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Channing's Ordination Sermon,- Farley's Sermon on a

Business Life,- Whitney's Sermon on the Death of

Little Children,- Richardson's Farewell Discourses,-

Bellows's Ordination Sermon, Gannett's Sermon on

the Good Judge, -Briggs's Convention Discourse,

Giles's Sermon on the Guilt of Contempt,-Waterston's

Dedication Sermon ; Sedgwick's Discourse at Sche-

nectady, Sumner's Address at Amherst,— Holmes's

Introductory Lecture,

INTELLIGENCE.

Religious Intelligence. - Ecclesiastical Record, Memo-

rial to Congress on the War, - Periodical Journals, —

Great Britain and Ireland, - Dedications, - Installa-

tion,

Obituary. Hon. Alexander H. Everett, Ezra Green,

Rev. James Kay, - Hon. Artemas Ward,

Rev. Daniel M. Stearns,

M. D.,

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CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

The Past, the Present, and the Future.

Carey.

II. REV. SAMUEL RIPLEY .

III. THE CLAIMS OF THE MINISTRY

IV. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

1. The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England,

with a Treatise on the Popular Progress in English

History. By John Forster.

2. The Protector: a Vindication. By J. H. Merle

d'Aubigné.

3. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Govern-

or of Nottingham Castle and Town, Representative

of the County of Nottingham in the Long Parliament,

etc. Written by his Widow Lucy. From the orig-

inal Manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson. To

which is prefixed, The Life of Mrs. Hutchinson, writ-

ten by herself.

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4. History of the Counter-Revolution in England, for

the Reëstablishment of Popery, under Charles II. and

James II. By Armand Carrel. History of the

Reign of James II. By the Right Hon. C. J. Fox.

- TORREY'S NE-

V. CHASE'S APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS.

ANDER

1. The Work claiming to be the Constitutions of the

Holy Apostles, including the Canons; Whiston's Ver-

sion, revised from the Greek; with a Prize Essay, at

the University of Bonn, upon their Origin and Con-

tents; translated from the German, by Irah Chase.

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church;

from the German of Dr. Augustus Neander. Trans-

lated from the First, revised and altered throughout

according to the Second Edition. By Joseph Torrey.

VI. ITALY AND PIUS THE NINTH

1. Italy General Views of its History and Literature

in Reference to its Present State. By L. Mariotti.

176

184

205

223

236

2. Dublin Review, Vol. XVIII., Article VIII. The

Italian Insurrection and Mr. Mazzini.

3. Facts and Figures from Italy. By Don Jeremy Sa-

vonarola.

4. Italy, Past and Present. By L. Mariotti.

VII. HEDGE'S PROSE-WRITERS OF GERMANY

Prose-Writers of Germany. By Frederic H. Hedge.

VIII. PRISON DISCIPLINE

Prison Discipline in America. By Francis C. Gray.

IX. SERMONS ON CHRISTIAN COMMUNION

Sermons on Christian Communion, designed to promote

the Growth of the Religious Affections. By Living

Ministers. Edited by T. R. Sullivan.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Stallo's General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature,

Revolutionary Services, etc., of Gen. William Hull,

Lee's Naomi,

Lowell's Poems, Second Series,

Gilman's Sibyl,

Barry's History of Framingham,

Read's Dramatic Poems,

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307

308

309

310

310

311

Robbins's Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates,- Boker's
Lesson of Life, etc., Gray's Teacher's New Year's
Present, Enfield's Prayers, - Ware's Progress of
the Christian Life,- Rainbows for Children,
Willson's Church Record, Wayland's Sermons on Du-
ty of Obedience to the Civil Magistrate, - Heywood's
Tribute to the Memory of S. S. Goodwin, Clarke's
Dedication Sermon, Fox's Dedication Sermon,-
Ellis's Discourse on Hon. J. Lyman,- Livermore's
Sermon on the Four Anniversaries, Allen's Dis-
course on Death of Hon. J. Fairfield, — Burnap's Dis-
course at Baltimore; — Parker's Letter on Slavery, -
Tilden's Address on War, Haskell's Address and
Dix's Poem before the Mercantile Library Association,
Shackford's Lecture on War with Mexico,

Religious Intelligence.

