ther, a course of lectures on the principles of Unitarianism has been delivered, as the Pioneer informs us, at Belfast, and at Dublin, which was well attended to its close, and similar lectures are delivering at Holywood and Moneyrea, and are likely to be productive of much good.' The Bible Christian' a monthly publication, of the institution of which we took notice in a former number,* already enjoys, as we are told, a very liberal patronage. All these are encouraging symptoms.

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SCOTLAND. An Annual General Association of the Unitarians of Scotland, for mutual co-operation and 'encouragement,' says the Christian Pioneer, was instituted in the year 1813. Its meetings were continued for various objects till 1824,' when, as it appears, they were discontinued. The August number of the same work informs us that this Association has recently been reorganized. The meeting for this purpose was holden at Glasgow, on the eighteenth of July, and, as it is stated, was 'numerously and respectably attended.' The new Society takes the name of the Scottish Unitarian Christian Association.' The object of the Association is stated in several articles, and corresponds generally with that of other Associations under a similar name. Several Resolutions were passed, ' constituting the laws of the Association,' and making provision for a general correspondence with Unitarians throughout Scotland.'

FRANCE. We have grounds for the belief that pure Christianity is to prevail in France. Not a few

* Number for June.

of the unbelieving classes have long since begun to be weary of scepticism and to look for a religion at once. divine and rational. Many too, among both the Protestants and Catholics, there have for some time been, who, truly religious in their dispositions and liberal in their views, required only to have Unitarianism presented to their minds in its real character, to lead them to adopt its fundamental principles.* These, and other like tendencies, cannot but derive new strength from the late events in France. All christian. sects are now on equal footing, so far as the government is concerned; the press is unshackled; and the general mind has been excited to great activity. This is the state of things in which Unitarian Christianity best flourishes. Besides, the Paris Revue Protestante, which was last year discontinued, has been resumed under favorable auspicies. Five numbers of the new series, beginining with the first month of the present year, are before us, which, we are happy to find, ably and spiritedly inculcate and defend rational, liberal, and serious views on religious subjects. We translate two or three brief paragraphs.

'These are what we deem the primary and fundamental articles of Christian Faith, viz :

1. That Holy Scripture is the source of Christian Doctrine.

2. That God is the Creator of the Universe which he governs by means the most wise, holy, and beneficent.

3. That Jesus Christ is the Saviour of men.

*See Monthly Repository, New Series, Vol. iii, pp. 666, 777.

4. That the soul is immortal, and that its condition, in the future life, will be according to its conduct in this.'

'The true christian does good to all; condemns none for differing from him in opinion; extends the hand of fellowship to every one who receives the revelations of Christ as divine, and who takes the Saviour for his moral guide to immortal life. But propose this to a thoroughly orthodox man, and he will immediately lay before you some thirty or forty articles of faith full of nice definitions, about matters concerning which God has made no communication; and if you refuse to subscribe to them, you are spurned from him as a socinian, a neologue, an infidel, or an atheist. When shall we see better times? When will the standard of Christ be truly significant of holiness, charity, and peace.'

'Calvinism, in Calvin's time, was in advance of the age; but Calvinism, in our day, is far behind it. Calvin, would he himself be a Calvinist now? what man dares answer in the affirmative ?'

This is what is needed; this is what we must endeavor to bring about; complete freedom of inquiry, entire subversion of sectarian authority, in matters of religion. Simplicity in the grounds of faith, reduction of old formularies to a small number of fundamental principles, perfect independence of thought, full liberty of expressing opinions; these objects and such as these, it is our purpose to promote.

SPAIN. Statements made at the late meetings of the B. and F. U. A. in London and Manchester, show

that the spirit of free religious inquiry is beginning to find its way even into Spain. At Gibraltar there is a Unitarian Committee, whose members are active in the cause of liberal Christianity. They have already received from England, and also printed themselves, many tracts, and widely circulated them; some of which they have sent to Greece, Italy, and the north of AfriDr Bowring, in his speech last June, thus speaks of the efforts of one individual :

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‹ There have occurred events in Spain which seem to mark the hand of a particular Providence. That individual (whose name I shall not mention, for the mention of it would embarrass his future operation) who has attempted to introduce Unitarianism into the Spanish dominions, was a member of the Cortes, and was actually on his way to execution when released by the cry of liberty, which for a moment redeemed that country. This individual is the son of one of the most illustrious families in Spain; and after overcoming these and other difficulties, he was chosen to represent in the Cortes one of its most populous provinces. His whole history is one of suffering and of zeal; and so great and so earnest were his exertions, that since the formation of a Committee at Gibraltar, no less than four pamphlets on the subject of Unitarian Christianity have been translated into the Spanish language. The name and influence of the B. and F. U. Association have already surrounded the coasts of the Mediterranean, and an extensive field of usefulness has been created, mainly by the extraordinary exertions of that singular, and valuable man to whom I have alluded.'

UNITARIAN ORDINATION, DEDICATIONS, AND INSTAL

LATION.

Oct. 5. Mr Cazneau Palfrey, from the Cambridge Theological School, ordained as Pastor of the First Unitarian Society in the city of Washington, D. C.

Introductory Prayer, Reading of the Scriptures, and Right Hand of Fellowship, by Mr Goodwin of Concord; Ordaining Prayer, Address to the Society, and Concluding Prayer, by Mr Burnap of "'altimore; Sermon and Charge, by Mr Parkman of Boston.

Oct. 7. The new Church of the First Congregational Society in Taunton, dedicated. Introductory Prayer, by Mr Clarke of Norton; Reading of the Scriptures and Dedicatory Prayer, by Mr Pierpont of Boston; Sermon, by Mr Hamilton, Pastor of the Church; Concluding Prayer, by Mr Hodges of Bridgewater. In the afternoon, above 70 pews were sold at an advance, beyond the appraisement, of more than 700 dollars.

Oct. 13. The edifice recently erected for the Second Congregational Society in Scituate, dedicated. Introductory Prayer and Reading of the Scriptures, by Mr Kent of Duxbury; Dedicatory Prayer, by Dr Kendall of Plymouth; Sermon, by Mr Deane, Pastor of the Church; Concluding Prayer by Mr Brooks of Hingham. The day after the Dedication, all the pews on the floor were sold, and 773 dollars raised above the cost of the house.

Oct. 13. Mr Ebenezer Robinson installed as Minister of the Precinct of Salem and Beverly. Introductory Prayer and Address to the Society, by Mr Sewall of Danvers; Sermon by Mr Bartlett of Marblehead ; Prayer of Installation and Charge, by Mr Loring of Andover; Right hand of Fellowship, by Mr Thayer of Beverly.