The extraordinary and unexpected encouragement, afforded to the Unitarian Miscellany, has obliged the managers to resolve on printing a second edition of the first volume. Several of the first numbers are already reprinted. The character of the supporters of this work, must be highly gratifying to its immediate friends and patrons. It circulates throughout every part of the Union, and comprehends among its subscribers an unusual number of the most learned, intelligent, and distinguished citizens of the country, both in public and private capacities. It thus becomes an instrument of communicating what we conceive to be just religious sentiments, to that portion of society, which will be likely to produce the widest and strongest influence on the community at large. It cannot fail, also, to be a source of great joy to the society, that opinions and views, for the advancement of which we have united our humble efforts, and which we deem of vital importance, as they relate both to our comfort and improvement in this world, and to our everlasting welfare, are becoming daily better understood and more widely and rapidly embraced. In the extensive correspondence, which has been occasioned in the management of the concerns of the society, a strong and decided impression has been made on the minds of the managers, that the chief cause of infidelity in this country, has been the teaching, as doctrines of christianity, those corruptions, which have been incorporated with it in the articles of churches, and the decrees of councils. In this advanced stage of intellectual improvement, it is not surprising, that the minds of most men should revolt at propositions, professing to be a revelation from heaven, which are contradictory in themselves, and in compatible with the just government and paternal character of God. Men are not averse to the belief, that God has made known to his rational creatures, his will in relation to their moral conduct, and their prospects in a future state of immortality; nor do they revolt at the gospel evidences of the divine mission of Jesus of Nazareth, his holy messenger; but only at the perverse interpretations and inconsistent doctrines, which these evidences have been supposed to maintain, and which have diminished their force and weakened their efficacy. Is it not, then, the duty of this society, as christians, to extend, as diffusely as their means will admit, such works as will carry on that reformation, which commenced with Luther and Calvin, with Zuinglius and Erasmus, and which, we trust in God, will result in the complete restoration of the religion of Jesus Christ? By order of the managers, HENRY PAYSON, Prest. After the reading of the report, the society proceeded to elect the following managers for the ensuing year, HENRY PAYSON, President. CHARLES H. APPLETON, Secretary. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, Librarian. HON. THEODORICK BLAND, ISAAO PHILLIPS, Jun. REV. JARED SPARKS, HUGH YOUNG, ABRAHAM PYKE, JOHN HASTINGS, SAMUEL G. HYDE, DANIEL KRABER, JUN. The Rev. Robert Little has been chosen pastor of the Unitarian Society in Washington City. A handsome and commodious house for public worship, is now building by the society, and will be completed in the spring. AT THE BOOKSTORES OF F. LUCAS, Jr. & N. G. MAXWELL, A SERMON Delivered Dec. 18, 1821, at the Ordination of the REV. WM. WARE, TO THE PASTORAL CHARGE OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN NEW YORK, By his Father, HENRY WARE, D. D. Hollis Professor of Divinity in the University in Cambridge, Mass. TOGETHER WITH THE CHARGE AND RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP. N. G. MAXWELL, No. 140 Market street, Has also for Sale. Worcester's Bible News. Price 75 eents. Address to Trinitarian Clergymen. Price 123 cents, Locke on the Reasonableness of Christianity. Price 1 dollar. -'s General View of Doctrines of Christianity. Price 1 dollar. |