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have been universally condemned as flagitious and infamous.

"But to tell of their wrongs would be to write a volume; and that such a one as Ezekiel was once commissioned to inscribe. Many of them rest with former generations; and the reference, either to the present or the past, is only desirable, as it may awaken compassion and dispose to justice. At least, let the existing generation seek indemnity for the past by care for the future. If their fathers may have acted beneath the influence of fear and resentment, there is now no place for the action of such passions. These people commend themselves to protection, by their weakness as well as their manliness and generosity. It is high time that they should be allowed to live in peace and security, and in the inviolable possession of their lands, their laws, their liberty. If this may not be in the United States, where can it be? Is

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THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

We have received the first volume of the complete and uniform edition of the Works of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers. This Series is to be published in quarterly duodecimo volumes of about 400 pages, at six shillings each. The first volume is on Natural Theology, which includes the Bridgewater Essay, with extended additions.

Much as our views of church polity differ from those of the Rev. Professor, we feel that the cause of natural and revealed religion has been greatly promoted by his splendid works, and we trust that in the present form they may secure a circulation, and effect a usefulness far more extended than they have already obtained,

Reflections on the Genealogy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; as recorded by St. Matthew and St. Luke, by Daniel Benham. Quarto. The indefatigable author of this critical pamphlet, in order to a complete elucidation of this subject, has prepared for his own use concordances of all the proper names in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, Wetstein's New Testament, and Josephus, which, with notes made in their progress, occupy five large folio and three octavo vo

lumes. Upon the results of this extraordinary preparatory labour his work is based. We have not had an opportunity of judging of its merits, but in this superficial age, the author who would subject himself to such laborious researches may challenge the attention of the learned.

A second edition of Election calmly considered, in a series of Letters, by John Craps.

Practical Reflections on the Second Advent, by Rev. H. White.

The first part of The entire Works of the truly Venerable and Rev. Charles Simeon, M. A. of Cambridge, pp. 336., price 4s. 6d. This work will contain a complete series of all his discourses and skeletons, which being arranged in the order of the books of the Old and New Testament, will form a textual commentary. It will be completed in about 40 parts.

Mr. Robert Mudie has just completed an interesting series of popular volumes, published by Ward and Co., entitled "The Heavens," "The Earth," "The Air," and "The Sea," which are well adapted as presents for young persons.

The English Scriptures, their first

Reception and Effects, including Memorials of Tyndale, Fryth, Coverdale, and Rogers, with an Appendix, by Christopher Anderson of Edinburgh, is a pamphlet replete with biblical facts that cannot fail to be interesting to many readers.

Dr. Beattie's Switzerland, parts 18 and 19, have reached us, which sustain the character we have already given of that work for the fidelity and beauty of its graphic embellishments.

We have received the following single Sermons. The Christian Course, with its Impediments and Incitements, a Sermon delivered to Young People at Craven Chapel, by the Rev. J. Leifchild.

The Funeral Discourse occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Cordelia Townsend, Widow of the late Rev. John Townsend, delivered in Jamaica Row Chapel, Bermondsey, by George Rose.

God the Object of supreme Complacency and Confidence. A Funeral Discourse for Lydia Cope, delivered at the Independent Chapel, Uttoxeter, by John Cooke.

The Providence of God illustrated, by the Author of History in all Ages, is an interesting volume, replete with anecdotes, which will be found peculiarly attractive to the young.

A Voice to the Churches, on the Subject of Prayer Meetings, by Dr. Morison, of Chelsea, deserves extensive circulation amongst our churches.

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Dr. F. A. Cox, of Hackney, has just presented to the public a very useful tract, entitled Suggestions, designed to promote the revival and extension of Religion, founded on Observations made during a Journey in the United States of America, in the Spring and Summer of 1835. The hints it contains to promote personal piety and general usefulness we regard as of great practical value; and as the tract is sold at fourteen shillings a hundred, we hope it

will be widely circulated throughout both sections of the Congregational body.

