from the statement given, are all of them important, and treated in a manner which, if not wholly original, is highly interesting. There is in it something stirring, as well as novel. We present no extracts; for we wish our readers to possess the volume itself, and to be acquainted with its entire contents. The Sermons will not be read without interest, and we should think that they could not be without profit. We hope that the work will receive an extensive patronage.

REV. E. CORNELIUS' SERMON. THE Sermon to which we refer, was preached by the Rev. ELIAS CORNELIUS, Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass. on the Doctrine of the Trinity. We notice it on account both of the subject, and of the correct, lucid and able manner in which it is stated and discussed by the author. We took up the Sermon

with raised expectations; but they were more than answered by the perusal. The subject is important, and even fundamental, in what we consider to be the gospel scheme. Omitting other remarks, we would observe, that the writer has avoided, if not entirely, yet to a very great extent, a fault, which we have often been pained to see, a loose and careless manner in quoting scripture, in proof of a point upon which it had no direct bearing. He manifests more judgment and caution in his selection of passages to prove what he asserts, than is usual with preachers on subjects of controversy. A judicious and popular Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, was demanded by the existing state of things. We are glad to meet with one which we so highly approve, and can so cordially recommend to our readers. We wish that it may have a general circulation in the christian public.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY celebrated its tenth anniversary on the 11th of May, in the Middle Dutch Church, New York. In the absence of the venerable President, the Chair was taken by the Hon. John Cotton Smith, one of the Vice-Presidents. The meeting was numerous, and the exercises attended with the usual degree of interest. The following are selected as the most pro

minent facts in the abstract of the Secretary's Annual Report.

"The receipts into the treasury, and the circulation of the Scriptures, have both again exceeded those of the preceding years; the former by 6576 dollars, and the latter by 3881 Bibles and Testaments.

"During the year there have been printed at the Depository, or are now in the press, 34,250 Bibles; viz. in English, 28,250;

Spanish, 4000; French, 4000; and 46,750 Testaments; viz. in English, 44,750; and in French, 2000; making a total of Bibles and Testaments for the present year of 81,000, which, added to 451,902, the number which was stated in the Ninth Report, makes a grand total of FIVE HUNDRED

AND THIRTY TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWO BIBLES AND

TESTAMENTS, or parts of the latter, printed from the stereotype plates of the Society, or otherwise obtained for circulation during the ten years of the Society's exist ence. Plates for a pocket bible have at length been completed, though after some delay, and an edition of 2000 have been put to press.

"The issues from the Depository from the 30th of April, 1825, to the 1st of May 1826, have been as follows:-31,154 bibles; 35,927 testaments; 52 Mohawk Gospels, and 1 Delaware Epistle. Total, 67,134; which added to 372,913 bibles and testaments, and parts of the latter, issued in former years, make the whole number issued from the commencement of the institution to be 440,047-exclusive of those issued by the Kentucky Bible Society, and printed from plates belonging to this Society, and those which have been procured by Auxiliary Societies from other quarters. The issues of the scriptures in foreign languages has been considerably augmented during the past year. The account is as follows:-Spanish bibles, 2,705; French, 203; German, 157; Dutch 1;-3,066. Spanish testaments, 2,681; German, 261; Portugese, 1;--2,943. Total of both, 6,009.

After mentioning supplies furnished by the Society to the West Indies, Sandwich Islands, &c. the

report states the following facts concerning our own country. “In Illinois one fourth of the twelve thousand families composing the population of that state, are unsupplied with the Scriptures. In Wayne county, Ohio, the Bible Society reports that 654 families have been found destitute, and five towns remained unexplored : In Brown county, Ohio, 985 families are in a similar condition. The reports of the Bible Society in Scott county, Ken. declares that in one district in that county, out of 559 persons subject to taxation, 260 were found destitute of the Scriptures; in another district 267 out of 400; and in another 327 out of 572. In nine out of the 36 counties of Alabama, the most highly improved parts of the State, 2378 families have been found destitute, while only 26951 families in the same counties were supplied. It is estimated that 7134 families are destitute in the other counties of that State. The Secretary of one of the Societies in Indiana, estimates the number of families in that state at 40,000, not more than one half of which number have an entire copy of the bible.

Many other facts of a similar character might be presented, from other states in the South and West; but the Managers choose rather to turn their attention nearer home, where, within the state of New York, facts have been disclosed equally painful to every Christian heart. In Oswego County, one fourth part of the families are destitute. In nine towns of Livingston county, 277 families are destitute. In Tioga county, 500 families are in the like situation. In Allegany county, and some of the adjoining settlements, 1000 families are destitute. The Society in St

Lawrence county, found 716 families in the like situation, and took immediate measures to supply them. These facts have been elicited by the Societies, who have taken pattern after the example set them in Monroe county last year, and they have resolved to persevere in their labours, until it is known that every family is supplied. But with all their efforts, the tide of population rolls on so rapidly from the shores of the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, that the Managers fear that unless greater exertions are employed, to disseminate the Bible, there will ere long exist in our country, millions of civilized human beings unenlightened by the Oracles of God.

