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OFFICERS

OF THE

AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION,

1831-32.

PRESIDENT,

Rev. AARON BANCROFT, D. D. of Worcester, Mass.

VICE PRESIDENTS,

Hon. JOSEPH STORY, Mass.

Hon. JOSEPH LYMAN, Mass.

Hon. CHARLES H. ATHERTON, N. H.

Hon. STEPHEN LONGFELLOW, Maine.

HENRY WHEATON, Esq. N. Y.

JAMES TAYLOR, Esq. Penn.
HENRY PAYSON, Esq. Md.
Hon. WILLIAM CRANCH, D. C.
MARTIN L. HURLBUT, Esq. S. C.
Hon. SAMUEL S. WILDE, Mass.
Hon. SAMUEL HOAR, Jr. Mass.
REV. TIMOTHY FLINT, Ohio.

DIRECTORS,

Rev. JAMES Walker,
Rev. SAMUEL BARRETT,

Rev. EZRA S. GANNETT.

Rev. HENRY WARE, Jr. Foreign Secretary.
Rev.. ALEXANDER YOUNG, Domestic Secretary.

HENRY RICE, Esq. Treasurer.

Communications respecting the payment of subscriptions or donations may be made to the Treasurer, Kilby Street, Boston. Negotiations for tracts should be conducted with the General Agents, Messrs Gray & Bowen, 141 Washington Street, Boston. All other domestic correspondence may be held with the Domestic Secretary.

INDEX TO VOL. IV.

A.

AGE, the present, favorable to
the spread of pure Christian-
ity, 101, sqq. Circumstances
of the social condition of, ib.
Improved habits of thinking
of, 104. State of information
of, 109. State of feeling of, 114.
American Unitarian Association,
Reports of for the Sixth An-
niversary, 285, sqq. Receipts
of for 1830, 31, 286. Expen-
ditures of for 1830, 31, 287.
Increased influence of, 289.
Tract department of, ib. Min-
istry to the poor in Boston,
under the care of, 291. Con-
nexion of with the Boston
Sunday School Society dis-
solved, 292. Appropriations
of for preaching in Maine,
Vermont, and other States, ib.
Antiquity and Revival of Uni-

tarian Christianity, 221, sqq.
Arianism, account of in the 4th
century, 231.

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of at the annual meeting of
A. U. A. 305.

C.

CARPENTER, Dr Lant, on the
beneficial tendency of Unita-
rianism, 137, sqq.
Changes of opinion among the
Orthodox, 299.

Children, how regarded by Uni-
tarians, 37.

'Children of wrath,' what Paul

meant by, 169, sqq.
Children of the Poor in Boston,
claims of, 249, sqq. Classifi-
cation of by the Minister at
Large, 252, sqq.
Male, be-

tween seven and fourteen
years of age, ib. Female, of
the same age, 258. Number
of, growing up in ignorance
and exposed to moral dan-
ger, 258. Male, between

fourteen and sixteen or seven-
teen, who are without any
regular employment, 258.
Christianity, pure, the prospects
and claims of, 101, sqq. Uni-
tarian, antiquity and revival ·
of, 221, sqq.
Conscience, Orthodox plea of
replied to, 18.
Controversy, religious, the direc-
tion it has taken, 296. Effect
of to bring the several sects of
Christians nearer to a coinci-
dence of opinion, 305.
Church, the Christian, its nature
explained, 27.

D.

DOCTRINAL Sentiment in Eng-
land described, 315.
Dublin, Ireland, Unitarianism
in, 320.

E.

EARLY Religious Education,
the importance and method of,
37, sqq.
Education, what is understood
by the word, 40. Early, moral
and religious, importance of,
41, sqq. Method of, 55, sqq.
England, state of Unitarianism
in, 311. Controversial preach-
ing, how regarded in, 314.
Ephesians 11. 3., explained, 469,
sqq.

Epistles, Paul's, causes of ob-
scurity of, 181, sqq.
Essay for the understanding of
St Paul's Epistles, 181, sqq.
Europe, Prof. Ware's Report of
Unitarianism in, 308, sqq.
Exclusionists, history of, 4. The
reasonings by which they de-
fend their conduct replied to,
6, sqq.
Exclusive System, what it con-
sists in, 3. Who began it, 4.
Its progress among Protestants,
5. Fallacy of the arguments
by which it is supported ex-
posed, 6, sqq. Evils of, 31.
Explanation of the words,,By
nature children of wrath,' 169,
sqq.

F.

