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    ditlon of the society at Washington has been contemplated with deep interest . By the loss of their esteemed and able minister , they were deprived of an essential element of prosperity , the ad minis- « tration , viz ., of religious ordinances by a settled clergyman . They have exerted themselves to the utmost measure of their

    ability , and they now look to their feilowchmtians for encouragement to persevere . The Committee present their situation to the respectful notice of the Association .

    As has been already suggested , a surprising expression of sentiment has been elicited within the last year in the western part of New York . Mr . Ware preached in Utica , Rochester , Buffalo , Watertown , and other considerable towns , and in each of these places attracted to the subjects of his discourses an interest that has been cherished and diffused since

    his return to his parochial duties . In Rochester a society has been formed , and a gentleman froni this neighbourhood invited to become its pastor . The predisposition to receive our views of Christianity , which has thus been disclosed ,

    was partially produced by the extravagancies in doctrirfe and practice of which the people had been made the witnesses , and sometimes the subjects . No other part of our country at the present moment offers more encouragement to the hopes of the Unitarian Christian .

    In Cincinnati , Ohio , a similar declaration of sentiment , unexpected at this time , has also gratified us . A society has been organized , and if they should secure the services of an acceptable clergyman , will retain the animation that ha 9 distinguished its commencement ,

    while it gains the firmness of more mature age . Scarcely any spot in our republic is more advantageously situated for the diffusion of good influences , as from a central body , than Cincinnati , and we shall watch with the anxiety of earnest hope the fortunes of this society .

    As we return to notice more particularly the interests of this Association , we may not omit the union which has been formed between this and a kindred Society , in the prosecution of an object alike desired by each . The Boston Sunday-School Society , which has already been highly useful through the effects of its

    meetings and its correspondence , was established with the design of publishing juvenile books of a religious or moral character . The utility of such a measure had not been overlooked by this Committee , and they proffered their co-operation in effecting it . Their proposal was accepted , and arrangements were

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    made , according to which a series of juvenile books has been commenced , which , by the purity of their contents , the neatness of their execution , and their low price , invite comparison with aiiy that have been published , and authorize the belief that one of the most urgent want 3 of the community will be supplied . These books bear the imprint of the Boston Sunday-School Society and of the American Unitarian Association .

    A proposition to other Societies to counect themselves with this Association , in a manner which it was thought would be mutually beneficial , though it was not met with the same alacrity , and arrangemeuts have not yet been completed , it is hoped , will not ultimately fail of its purpose . A change has taken place in the government of this Association . The office

    of Foreign Secretary , which was created by an amendment of the constitution on the last anniversary , having remained vacant for some time in consequence of the non-acceptance of the gentleman then elected , has been recently filled by the choice of Rev . Henry Ware , jr ., who had been compelled by the circumstances of ill health and absence to resign his place as one of the Directors . It was with

    sincere grief that the Committee acknowledged the necessity of his withdrawing from an immediate participation in their labours . To no individual is this Association more indebted . While resident abroad , Mr . Ware will possess opportunities of securing correspondents that will essentially aid him in his subsequent duties as Foreigu Secretary . The vacancy in the Board of Directors was filled by the election of Rev . Francis Parkin an .

    The mention of Mr . Ware naturally brings to mind the institution to which , if his health should be restored , he will in future devote his energies . The Theological School at Cambridge merits , both from its design and its present excellent condition , the regard of all who desire that the churches of our land should enjoy the ministrations of enlightened and pious teachers . By a receut increase of instructors and of studies it

    has been enabled to furnish as ample means of improvement as any seminary of the same kind in the United States . Among the instruments of diffusing the knowledge and love of religion , the periodical works patronized by Unitarians hold a high rank . The Christian Examiner , always worthy of praise , has by a new arrangement been rendered a more general , without becoming a less efficient , agent in disseminating truth . Thti Committee deem it proper also t 6

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    Intelligence . —American Unitarian Association , 743

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/71/