Part VII. of the Condensed Commentary and Family Exposition of the Holy Bible, which brings this valuable digest of biblical knowledge to the Song of Solomon.

The Recognition Service of the Rev. J. Watson, as Colleague of the Rev. Thomas Lewis, at Union Chapel, Islington.

Dr. Thomas Dick has just published another useful volume, On the mental Illumination and moral Improvement of Mankind; or, an Inquiry into the Means by which a general Diffusion of Knowledge and moral Principle may be promoted. Illustrated with Engravings.

Faith: a Poem. By the Rev. Benj. Luccock, Minister of the English Churches of St. Paul and St. John,

St. Croix.

Heaven Anticipated; or, the present Time influenced by the Prospect of future Fidelity. By Joseph Free

man.

The Mysteries of Providence and the Triumphs of Grace. By the Author of "The Prospect, or Scenes of Real Life."

Christian Consistency; or, the Connection between experimental and practical Religion. Designed for young Christians. By the Rev. G. Mannering, of Holywell Mount Chapel.

The Bible Collectors.

The Rev. Joseph Ketley, the late Pastor of the Unitarian Chapel, Ipswich, has published a discourse, entitled Scriptural Views concerning the great and important Doctrines of the Atonement, delivered on Sunday, December 13, 1835, in consequence of his change of Sentiment upon that Subject.

The Rev. William Davis, of Hastings, has just published a valuable little tractate, entitled The Salvation and Faith of the Christian.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

WORKS AT PRESS, OR IN PROGRESS.

Dr. Pye Smith's Scripture Testimony to the Messiah, and his Discourses on the Sacrifice and Atonement of Christ, having been for some time out of print, the author is engaged as unremitN. S. No. 133.

tingly as his immediate duties allow, in revising those works for new editions.

The venerable Archdeacon Wix has now in the press a Journal of his recent Missionary Labours in Newfoundland; giving a general description of that interesting country, and of the manners, customs, and religious feeling of its inhabitants.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL DISSENTERS.

SPECIAL RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THE

METROPOLIS.

THE New Year was commenced with a series of special services by the Associated Pastors and Churches assembling in Aldermanbury, Barbican, New Broad Street, Gibraltar Chapel, Hare Court, Jewin Street, the Weigh House and White Row, Spitalfields. On the morning of January 1st, prayer meetings were held in the several chapels, and in the evening there was a united service at Broad Street Chapel, at which addresses were delivered by Mr. Harry, on the evils in our churches to be deplored;" by Mr. Wood on "the special remedies that ought to be employed for the correction of these evils;" and by Mr. Townley on "the encouragements we have to expect the divine blessing to give efficiency to such endeavours." On the 2nd, a meeting for prayer was held, and addresses were delivered by Messrs. Tidman and Binney, at Aldermanbury Chapel. The service on the 5th was at the Weigh House, when Mr. Tidman preached on "defective piety," after which Mr. Binney gave an exhortation on the "importance of self-examination." On Wednesday evening the service was held in Jewin Street. Mr. Townley delivered an address to parents, and Mr. Davies gave counsels to the young. On the 7th, the churches met at White Row, Mr. Palmer addressed, "undecided hearers of the gospel;" Mr. Mummery showed "the duties of the church to the unconverted," and Mr. Harry described "the duties of church members to each other."

These services were closed by a communion of the united churches at the Lord's table, in Barbican Chapel on the 11th; Mr. Tidman presided. Messrs. Wood and Townley addressed

* These brethren have published an excellent Address, which we hope to insert in our next number.

the communicants, and Mr. Binney the spectators: prayer and intercession formed a principal part of all the services.

A liberal collection was made after the communion towards the employment of an agent in connection with the Christian Instruction Society, for visiting the ignorant and the wretched in one of the districts of the city. Similar services were held by the associated churches in the Western part of the Metropolis, at Islington and Hackney, but we have not been favoured with the particulars.

