indulge the hope that others will continue to issue the monthly numbers of the Panoplist after the present generation of writers and readers are laid in the dust. But if the affection of our friends should languish, and our prospects should be dark and dubious, we shall be compelled, however reluctantly, to abandon the prosecution of our plans, and to relinquish a work which we honestly believe to be useful to the rising generation, and to the Christian community; a work to the execution of which a regard to pecuniary advantages (or, as we hope, any other unworthy motive) has never prompted us. In this volume, the attention of the American people has been called, more explicitly than at any former period, to the interesting subject of Foreign Missions. Many instances of very exaited beneficence we have had the pleasure to record. The zeal, the unanimity, the activity, and the cheerful offerings of Christians in this cause, are truly admirable; they are worthy of devout acknowledgment, and fervent gratitude; and they should excite every friend of Christ and his church to pray, that the same beneficent spirit may be continued and blessed till idolatry, ignorance, and the evil passions, shall give place to the advancing glories of the millennium. From a large part of the Panoplist having been devoted to the subject of missions, and to some other subjects of a practical nature, it has followed, that less room has been afforded for the plain and important doctrines of the Gospel, than would have been desirable. This deficiency we hope will be supplied hereafter; and we, therefore, cordially invite some of our correspondents to lend their aid, in stating and proving, in a plain, familiar manner, the leading doctrines of Divine Revelation. Boston, May 30, 1812. 1 241 253 554 396 INDEX OF THE ESSAYS, INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. CONTAINED IN ADDRESS to the public THIS VOLUME. -on the subject of Foreign to the churches of New American attempts to extend the Gospel, thoughts on Amusements of mankind, a proof Allegory of depravity 307 Apostasy of our first parents, re- marks on 56 Buchanan, Rev. Dr. speech of, 135 180 Arithmetic applied to moral pur- poses Association of ideas 300 sion to 242 Association, General, of Massa- Cent Societies, thoughts on 560 188 ing of 84 rules of 87 -donations to Chronological Table for 1811 92 573 report of the Commit- Clergy, learned and pious, ne- tee of, on the state of Association, General, of New tee of, on the subject of Conferences, religious, on the Consecration of the Rev. Alex- of Rev John Henry Hobart Correspondents, notices to 48 96, 144, cessity of 3 opposition to 294 93 ib. 304 380 232 Contempt, nature of Asylum for the destitute 556 Corban Society in Boston Atkinson, Rev. Miles, character 147 [240,288,336,384,432,480,528,576 Criminal laws, a proof of deprav- 153 religious opinions 21 69 Cruelty, a proof of depravity 304 Benevolent Society, notice of 374 Bengal, mission in 379 Bethelsdorp, mission at *565 Danish mission in India, notice of 546 Bible Society, British and For- eign, seventh report of 328 375. D. D. 576 480 [423 470 Atwater, Mr. Jeremiah 479 Bible Society, New Jersey 334 Bacon, Hon. Ebenezer 336 Leicester Auxiliary 234 Baden, grand duke of 285 Bristol Auxiliary 276 Barnes, Mrs. Abigail 336 Liverpool Auxiliary 328 Bean, Capt. William C. Edinburgh 276 Bean, Mrs. Mary 576 Hibernian 327 Bedford, Hon. Gunning, Birman empire, a projected mis- Esq. ib. sion to 241 Blake, Mr. Nathan 285 Death of Bougainville, Couut de 336 Death of Moore, Homer, Esq. 285 Bowdoin, Hon. James 240 Mosely, Dr. Thomas ib. Burke, Mrs. widow of the Norris, Mrs. Phebe 192 Owens, Col. Abraham 384 Chamberlain, Mrs. Lucretia 480 Chase, Hon. Samuel 48 Clinton, Ex. George ib. Pinckney, Mrs. Mary 480 96 Craig, Sir James H. 528 Read, Miss Charlotte 240 Cranch, Hon. Richard 240 Crawford, Lt. Gen. Robert 576 Ridgley, Hon. Henry 96 Rodgers, Mrs. Mary 576 Roulstone, Miss Lavinia 240 Rowley, Mr. S. 480 Ruffin, Gen. 96 Deolph, Maj. Ezra 240 Dessessarts, M. Jean C. ib. Shepard, Hon. Amos 480 Simons, Charles Dewar, Drury, Admiral ib. Eaton, Gen. William 48 Slosson, Mrs. Hannah ib. Smith, Col. John 96 Fitzsimmons, Thomas, Esq. 285 Stewart, Lieut. J. 48 Sullivan, Mrs. Martha 192 Suwarrow, Lieut. General 336 Tabeau, Jaques 192 Tarleton, Mr. Elias 336 Thayer, Rev. Elihu, D. D. 576 Townsend, the Marquis 528 Gurley, Rev. John 528 of 240 Hastings, Hon. John Jennings, Lieut. 144 Johnson, Col. Baker 96 Williams, Hon. William 192 Law, Capt. Prentice ib. Wobley, Aghor Lincoln, Rev. Perez 48 Wright, Hon. Joshua G. Deaths in New York of small pox in 1811, at Peacham, (Vt.) of fe- vers at Acworth, (N. H) 576 thentic 96 480 ib. 345,436,529 571 Earthquake at St. Michaels 336 in the U. S. and S. co and Biddeford branch of the 570 302 526 East Guilford, revival of religion in 63 East India Company, settlements 551 Ejection of our first parents from 106 Hopkins, Rev. Samuel, D. D. 191 Elliott, Rev. John, letter from, Emerson, Rev. Mr. character of 558 Evangelical doctrines, tendency of preaching, tendency of 315 Evidences of Divine Revelation. Examination for admission to the Explanation of 1 Cor. 14-16 Foreign Missions, Meeting of the doings of the Board 186 of Foreign Mission Society of Bos. ton and the vicinity 332,427 Installation of Goodrich, Rev. Kidder, Rev. Samuel, letter Labor diminished by the use of Howard and Potemkin 209 Hymns 480,576 recantation of 487 Samuel 94 Griffin, Rev. Edward D., D. D. 143 Kellogg, Rev. Gardner 94 Kellogg, Rev. Elijah 521 King, Rev. Asa ib. Porter, Rev. Experience ib. Lewdness, a proof of depravity 306 New Works 47,94,142,190,236,281, 426 Magdalen Asylum at Edinburgh 374 [335,381,475,525 Bartlett, Rev. John, Mayhew, Mr. Jeremiah, life and Bushnell, Rev Calvin 188 Middlebury College, revival of religion in Ministers of the Gospel, on the private duties of Mission to India, commence- Dow, Rev. Joseph W. 94 ment of |