Zion, and who desire that many should come to her solemn feasts, to join with us in a devout prayer that a blessing may attend our humble efforts to promote charity, righteousness and truth, and to spread the savour of the knowledge of Christ.

At the late Annual Meeting of the society they chose for their officers, the ensuing year,

Hon. Benjamin Pickman, jr. President, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Gore, who resigned the office, by reason of ill health.

Rev. Ezra Ripley, D. D. V. Pres.
Rev. Samuel Ripley, Cor. & Rec. Sec.
Mr. Josiah Bridge, Treasurer.
Rev. Francis Parkman, V. Treasurer.
TRUSTEES.
Rev. Aaron Bancroft, D. D.
Hon. Joseph Allen

Parish in Boston From Ladies of Rev. Mr. Lowell's Parish in Boston

$184 92

Rev. John Foster, D. D.

From Ladies of the North Church in Salem

Collection at the Semi annual Meeting, Boston

34 50

In conclusion the Trustees express their confident hope that their association will meet general encouragement. They invite the members to disseminate a correct knowledge of our course of measures. Tell the inquiring philanthropist, who wishes for the progress of religion, that we do not intend to scatter the spiritual seed in the wilderness and forsake it to perish for want of culture. Tell him that we tenderly watch its growth and cease not our exertions till it gives a far promise of coming to maturity. Tell him that in the portion of the vineyard we attempt to cultivate we are resolved to employ a constant labourer, to prevent the growth oftares. We ask all who love the ways of

Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, D. D.
Breck Parkman, Esq.

Rev. Isaac Allen. :
John Richardson, Esq.
Rev. Charles Lowell.
Ichabod Tucker, Esq.

The society, in order to increase their usefulness, unanimously voted at the late Annual Meeting, to extend their limits, and solicit the aid and encouragement of those, disposed to promote its benevolent objects, in all parts of the state. They are there. fore now a State Society, whose Annual Meeting will be holden in Boston, on the first Thursday in October. Rev. Jonathan Osgood of Gardner, is the first, and the Rev. John Pierce of Brookline, the second preacher.

PEACE SOCIETY AT LONDON.

At a meeting held at Plough Court, Lombard-street, London, June 14th, 1816, for the formation of a society for the promotion of "Permanent and Universal Peace"-It was resolved,

1. That the society be formed, and be designated "The Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace."

2 That the object of this society be to print and circulate Tracts, and diffuse information tending to shew,

4. That the society trusts, the general prevalence of erroneous sentiments on the subject of War, instead of operating as a discouragement to its friends, will rather stimulate them to proportion their efforts to the obstacles they may have to encounter; and that they will be animated to look forward to a period "when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

5. That in the choice of Officers for carrying the views of this Society into effect, those of every religious denomination will be acceptable.

6. That a general meeting be held once in the year, at such time and place as the Committee shall fix, to receive their report, and to attend to such other business as may come before it

7. All subscribers of 10s. 6d. and upwards annually, will be entitled to receive half the amount of their subscriptions in tracts, during the year in which they subscribe. Subscriptions will be received by W. ALLEN, Plough-Court, Lombard-street, London, or any other of the Committee.

8. That the following persons be a Committee, with power to add to their number:

William Allen,

Richard Dykes Alexander, Robert Lucas Chance, Thomas Clarkson,

John Clarkson,

William Crawford,

Charles Stokes Dudley,
Rev. Thomas Harper,
Robert Marsden,

Joseph Tregelles Price,
Evan Rees,
John Roberts,
John Scott,
Frederick Smith,
Thomas Sturge,

Rev. William Stevenson, Esq'rs. Address of the Society for the promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace.

They who have duly appreciated the best interests of mankind, have always considered War as one of the greatest scourges to which the human race is liable. If the mere report of the miseries and the train of mora! evils, which it brings upon our fellow creatures causes the tear of sympathy to flow, the lover of his species, who has been an eye-witness of the scenes, which, within these few years, have been exhibited on the Theatre of War, must have been struck with sensations of horror.

From a conviction that many who deplore the calamities of War, have regarded it as a necessary evil, and have not sufficiently considered how far, under any circumstances. it is reconcilable with the principles of the Christian religion, a society has been formed, whose sole object will be to print and cireulate tracts, and diffuse information, calculated to excite the attention, not only of their fellow countrymen, but of real Christians and philanthropists in every part of the world, to this most momentous subject.

They who are influenced merely by the common feelings of humanity, would rejoice, if it could be proved to be possible to avoid War; but it becomes those, in an especial manner, who profess themselves to be the followers of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, to consider, whether War in any shape, or upon any account, can be justified upon Christian principles. What is the tendency of the Gospel dispensation ?-To promote peace on earth and good will towards men. What was the farewell legacy of our blessed Saviour to his disciples ?--Peace. What his last command ?To love one another. What his last prayer?-For his enemies.