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312

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315

319

versalist Denomination, Ecclesiastical Architecture,

Relief of the Poor, Ordinations and Installations,

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. THOMAS SHEPARD, AND THE EARLY FATHERS OF NEW

ENGLAND.

III.

Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England. Vol. I._Life

of John Cotton. By A. W. McClure. Vol. II. Lives

of John Wilson, John Norton, and John Davenport. By

A. W. McClure. Vol. III. Life of John Eliot. By
Nehemiah Adams. Vol. IV. Life of Thomas Shep-
ard. By J. A. Albro.

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321

356

II. INDUCTION OF CHRIST'S NATURE FROM THE UNIVERSE 344

LEAGUE OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD

First Quarterly Report of the Corresponding Secretary of

the British Branch of the League of Universal Brother-

hood. Read by Elihu Burritt.

IV. JONATHAN EDWARDS

1. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A. M. With an

Essay on his Genius and Writings. By Henry Rog-

ers; and a Memoir, by Sereno E. Dwight.

367

2. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New

England, etc. By Charles Chauncy.

V. THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN .

386

A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine.

By Thomas Whittemore.

VI. THE PISCATAQUA ASSOCIATION OF MINISTERS

403

1. Prayer-Book, for the Use of Families; prepared by the

Association of Ministers on Piscataqua River, etc.

2. The Piscataqua Evangelical Magazine for 1805.

VII. CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT MISSIONS

416

1. Oregon Missions, and Travels over the Rocky Moun-

tains, in 1845, 46. By Father P. J. De Smet.

2. The United States Catholic Magazine, and Monthly

Review, etc.

3. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich

Islands, etc. By Hiram Bingham.

4. Memoir of William G. Crocker, late Missionary in

West Africa, etc. By R. B. Medbery.

VIII.

5. Memoir of Sarah B. Judson, etc. By "Fanny For-

A Discourse on the Life and Character of Rev. Jason

Whitman, etc. By Theodore H. Dorr.

IX. BLINDNESS AND IDIOCY

1. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Per-

kins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the

Blind.

2. A Blind Man's Offering. By B. B. Bowen.

3. Treatment and Cure of Crétins and Idiots, etc. By

Buckminster Brown.

4. Report of the Commission on Idiocy, etc., to the Gov-

ernor of Massachusetts.

X. WHITWELL'S TRANSLATION OF ROMANS

A Translation of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, with an

Introduction and Notes. By William A. Whitwell.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Christian Views, or Discourses, etc.,

448

458

463

Sparks's American Biography, Vols. XIV. and XV., 464

Curtis's Treatise on Law of Copyright,

Turner's Biographical Notices,-D'Israeli's Talmudic

Maxims,

464

465

Chapin's Duties of Young Women, - Chapin's Crown

of Thorns,

465

467

467

Chickering's Immigration into the United States,

Der Deutsche Kirchenfreund,

Ware's Aurelian, Follen's Birthday, Hours for

Heaven, —Channing's Self-Culture, Richter's Rem-
iniscences, Congregational Singing Book, The
Two New Scholars, etc.,

Allen's-Hosmer's-Waterston's

Discourses Everett's Eulogy

Adams,

Adam's Dedication Sermon, - Parker's Sermon on Sun-

day, Weiss's Ordination Sermon,

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Peabody's Ser-

473

mon to the Young, - Clarke's Dedication Discourse,
-Hall's Discourse on H. Wheaton,

Religious Intelligence. Ecclesiastical Record, Dedi-

cations, Ordinations and Installations,

Obituary.

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475

William C. Shaw, - Hon. Henry Wheaton, 477

Dr. Chase's Letter to the Editors,