FEMALES, education of, 46.
Follen, Prof., remarks of at the
annual meeting of A. U. A.
Fundamentals in religion, the
hackneyed plea of the Ortho-
dox about, answered, 8, sqq.

G.

GENEVA, state of the church in,
321. Progress of Unitarian-
ism in, ib.
Girls, poor, in Boston, between
seven and fourteen years of
age, who cannot read, 258.
Who are growing up in igno-
rance and exposed to moral

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MANCHESTER College, Eng.,
condition of, 310.
Mankind, how far creatures of
education, 39.

Materialism, doctrine of, how
viewed by English Unitarians,
316.

May, Samuel J., on Prejudice,
85, sqq.
Remarks of at the
annual meeting of the A. U.
A., 306.

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pects and claims of pure
Christianity, 101, sqq.
Parents, Christian, address to,

respecting the religious edu-
cation of their children, 74, sqq.
Paul, Locke's Essay for the un-
derstanding of the Epistles of,
181, sqq. His style and tem-
per, 183.
Periodical publications, Unita-
rian, increase of the number
of, 294.

Piety at Home, 205, sqq.
Poor, children of, 249, sqq.
Preaching, controversial, how
regarded in England, 314.

NATURE, study of, a means of Prejudice, on, by Samuel J.

religious education, 61.
Necessity, doctrine of, how re-
garded by English Unitarians,
316.

New England, people of, appeal-
ed to in regard to the Exclu-
sionists, 31.

Nichols, Dr, remarks of, at the
annual meeting of A. U. A.

0.

OFFICERS of the A. U. A., for
1831-32, 326.
Orthodoxy, false and gloomy
views presented by, 156.
Changes in, 299.
Orthodox, their notions of fun-
damentals in religion examin-
ed, 8.
Their plea of con-
science by way of justifying
exclusiveness, replied to, 17.
Their distinction between ec-
clesiastical and civil penalties
considered, 20. Their violent
measures in the Canton de
Vaud, 323.

Orthodox party, the, approaching
the liberal party, in respect to
the doctrines of the trinity,
atonement, and original sin,
305,

May, 85, sqq. Its sources
1. An uncharitable temper, 89;
2. Ignorance, or a partial edu-
cation, 91; 3. Caprice. Its
effects-1. It throws a veil
over truth, 34; 2. Destroys
social happiness, 35; 3. Unfits
the character for heaven, 96.
Priestly, how regarded in Eng-
land by Unitarians, 312.

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PALFREY, John G., on the pros- SAVIOUR, the, opinions of Eng-

lish Unitarians as to the person
of, 316.
School of Reformation at South
Boston, account of, 266. Im-
provements in, suggested, 268.
Great end and aim of, 270.
Proper subjects of, 272.
Schools, Free, in Boston, 279.
Scotland, progress of Unitarian-
ism in, 311.

Scriptures, the, reading of, a
means of religious and moral
education, 65.

Servants, selection of, 53.
'Signs of the times,' favorable

to pure Christianity, 102, sqq.
Stetson, Caleb, on piety at home,
205, sqq.

Sunday School instruction, 55.

T.

TEMPER, regulation of, 22.
Thomas, Rev. Mr. remarks of at
the annual meeting of A. U.
A., 307.

Tracts of A. U. A., 290.
Truth, Christian, four circum-
stances favorable to the pro-
gress of, 296, 297, 299, 301.
How we are to help it to pre-
vail, 121, sqq.
Tuckerman, Mr, Seventh Semi-
annual Report of, 249, sqq.
His account of the morally
neglected and vicious chil-
dren in Boston, 252, sqq. The
method he proposes for reme-
dying the evils described, 260,

sqq.

U.

ULSTER, Synod of, in Ireland,
conduct of, 319.
Unitarianism, the beneficial ten-
dency of, 137, sqq. Encour-
ages and rewards exertion of
the understanding, 140. Pre-
sents one object of religious
worship, of the highest affec-
tions of the heart, 144. Throws.

no impediment in the way of
the great practical principles
of the gospel, 147. Throws
no impediment in the way of
christian liberality and affec-
tion, 151. Shines forth re-
splendently in respect to the
character and dispensations of
the great Father of all, 156.
Unitarian Christianity, antiquity

and revival of, 221, sqq. The
religion of the N. T., 222.
Character and condition of in
England, Scotland and Switz-
erland, 309, sqq.

Unitarian Christians, increase of
practical religion among, 302.
Universalism, how regarded by
English Unitarians, 317.

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