6 usefulness; your exertions will not be wanting to make it even ten times more efficacious than at present. To use the words of an eloquent advocate for Domestic Missions, among our Transatlantic brethren, and with which I shall conclude; Of all ministries, the Domestic is that which goes to men's homes and their hearts,which looks for the wretched and the lost,—and which not merely calls but seeks; many have been found in their sunless lairs,-many in the pangs of unhoping poverty, in the madness of forlorn ruin,-many starving and houseless-outcast from the good, and with no pity from those as bad as themselves; many in the pangs of death, who long for consolation as the heart panteth for the water brooks;-many of the virtuous sitting low in uncomplaining resignation.-Many of all these have been discovered in the wilderness of modern society, by researches of domestic ministers, who have brought light to their dwellings, and salvation to their souls; confidence to the weak in heart, and strength to those who are ready to perish! Christ's spirit and Christ's peace be on their labours." Heartily do we respond to this prayer. But whilst we wish success to the Birmingham Unitarian Domestic Mission Society, as well as to every kindred association, we trust that these institutions will not widen the line of separation between various classes of people; we hope that ministers of our congregations in the towns where Domestic Missions have been founded, will not leave the care of the poor entirely to their superintendence. We should most seriously deprecate any institution which had the tendency of lessening the number and attendance of the poor at our chapels. There are too few of them already. We cannot regard as a truly Christian congregation, any assembly in which the poor are not visible; are not studiously cared for; and we confess our fears that something of this kind may result from Domestic Missions, unless the evil be seen and guarded against. The Eternity of God considered, in relation to the course of Christian Knowledge and Virtue; a Sermon, preached at Exeter 1842, by John Kentish. Bristol, Philp & Evans ; Exeter, Welsford; Birmingham, Belcher & Son; London, Green & Mardon. THIS highly interesting discourse, preached on a most interesting occasion, the Jubilee of the Western Unitarian Society, is worthy of the subject chosen by the excellent preacher, and admirably adapted to the peculiar circumstances under which it was delivered. Amply will it repay perusal; cheering, hopeful, and consolatory are the views displayed in it. The "Sketch of the History of the origin and progress of the Western Unitarian Society," which is appended, as well as the other notes and documents, comprise much valuable information. The Constraining Love of Christ; a Sermon preached before the Provincial Meeting of Presbyterian Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire, in Paradise Street Chapel, Liverpool, June 22. 1843, by Franklin Howorth. London, J. Green; Manchester, Forrest; Bury, Vickerman. WE would such sermons as this were more often preached before Presbyterian ministers! Calvinism would then disappear before "the constraining love of Christ." The Presbyterianism, in the present instance, however, is but nominal, and the preacher is a Christian Unitarian. If the Presbyterianism of the title-page be a misnomer, most assuredly the distinctive title is not so; the discourse is strictly accordant. The characteristic principle of the Gospel, LOVE, is magnified and illustrated; the spirit of self-sacrifice, of labour for others, for the sinner, the masses, the whole world, is beautifully and persuasively unfolded. Truths are uttered in the spirit of Christian benevolence which all our ministers, ay, and all our people too, ought to ponder; and having duly thought upon, to go out in action, embodying in their lives and preaching their words and deeds. One extract we must give; it will induce all to pur chase this truly Christian sermon, and, happily, its price should ensure its wide-spread circulation. "The prevalence of sin in every rank and calling of life, the sensuality and selfishness of men in their ten thousand forms of grossness and superficial refinement, and the innumerable miseries resulting thence, are such as to bewilder the mind, to overwhelm the heart. The physical, the political, the social, the moral, the spiritual evils that abound, and which manifest themselves in wide-spread squalidness, destitution, and disease, in injustice and robbery, in fraud and oppression, in gross ignorance and intemperance, in lying and blasphemy, and every abomination of wickedness, are such as to demand the most serious, earnest, and prayerful efforts and sacrifices on the part of all those whom the love of Christ constraineth. Now, as it would be impossible for the same individuals to labour successfully in all the varied fields of ignorance, and want, and crime, and misery that society presents, it is the part of wisdom for each class and each individual to mark out the sphere best suited for the successful application of the talents possessed. And where the love of Christ constraineth ; where there is a soul-absorbing purpose to work with God and Christ for the good of man, there need be little apprehension but a sphere will