THE MONTHLY MEETING LECTURE.

The Rev. George Clayton having been prevented, by the decease of his venerable mother, fulfilling his engagement last month, Dr. Fletcher kindly supplied his place, and Mr. C. will deliver the Lecture on the evening of Tuesday, the 16th instant, at Barbican Chapel.-Subject Christian Zeal combined with Christian Charity. Service to commence at half past six.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN ST.

PETERSBUGRH.

On Lord's Day, Nov. 24th, (O.S.) 1835, the Rev. John Crombie Brown, of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of Highbury College, Middlesex, was publicly recognized as the pastor of the Congregational Church, (composed of English, Scotch, Irish, and American Christians,) assembling for worship in the Moravian Chapel, St. Petersburgh.

There being no other Congregational ministers within reach, the whole of the service devolved on the Rev. Edward Stally brass, of the London Missionary Society, who had arrived in St. Petersburgh on his return to Siberia. The morning service commenced with singing, reading the Scriptures, and prayer; after which Mr. Stallybrass having stated that he possessed documents containing the

call of the church, and Mr. Brown's acceptance of the same, together with their united request that he would undertake the service in which they were then engaged, proceeded to propose a series of questions to Mr. Brown relative to his personal religion, his views of Christian doctrine, the pastoral office, &c. to which appropriate and satisfactory replies were returned. Another hymn having been sung, Mr. S. offered the ordination prayer, accompanied with imposition of hands, in which he was joined by the Rev. F. Nielson, pastor of the Moravian congregation, at the close of which, both he and Mr. N. gave Mr. Brown the right hand of fellowship, as a brother minister. Mr. S. then addressed Mr. Brown from Col. i. 28., after which the newly ordained pastor administered the Lord's Supper to the members of the church, the ministers, and some pious Lutherans who were present. In the evening Mr. Stallybrass preached to the church from 1 Thess. v. 12, 13.

This was the first service of the kind ever witnessed in Russia among Christians of the Congregational order, and it appeared to excite deep interest in the minds of all present. The church was first formed by the Rev. Dr. Henderson in the year 1817. It enjoyed for many years the faithful and successful labours of the Rev. Richard Knill, and it is confidently hoped that the ardent, enlightened, and indefatigable zeal of its present pastor, which has such an extensive sphere of usefulness for its exercise, and which has already been distinguished by signal effects, will, by the divine blessing, be productive of an abundant measure of good.

OPENING OF BELGRAVE CHAPEL,
LEEDS.

Twenty-two years ago the Rev. R. W. Hamilton entered upon his ministry at Albion Chapel, Leeds, which, before his settlement, was on the point of being shut up for want of hearers.

It has pleased God so to bless his labours in that most important town, that his friends have felt it expedient to erect a more eligible and commodious chapel in that part of North Town

End, which is to be called Belgrave Place. Belgrave Chapel is a plain yet elegant building, of brick, and has galleries round the whole of the interior: its fitting up is exceedingly neat, tasteful, and substantial. The pulpit is circular, and surrounded with small columns. The chapel will seat 1800 persons: and underneath are two very spacious school rooms, which will accommodate 600 children. There is to be a very superior organ in the chapel, behind the pulpit, and a small organ is now put up till the other shall be ready. The whole cost of the chapel is £4300, which, with the purchase of the site for £1200, has occasioned an outlay of £5500. The first service in Belgrave Chapel was on Wednesday morning, January 6th. The Rev. R. W. Hamilton conducted the devotional part of the service, and read selected passages of Scripture. The prayer was very impressive. The Rev. R. S. M'All, LL.D. of Manchester, preached from Isa. lx. 13,—“ I will make the place of my feet glorious." “We speak (says the Leeds Mercury) the universal opinion when we say that the discourse was one of transcendent eloquence; it was in fact one of the highest efforts of the human mind we ever heard, -as sublime in its reach of thought as splendid in its rhetoric. The publication of this discourse would be an important service to the cause of religion, as well as an honour to English literature." In the afternoon and evening, the Rev. Robert Newton and the Rev. Dr. Raffles preached eloquent and admirable sermons; the former from Gal. iv. 14, "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world;" and the latter from Isa. xiii. 16." Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation." At the morning and afternoon services the chapel was quite filled, and in the evening it was crowded to overflowing. The collections were most handsome-in the morning 1597. 10s. 4d., in the afternoon 1017. 3s. 7d., and in the evening 1637. Os. Od.-total 4231. 14s. Between the morning and afternoon services about 200 ministers and

