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      Generally , as the writings of this able matt are now known to our readers , we need say no more in praise o £ this admirable charge than that it was as replete with sound sense , as vigorous , and as

      eloquent , as the published writings of the author , and , from the nature of its topics , more remarkable for moral and devotional interest . We felt ; in hearing it that a good man never can do himself full jqstice , when he appears only in the militant attitude of controversy .

      We | iave much pleasure in announcing that thb whole service will shortly appear in print . ¦

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      Third Report of the Executive Comfnittee of the American Unitarian Association , read and accepted at the Annual Meeting held at Boston , 4 % 27 , 1828 . The third annual Report , which the ExecutiveCommittee now make to the members of the American Unitarian

      Association will contain a brief notice of circumstances which are thought to be peculiarly interesting through their connexion with the purposes for which the Association was formed . These purpose * , we would repeat , are the diffusion of religious truth and the increase of true religion .

      Our objects , therefore , are most effectually secured when the mind is freed from error , and the heart is sanctified by love , when the life of the soul is cherished by the influences that come from God . But of this inward experience of Christianity we do not think ourselves authorized to

      speak . The kingdom of God , that h within us , cometh not with observation . It is the more suitable office of those who conduct the affairs of this Association , to note the signs of the times , as they appear in the moral world , and as far as they may , to supply the wants or spread the encouragement indicated by

      these signs . Ail which the ; Committee will attempt at this time , is to give a sketch of their operatipna the paat year , and to offer a few remarks grounded on a careful observation of occurrences during thia period . The experience of the last , as of the pre-

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      vjou 9 , year , has shewn that ^ % the ^ feidht at least , this Association M $ m SrlppM its objects by the putffic&jcta M iftdE Since , the last anniversary ped WI 8 &J&yik been printed , a less number than it was noped woug have be * n ; ispil , Mt ^ a * great as the difficulty ofobtaining &v $ fr as they judged proper for the series ^ would permit . Of these ten , six were never before printed , four of which were

      written expressly for the Association , one was taken from an English publication , two others had previously had a very limited circulation , and one , though it had been widely distributed ( in more than one edition ) , was so repeatedly in * .

      quired for , that the Committee thought themselves justified in adopting it into the number of their publications . The demand for tracts of a more elementary kind and of a yet cheaper price than those which were comprised in the firs * series , induced the Committee to

      commence a second , which they apprehend will be found to meet the exigencies of the community in these respects . The number of new tracts published within the twelve months past is 49 , 000 , besides which new editions of five of the former tracts have been printed , to the amount of 17 , 000 , and four Reports of the Boston , Missionary , or minister at large ,

      amounting to 5 , 300 , and 3 , 000 copies of the Annual Report , making a sum total of 74 , 300 tracts issued within the last year . The whole number issued since the commencement of our operations is scarcely leys than 143 , 000 , none of which , it should be remembered , contain less than

      12 pages , excepting two of Dr . , Tuckermari ' 8 Reports , and most of them are much larger , so that the average of the whole is 26 pages , making more than three million and a half pages published by the Association . In regard to these tracts the Committee have sufficient evU

      dence that they are valued by the com * mumty , and have been productive of great good . They will only extract one passage from a letter lately received : " There is , " says the writer , " an iacreasing taste for reading ; and I repeat it , your excellent tracts have done much

      to produce this , and carry comfort and conviction to the inquiring mind . Were it necessary , I could enumerate many instances of their blessed effecte . Several familiea in my neighbourhood ace furnished with the series , and in the hours of quiet and leisure they are read over aud over again . " The Committee have appropriated a part of the funds to the support of Mb-

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      Sa If or d Anniversary . The anniversary of the opening of the Unitarian meeting . house , Green Gate , Salford , will be held on Sunday and Monday the 28 th and 29 th iustant . The Rev . H . Montgomery , of Belfast , has engaged to preach on the occasion .

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      FOUEIGN .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 865, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/65/