineau, Harriet, her Tra- 91. -as- Oberlin, Letter of, on the Uni- Officers, church, who they are, Ordinations, Unitarian, 48, 190, Origen pronounces Christ not an Orthodox of the present day, P. Parent, lines of, on the death of |