gentlemen from every part of Yorkshire and the neighbouring counties dined together in one of the school rooms of the chapel. On Lord's day, January 10th, the public services were continued, Dr. Raffles preaching in the morning and evening, from Psalm Ivii. 7, on the former, and from 1 Tim. i. 15, on the latter occasion: and the Rev. J.Ely, of Salem Chapel, preaching in the afternoon from Haggai ii. 19.— "From this day I will bless you." The congregations on each occasion were very large, that in the evening especially, when the place was literally crammed. The collections on this day too were not unworthy to follow those of Wednesday, amounting as they did to upwards of 3067., forming a grand total of 730l. This sum has been subsequently increased to Eight Hundred Pounds. This splendid liberality (says The Bradford Observer,) while it furnishes a practical evidence of the working of the voluntary principle, is as honourable to the denomination which has made it, as it must be gratifying to the distinguished Minister who has for twenty-two years presided over the congregation for whose worship Belgrave chapel has been erected; and we trust the spirit may extend itself far and wide, till every corner of our beloved land possesses a temple for the worship of the living and true God; and especially, that it may be shown on the occasion of opening the New Chapel in our own town on the 29th instant.

CLAREMONT STREET CHAPEL, NEAR DURHAM PLACE EAST, HACKNEY ROAD. On Tuesday, the 5th January, 1836, the above chapel was opened for the use of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The necessity for a place of worship near the spot has been long felt, although it was but recently that suitable premises could be obtained; when a few gentlemen immediately associated themselves together as Committee, and have fitted up this chapel, which is capable of affording the means of religious instruction to about 300 persons, besides 100 children, at an expenditure of about £120. The services were both suitable and impressive. In the morning the Rev.

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Joseph Fletcher, D.D., preached from the 11th chap. of Ecclesiastes, 1st to 6th verse, and in the evening the Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., preached from the 9th chapter of St John, 35th verse. The other parts of the services were conducted, in the morning by the Rev. W. Hodson, of Zion Chapel, and Dr. Burder; and in the evening by Mr. Bromley, the Rev. G. Corney, and Mr. Sturtevant. The collections were very liberal, amounting to £50, and it is hoped that impressions were produced which will be long felt and remembered.

ERECTION OF A NEW CHAPEL AND SCHOOL AT SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK.

Southwold is a small market and sea-port town on the eastern coast of Suffolk, and, at the last census, contained a population of 2070 persons.

In the records of the burgh it is stated, that the Independent Dissenters assembled in a malt office at Reydon, the adjoining parish, so far back as the year 1680, in order to enjoy the advantage of public worship, unmolested by the municipal authorities.

The Independent Church was first formed in the year 1748, under the pastoral care of the Rev. George Wiggett; but long previously to this many of the pious inhabitants joined the Church of Christ at Wrentham, a village about four miles distant. These, having mixed with other of their neighbours, formed a congregation at Southwold, and converted a fish-office into the present meetinghouse. From the effect of time upon this building, it is deemed advisable no longer to promote its continuance by renewed repairs, but to replace it with a new one.

Preparatory to such a measure, a few friends in the church and congregation, about three years and a half ago, met for the purpose of commencing a subscription towards a building-fund, and at this meeting the sum of £58. 13s. was subscribed. This effort was augmented by occasional donations, small weekly collections, and the produce of a Ladies Working Society, &c. the result of which has been, that at Southwold exclusively,

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