be found, and good will be effected. What anxious plannings, and what unremitting labour in the wide field of human ignorance, and guilt, and suffering will be ours, my brethren, when the object of the Saviour's death is answered in us, and we live not to ourselves but unto him! Then will the love of Christ constrain us in the mode of the disposing of our time, our talents, our substance, of all we are, and all we possess, and make us ready to offer up the dearest relationships of affection rather than desert him, and to lay down our lives for the brethren. The followers of a crucified Saviour are not to live unto themselves. The cross of Calvary stands an eternal rebuke of all self-seeking. It is the eternal triumph over self -the essence of all sin; it is the awful, but splendid expounder of the philosophy of suffering benevolence; it is the combined radiance of unutterable divine and human love. And all the followers of the cross must be baptized with its spirit. Their great aim must be, at any cost, to effect the redemption of souls. To them to live must be Christ; not an occasional thought, but their life must be Christ, its purposes, its energies, its all. Their bodies are presented a living sacrifice; their souls are devoted in glowing love to Christ; and the highest felicity they can enjoy is, to labour for the extension of his kingdom, and to win souls to their Saviour. The obscurest retreats of sin and suffering they penetrate, to convey the glad tidings of salvation. To instruct the ignorant, to reclaim the vicious, to guide the young, to bring the heaven of Christian holiness and love into the bosom blasted by the raging fires of licentiousness and hate, to spread the sweet, hallowing, and benign reign of Christ over these scenes of vice and woe, and convert the howling wilderness into a paradise, is their fixed and glowing purpose; and difficulties, persecutions, and martyrdoms cannot deter them; they are followers of the cross, and of the resurrec tion." MONTHLY RECORD. MANCHESTER UNITARIAN VILLAGE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.The Nineteenth Report of this useful institution was read at the annual meeting held in the school-room, Lower Mosely Street, Manchester, May 22. the Rev. W. Gaskell, M.A. in the chair. At Oldham, the state and prospects of the congregation are better than they have been since the re-opening of the chapel: the Sunday school is well attended, and is well conducted. At Newchurch, Padiham, and Rawtonstall, the regular, steady, and Christian conduct of the people, their attendance on public worship, and especially the attention which they pay to the Sunday Schools, is testified by one of their most exemplary and faithful religious instructors, Mr John Ashworth. In Derbyshire, the exertions of the missionary Mr Shenton are great and indefatigable. At Flagg, Sheldon, Ashford, Stony Middleton, Bradwell, and Great Hucklow, Mr Shenton preaches from time to time, and in all good is manifestly doing; and more im portant results still may naturally be looked for, if persevering, faithful labours are continued. The efforts put forth by this association prove the benefits that may be diffused even by comparatively small means, its income the last year being £137. Dr DEWEY.-Our friends in connection with several of the London Unitarian congregations, as also those of Bristol, Birmingham, and Liverpool, have been highly gratified by listening to the instructive and truly eloquent services of the Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D. of New York, during the months of June and July. He has returned to the scene of his ministerial labours with the prayers of numbers for his continued health and increasing usefulness and happi ness. TRIM STREET CHAPEL, BATH.-On Sunday July 16, the religious services at the Unitarian Chapel, Trim Street, Bath, were conducted, morning and evening, by the Rev. George Harris. CONFERENCE OF THE UNITARIAN MINISTERS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND.-The Conference met in the chapel, Mary-street, Taunton, on Monday morning, July 17th, at 12 o'clock, and the following ministers were present :-the Revs. H. Acton, Exeter; R. B. Maclellan, Bridport; C. W. Robberds, Sidmouth; W. J. Odgers, Plymouth; J. G. Teggin, Crewkerne; R. L. Carpenter, Bridgewater; Dr Beard, Manchester; S. Walker, Bristol; E. Whitfield, Ilminster; R. Gibson, J. R. Wreford, G. Armstrong, Bristol; Dr Perry, Exeter; H. Solly, Tavistock; D. Harwood, Honiton ; W. James, Bristol; M. Maurice, Reading; S. J. May, Leicester, Mass., U. S.; J. Taplin, Colyton; J. Bayley, Bristol; R. M. Montgomery, Taunton. The Rev. Henry Acton was requested to act as president of the Conference, and the Rev. W. James as Secretary. Prayer was then offered by the Rev. G. Armstrong; after which, The Rev. W. James stated the origin and design of the meeting, and laid before the Conference various plans which had been proposed by different ministers, with a view to more earnest and combined efforts for the advancement of Unitarian Christianity; and by way of commencing the important business which was about to be entered upon, he begged to move as the first resolution "That the state of religion in our country, and our duty to our faith, which we believe to be emphatically suited to |