The number of Auxiliary Societies recognised by the parent institution during the past year, is fifty-two.

MISSIONS IN CEYLON.

MR. CLOUGH, Wesleyan Missionary in Ceylon, states a very important fact, that has lately transpired in

the southern part of peninsular India-it is supposed Tanjore, the scene of Mr. Swartz's labors. He states it on the authority of a missionary of the Church of England, who had lately attended a missionary meeting in Ceylon.— It is this: "that forty villages, containing in the aggregate, four thousand inhabitants, had publicly renounced heatherism, and had converted many of their temples into Christian churches, and such as could not be thus used they had demolished, with their idols."

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Our correspondent met, at the table of Mr. Butterworth, with a Mr. Bruce, an officer of the East India Company, who had just returned from Madras. Mr. Bruce "spoke of twenty-two gentlemen on the Madras establishment under government, [we presume he means, in the civil service,] who appear to be truly converted to God, and who are acting, in some degree, the part of missionaries among the heathen." He said, also, that forty military officers, in the same Presidency, were like-minded. Miss. Herald.

May 1,-Rev. LUTHER G. BINGHAM was installed over the First Church and Society in Marietta, Ohio. Sermon by Rev. Samuel D. Hoge.

May 10,-Rev. LEONARD JOHNSON was ordained as an Evangelist at Weathersfield, Vt. Sermon by Rev. W. Chapin, of Woodstock.

May 10,--Rev. Messrs. M. KING and SAMUEL K. SNEED, were or

dained at Middletown, Ky. as Evangelists, by the Presbytery of Louisville.

May 14,-Rev. JACOB BROADHEAD, D. D. was installed Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Baldwin, of New-York.

May 17,-Rev. JOSIAH TUCKER was ordained Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Madi

son, Me. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Thurston, of Winthrop.

May 24,-Rev. DANIEL DANA, D. D. was installed Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church and Society in Newburyport, Mass. Sermon by Rev. Samuel P. Williams.

May 31,-Rev. HENRY WOOD was ordained as Pastor of the Congregational Church in Goffstown, N. H. Sermon by Rev. E. P. Bradford, of New Boston.-At the same time Rev. JACOB LITTLE was ordained as an Evangelist.

June 20,-Rev. AARON PICKET was ordained in South Boston as an Evangelist. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Fay, of Charlestown.

June 21,-Rev. SAMUEL RUSSELL was ordained Pastor of the Congregational Church in Boylston.

Sermon by Rev. Mr. Nelson, of Leicester.

June 21,-Rev. A. B. CHURCH was ordained at East Machias, Me. as an Evangelist. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Jackson, of West Machias.

June 27,—Rev. Mr. Fıтz was ordained at Ipswich, as Colleague Pastor with the Rev. Dr. Dana.

July 5,-Rev. THOMAS SAVAGE was installed, at Bedford, N. H. by the Londonderry Presbytery. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Whiton.

July 12,-Rev. HEMAN ROOD was ordained to the Pastoral care of the Gilmanton Central Congregational Society. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Edwards, of Andover, Ms.

Installed, at Bennington, Vt. Rev. DANIEL A. CLARK. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Griffin, President of Williams College.

UNITARIANISM SOUND Doctrine.A Sermon preached at Waltham, at the Ordination of the Rev. Bernard Whitman, Feb. 15, 1826. By Nathaniel Whitman, Minister of Billerica.

[Continued from page 252.] We are now prepared to notice Mr. W.'s second objection to the doctrine of the Trinity. "We object to this doctrine still further, that it tends in its legitimate consequences, to the destruction of Revelation. Of these consequences, it may be sufficient, for my present purpose, to mention only one. But this is of such a character, that it must, it would seem, when duly considered by Trinitarians, excite in their minds, a fearful distrust of the soundness of the doctrine whence it necessarily flows. The consequence of which I thus speak, is the denial of the Supreme Deity of our heavenly Father. Trinitarians cannot, in consistency with their creed, admit that the Father is the only true God. If the three persons in the Godhead are the same in substance, equal in power, and glory, then must each of them be a Supreme Being, or neither of them alone can be such a Being. But Trinitarians do not allow that there

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are three Supreme Beings. They must, therefore, to be consistent, deny that the Father is such a Being. And, it would seem, that they do not hesitate to admit that such a consequence does flow from their system. For,' say they, though the Father be God, the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God; yet there are not three Gods, but one God.' Thus explicitly do they admit, that their doctrine of the Trinity requires them to deny the Supreme Deity of our Heavenly Father." This last sentence is truly remarkable. Nor is the one just above, less so; in which he says, that Trinitarians do not hesitate to admit that it does flow from their system, that the Father is not the Supreme Being. Why Mr. W. should say that Trinitarians admit that their system requires them to deny the Supreme Deity of our Heavenly Father, we cannot conceive, unless he meant to say any thing respecting them, which he thought would be to his purpose, whether truth would bear him out in his assertions, or not. There is nothing in his quotation from Vincent, which implies that the Father is not the Supreme God; and if there was, Mr. W. knows perfectly well, that Vincent did.

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