The Society for the Promotion of

Permanent and Universal Peace, in announcing themselves to the world, think it their duty to state most distinctly, that they are principled against all War, upon any pretence, and that they have not been led to the work, either by political considerations, or by party spirit, but by a persuasion, that the united efforts of Christians of every denomination, in this important cause, will greatly tend to promote the happiness of mankind, and the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom.

After so many years of bloodshed, the time has at length arrived, when great numbers of different religious persuasions, in this Country, on the Continent of Europe, and in North America, are decided in the opinion, that War cannot be justified upon Christian principles, and others are beginning, on the same grounds, to question its lawfulness; it is to assist this inquiry, and to increase the disposition for it, that the present Society

has been formed, and as the circulation of Tracts in this Country, as well as the translation of them into Foreign Languages, must be attended with expense, the society solicits subscrip; tions from those who may be disposed to favour the work, and who, of course, will be entitled to an Annual Report.

In conclusion, the society trusts, that the general prevalence of errone. ous opinions on the subject of War, instead of operating as a discourage ment to its friends, will rather stimulate them to proportion their efforts to the obstacles they may have to encounter, and that they will be animated to look forward to a period, when "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Every annual subscriber of 10s. 6d. and upwards, may, within the year, receive in return, Tracts to the amount of one half of his subscription.

Subscriptions received by the members of the Committee, or by JOHN CLARKSON, Esq. Treasurer, No. 16, Earl-street, Blackfriars, London, where all the meetings are held, and where all communications for the society may be addressed.

ROBERT MARSDEN,
Chairman of the Committee.
London, Jan. 9, 1817.

N. B When this address was published, Thomas Furley Foster, and Benjamin Foster, Esq'rs. had been added to the Committee.

SOCIETY'S TRACTS.

No. 1. A Solemn Review of the Cus tom of War, price 2d

No. 2. War inconsistent with the Doctrine and Example of Jesus Christ, by John Scott, Esq.

No. 3. An Essay on the Doctrines and Practice of the early Christiano as relates to War, by Thomas Clarkson, Esq. M A.

Preparing for the Press

No 4. Extracts from Erasmus.*

Sold by John Hatchard, Piccadilly, Bookseller to the society, and by all other Booksellers

A letter was received from the society in London accompanying the Address, and also copies of the Tracts, published by the society. The official letter will appear in the Friend of

Peace No X. in the course of the

present month. The following extracts are from a private letter from William Allen, one of the Committee mittee of the British and Foreign of the Peace Society, and of the ComSchool Society. He is also one of the three Friends who had the interview with the Emperor Alexander in London.

"I shall be glad to hear that the different Peace Societies act in concert on a regularly organized plan: We proceed in this way ;—we endeavour to get persons who will act as correspondents in the different parts of Great Britain. To these we send the Tracts as they are published-if the correspondent likes the Tract he has only to ask whether three or four of his friends will not contribute a few shillings each; and when this is done he writes to London for 100. By this means a wide circulation is insured at little or no expense to the Committee

"This is the critical moment: it is impossible to say how long the free intercourse with all the world may remain uninterrupted,—and I think no

*This Tract has since been published, and a copy of it accompanied the Letter and Address.

time should be lost in translating the Solemn Review into French and German. We ought to try to get correspondents in those countries. I intend to try what can be done in my journey through France."

"The British and Foreign School Society continues to flourish, and the system is spreading all over the world. This is one of the great features of the present day; for we shall in vain multiply Bibles, if we do not give the great mass of the people the means of reading them. As the poor in every country form the great majority, the happiness of every individual in a state is involved in the degree of morality and virtue which exists in that class. If they were sufficiently enlightened, where could soldiers be procured for the carrying on of war? Deeply impressed with this subject, I have ever since the year 1808, devoted a large portion of my time and attention to the promotion of the British system of education for the poor."

AMONG the many societies which exist at the present day, the Fragment Society, from the real good it produces. is worthy a conspicuous place. Although its duties frequently require great sacrifice of personal case and convenience in discovering the abodes of want and sickness, in administering comfort to the afflicted, and a supply to the needy, we are fully compensated in the belief, that our labours are not in vain. We have had the satisfaction not only to see the naked clothed and the sick made comfortable; but we have evidence to believe, that our ministrations have given not only temporal relief, but have also been attended with spiritual good; and among the rewards we experience, we, by no means lightly estimate those expressions of gratitude we sometimes witness, which are the overflowing of a heart too full for utterance. Besides distributing the annual subscriptions, the society has been a channel through which many private charities have reached the distressed.

Among the many donations of the last year, the receipts of which we gratefully acknowledge, we cannot but particularly mention a number of

Errata. In the last No. p. 306, 5th line from the bottom, for Corinthians read Christians.