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    year 1827 , for the gratuitous ' distribution of Unitarian publications of an approved character . For five years it has gone on silently and unobtrusively in its good work , not forcing its tracts impertinently upon any one , but keeping its depository

    well stored atnjrntime ^™ for -an y-whQ may wish to receive them . As might be expected , the calls upon it are frequent , and the Society has been gradually enlarging its resources , and extending its operations . During the last year it has distributed pamphlets to the amount of 115 , 85 dollars , and 4000 in number . The whole

    number of tracts purchased and distributed since its formation is 25 , 000 , the cost of which has been between 800 and 900 dollars . The number of its members is now 150 , pririci * pally young men . It ought to be much larger , and as the term of membership is a subscription of but one dollar , \ ve recommend to the friends of religious truth to enrol their names on its list of subscribers .

    It behoves us all , in this and in every other fair and honourable way , to be ready to distribute , willing to communicate of the good word of faith , ' the truth as it is in Jesus . ' The ministry at large for the poor of Boston , established under the direction of the Executive Committee ,

    and supported by the annual subscriptions of ladies belonging to the several Unitarian congregations in the city , has been found during the past , as well as in previous years , to be a great blessing to those for whose moral and spiritual improvement it was instituted ; and it has in various incidental ways proved the

    instrument of much good . The semi-annual reports of Dr . Tuckerman have not only attracted unusual attention in this community to the general subject of pauperism , and impressed a deep sense of the religious wants of the poor , and of the duties of the more favoured classes in relation to them , but have led to the adoption of specific measures in

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    reference to that very important and interesting class , the exposed children and youth of the city . It is gratifying , also , to learn that the success of this experiment in preaching the gospel to the poor has excited considerable interest elsewhere , and in -some ^ laces ^ eiLtO ^ hkj ^^ similar plan for their religious

    instruction * . In the city of New York , an attempt has been made by one of the Unitarian ministers to excite an in * terest in this subject . By his influence , the eight Reports of Dr . Tuckerman have been reprinted , and circulated gratis . No movement , however , has yet been made to

    establish a minister at large . It is confidently Jhoped , that ere long the apathy of that great city will Be disturbed—a city where such a ministry as this is peculiarly needed , and Where , if entrusted to proper hands , it would be productive of the most beneficial results . —

    In his last Report , which has just issued from the press , Dr . Tuckerman states that , during the last half year , his visits have been 1321 , which have been divided among 415 families . ? Six , besides myself , ' he tells us , ' are " now employed wholly as ministers of the poor in this city ; and not less active than either of us

    in this field of duty , is Mr . Taylor , the seamen ' s preacher and friend . We have good reason , therefore ^ to believe that this ministry will be one of our permanent institutions . It has conduced to very great good , ' and if fit instruments shall be obtained for it , and it shall be wisely conducted , it will never want either public approbation or patronage . '

    During the past year some small appropriations have been made for the support of Unitarian preaching in Maine , Connecticut , and New York , A much larger sum might have been advantageously expended , " * The reader ia referred to ( he Report of the Foreign Secretary for an account of tho appointment of a City Missionary in London .

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    £ 54 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/14/