Unitarians have as ample means of coming to a knowledge of the truth, as other sects; and any claims to infallibility, come they whence they will, are not the teachings of the Holy Spirit, but the movements of human arrogance or spiritual pride. Considerations like these will, ere long remove, we trust, all scruples that have been entertained by unitarian Christians against associations for mutual aid and encouragement, and for promoting, as far as may be, what they deem the cause of pure and undefiled religion. We feel confident that the wavering will come to this result, when they shall have read the Report now before us, and see what the first general association of the kind has done, and what it proposes to do.

Among the prominent designs of the American Unitarian Association is the publication of such tracts as contain an exposition and defence of unitarian Christianity. This, as every one who has read the pamphlets whose titles are mentioned at the head of this article will perceive, is in a successful course of execution. First in order, and very valuable for its contents, is The Faith once delivered to the Saints. It contains a summary of Christian truth, which seems to us to embrace all that is most valuable in religion; and the presumptions in its favor are recommended by powerful and convincing arguments. The second of these tracts is entitled One hundred Scriptural Arguments for the Unitarian Faith. Its object is to prove the Unity of God, in its strict sense, by reference to, and citation of passages in the New Testament, a great portion of which are the words of our Saviour. The proof is as satisfactory as this sort of proof from single texts can be, and, compared with the collection of proof texts adduced by Trinitarians, the weight of evidence is overwhelming. Without selecting any particular texts, we quote the following concluding arguments, which any one may controvert, who is able :

'XCIV. Because there are, in the New Testament seventeen passages, wherein the Father is styled one or only God, while there is not a single passage in which the Son is so styled.

XCV. Because there are 320 passages, in which the Father is absolutely, and by way of eminence, called God; while there is not one in which the Son is thus called.

'XCVI. Because there are 105 passages, in which the Father is denominated God, with peculiarly high titles and epithets, whereas the Son is not once so denominated.

'XCVII. Because there are 90 passages, wherein it is declared that all prayers and praises ought to be offered to HIM, and that every thing ought to be ultimately directed to His honour and glory; while of the Son no such declaration is ever made.

'XCVIII. Because, of 1300 passages in the New Testament, wherein the word God is mentioned, not one necessarily implies the existence of more than one person in the Godhead, or that this one is any other than the Father.

'XCIX. Because the passages, wherein the Son is declared, positively, or by the clearest implication, to be subordinate to the Father, deriving his being from Him, receiving from Him his divine power, and acting in all things wholly according to His will, are in number above 300.'

Mr Sewall's Discourse on Human Depravity has been already noticed in our work, and we have never seen it remarked upon with exaggerated praise. Mr Hutton's Discourse entitled 'Omniscience the Attribute of the Father only,' is next in order. His reasoning is founded on one of the texts, in which our Saviour disclaims this attribute; Mark xiii. 32, But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. The text alone, it should seem, is sufficiently full and satisfactory; but the reasoning and illustrations of the Discourse ought, we should think, to remove all doubt on the subject; and, we must add, a truly christian spirit pervades the whole. The tract on Religious Phraseology, consists of an explanation of some of the most common terms and phrases in the New Testament, together with some remarks on the popular and technical religious phraseology of the present day. In this essay is shown very strikingly, what every observing and intelligent person so often witnesses, how many words and phrases, upon religious subjects, are used in a vague or in a wrong sense, and how much the ignorant and the prejudiced are im-* posed upon, or deceived by each other, from using names and terms, which convey no definite idea, or something more or less than the truth. The last of the tracts before us, Dr Tuckerman's Letter on the Principles of the Missionary Enterprise, is written with ability, and we doubt not will do much to remove the strong objections, which Unitarians have, unquestionably, as a body, against all foreign missionary exertions.

We are much gratified to find by the Report of the Execu

tive Committee of the Association, that these tracts have been in so much demand. They cannot fail to give comfort and assurance to many skeptical minds, and to remove the darkness which hangs over the faith of many believers, concerning the true doctrines of Christianity. It is a tribute justly due to the Executive Committee, to declare our opinion, that great judgment has been exercised thus far in the selection of tracts. They are such as all reading people can understand; they are free from every thing like cant or imposing tricks, from every thing which ministers to a mean or corrupt taste, to a proud or censorious spirit. If the good work proceeds as it has begun, we cannot but predict a great, and salutary, and wide spreading influence on public opinion in regard to subjects, which, above all others, it concerns mankind most fully to understand.

