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    tlamty , instead of losing its application and importance , is found to be more and more congenial and adapted to man ' s nature and wants . Men have outgrown the other institutions of that period when Christianity appeared , its philosophy , its

    modes of ^ warfare , its policy ,, its public and private economy ; but Christianity has never shrunk as intellect has opened , but has always kept ia advance of men ' s faculties , and unfolded nobler views in proportion as they have ascended . The

    highest powers and affections which our nature has developed , find more than adequate objects in this religion . Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more improved stages of society , to the more delicate sensibilities of refined

    minds , and especially to that dissatisfaction with the present state , which always grows with the growth of our moral powers and affections . As men advance in civilization , th . ey become susceptible of mental sufferings , to which ruder ages are strangers ; and these Christianity is

    fitted to assuage . Imagination and in . tellect become more restless ; and Christianity brings them tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths , the solemn and unbounded prospects which it unfolds . This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than

    that m which it was introduced , to wants of human nature not then developed , seems to me very striking . The religion bears the marks of having come from a Being who perfectly understood the human mind , and had power to provide for

    its progress . This feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy . It was an anticipation of future and distant ages ; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung , where , but in God , can we fiud an explanation of this peculiarity ?"— Pp . 36—38 .

    If we did not feel the hope that every one of our readers will become ( if riot already ) acquainted with this invaluable discourse , we would subjoin the concluding pages : but it will be

    more interesting to them to select for themselves ; and we douht not that the perusal of the whole will contribute to give energy to their faith and fervour to their thankfulness .

    We should now proceed to Professor Norton ' s very able and valuable pampklet ; but as this is less known amon # us , we wish to be somewhat more detailed in our account of it , and will defer our notice to another number . As , however , we are desirous that our readers should be apprized of all the American Unit aria n tracts republished

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    in England , we will subjoin a list of the remainder , in the order in which they have appeared y and this will probably be found complete * which our first , in p . 103 , was not

    Thoughts on Trite and False Religion . By Andrews Norton , Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature in the University of Cambridge , Massaehusets . Reprinted from the American edition , by the Liverpool Unitarian Tract Society , 1822 . Price 6 rf .

    Hints to Unitarians , * From the Christian Disciple , published at Boston , America . Liverpool , 1823 . Price Ad . Consolations of ZJnitarianism ,

    particularly in the Hour of Death * Two Essays from the Unitarian Miscellany , published in Baltimore Liverpool , 1823 . ( Fourth Liverpool Edition , 1825 . ) Prk > e Ad .

    Substitutes for Religion . Extracted from the Christian Disciple . Liverpool , 1824 . Price Ad . A Sermon delivered et the Ordination of the Rev . Ezra Stiles Gannett .

    as Colleague Pastor of the Church of Christy in Federal Street ' , Boston , June 30 , 1824 . By William Ellery Channing , Pastor of the said Church . Liverpool , 1824 . Price 6 d .

    Memoirs of the Rev * J . S . Buckminster , and the Rev . S . C . Thatcher . Reprinted from the Memoirs prefixed to the Sermons of the respective Authors . Liverpool , 1824 . The Duties of Children : A Sermon

    delivered to the Religious Society in Federal Street , Boston . By W . E . Channing , D . D . Reprinted from the fifth American edition . Liverpool , 1825 . -Price 2 d . ; and a liberal allowance made to schools , and to those who buy to give away . *

    Correspondence relative . to the Prospects of Christianity and the Means of promoting its Reception in Fndiq . Cambridge ( U . S . ) University Press . London , 1825 . Reprinted for Charles Fox and Co . Price 3 ^ . 6 rf .

    Three Important Questions Answered , relating to the Christian Name , Character ,, and Hopes * By Henry ^ i i - m — r i - * - ' f ~ * In the imprint it is ss * id to be said by C . Fox and < E 5 o ., 33 , Th readneedle -Street ; and probably all the Liverpoo l reprinted America a publications may be had from Mr . C . Fox * .

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    370 Occasional Notices of American Publications .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/44/