Another principal.object of the Association is the support of domestic missionaries. Though but little has been done by its committee, in this way, it is not because the field for their services is circumscribed, but because the laborers are not at hand for such an unexpected call. The situation of a considerable portion of our country is such, that the only way in which its inhabitants can have the gospel preached to them, is by means of temporary missionaries, or of a partial support for ministers, to be drawn from missionary societies. There is no reason why Unitarians should not have their full share of success in this evangelical work. But it is not to be wondered at, on the contrary, that more has not been attempted in this benevolent enterprise. The growth of Unitarianism in our country, though it has been rapid, has been comparatively recent, and so far from being forced, it has been left too much to its own inherent strength. Still Unitarian preachers have not increased in proportion to the increasing calls for their ser vices; and they have been so much in demand near the place of their education, in churches already formed, as to be unable to explore new and untried regions. But we trust the time is arrived, or is soon coming, when, from the diversities of gifts among the young men of liberal views who are educated for the ministry, there will be found such as are fitted and disposed to engage, at least temporarily, in missionary labors. These labors afford a good school for the young licentiate, whose mind has been well educated. The avenues to the heart are

much the same in all men; and perhaps they will be most.

readily found and penetrated, by going among strangers, who are all unused to the refinements which exist in the older and

more populous parts of our country. And if the missionary should be obliged, as he often will be, to clothe his thoughts in a garb too coarse and homely for his own taste, yet there will probably be no serious difficulty in changing it again for that which is adapted to a change of circumstances.

Again, there are some good men, who are peculiarly fitted to be missionaries, and who learn, not only to endure, but to enjoy the kind of services, which their office demands; men who may acquire an influence, and exhibit an energy, of which they would be wholly incapable among the companions of their studies, in churches distinguished for intellectual cultivation and religious knowledge. They will always find enough to keep their minds awake; for there are many thinking, though unlettered men, men who read their Bibles, who may propound a question or give an exposition, which the teacher may want time to consider, and will find worthy of his most serious thoughts. Instances of this kind will perhaps at first surprise the missionary, whose education has been wholly scholastic; but they will tend to quicken him in the constant and faithful study of the scriptures, and to give the greatest activity to his mental powers. And if, by the abundance of his labors, he should be worn out sooner than his brethren in the ministry, whose services are confined to some favored spot, there is, perhaps, less danger of rust, and premature decline of intellectual vigor.

Whatever view we take of the objects of the Unitarian Association, we therefore cannot but predict great good from it to the cause of Christianity. And we confidently invite our readers to examine its claims to their favor, and to afford their cooperation in its efforts to promote the influence and extension of what we believe to be the doctrines of pure religion.

ART. VIII.-An Address delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance. June, 1826. By GAMALIEL BRADFORD, M. D. Boston. I. R. Butts & Co. 1826.

THE Society before which this address was delivered, has been in existence fourteen years. Its object has been to ope rate upon the public mind, by collecting and disseminating in

formation, rather than by any direct efforts for individual reformation; rather to produce a proper sense of the extent of the evils produced by intemperance, and right views of the means to be employed in its suppression, in the community at large, than actually to carry into effect any measures, which were to operate upon the subjects of this vice themselves. This object has been attempted, by the publication of the Addresses delivered before the Society on its anniversaries, and by the publication of the Annual Reports of the Board of Counsel.

These Reports were many of them drawn up with great care, and contain a very considerable mass of important matter. But at the time of their publication, they excited less attention than the nature of their contents demanded. Still they have had their influence, in combination with other causes, in gradually producing a lively sensation of the tremendous evils and the alarming increase of intemperance; and we believe that we are not mistaken in saying, that the impression upon the minds of men interested for the welfare of society, of the necessity for strenuous and united exertions for the suppression of this vice, has at no time been so strong as at the present.

Where a habit, like that of drinking ardent spirits in some degree, is so universal as it is among ourselves, it is found very difficult to point out at first, what particular circumstances have made some individuals carry their indulgence beyond the bounds of moderation; what causes have contributed to change the habit of occasional and prudent, into constant and excessive use. It is equally difficult, where this state of things exists, to point out the way in which the reformation of those who have thus become intemperate, is to be attempted; the means by which we are to produce a favorable influence upon their minds; the motives by which they are to be addressed. Consequently the efforts, which were made for a long time, had only a very general bearing, and therefore were apparently without effect. This, however, was not really the case. They have been preparing the way by gradually enlightening the minds of men, eliciting information, exciting discussion, and in this way bringing about, at length, a right understanding, both of the causes of the wide increase of the vice, and also of the most probable means of prevention and suppression.

It was very natural in seeking to devise means for the suppression of intemperance, that we should entirely overlook the influence, which the habits of even the sober part of the