THE

UNITARIAN ADVOCATE,

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

CONDUCTED BY

AN ASSOCIATION OF GENTLEMEN.

NEW SERIES,

VOL. I.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY LEONARD C. BOWLES,

No. 124 Washington Street.

MDCCCXXX.

1856. Decida

Gift of Prof. F. S. Hunting lin

A tambridge.

BOSTON:
Waitt & Dow's PRINT, 122 WASHINGTON-STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

NEW SERIES.

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NO I.

New Year

The Hour of Death

Opinions of Tertullian

Claims of Christianity to our careful Attention and Study

Orthodox Uncharitableness

Reciprocal Duties of Ministers and People. Public Worship

The means of cultivating Love to God

• He that is not against us is on our part

NO. II.

Christian Unity

A Cottage Scene, Original Poetry

Worcester on the Atonement

The conditions of our acceptance with God

Explanation of Isaiah ix. 6

Reciprocal Duties of Minister and People. Public Instruction

A Sister's Gift

Doddridge's Correspondence

Theological School at Cambridge

NO. INI.

The Defect of the Times

In what sense Christ says, I and my Father are One'

Creed of Tertullian

Our Saviour's Distress in the garden of Gethsemane, Matth.

xxvi, 36-42

Exhibition of a school of young ladies. Original Poetry

Modes of Defending the Trinity. Bishop Hobart's Charge

Dabney's Annotations

Bowles' new series of original books for children

Rev Thomas Belsham

Religious state and prospects of France

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NO. IV.

Immutability of the Christian Doctrine

The Law of Love

What was the chief end of our Saviour's divine mission ?

Obedience the test of Discipleship

Liberality and Bigotry

Personal Interest in Religion -

An extract from the Right Hand of Fellowship, given by Mr

May, of Brooklyn, Conn. at the ordination of Mr Walcutt,

of Berlin, Mass. Feb. 7, 1830

Record of Unitarian Ordinations, Installations, and Dedica-

tions, in New England, since the beginning of 1829

NO. V.

Religion illustrated by a comparison of it with other qualities

of the mind, and with other objects of pursuit

To Religion. Original Poetry

Who are Christians ?

The Religion of the · Natural Man'

Unitarianism, a Religion to die by

Christianity designed and adapted to be a universal religion.

Mr Young's Discourse

A plain and serious Address on the subject of the Christian

Religion, urging the practice of it in a candid and charitable

spirit

Juvenile Books

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NO. VI.

Religion, illustrated by a comparison of it with other qualities

and pursuits. No. 2, Means of Grace

• To die is gain. Original Poetry

Christ - lifted up,' and drawing all men' unto him

The Temptations incident to Affliction

The New Birth

- Special interposition of God'

Love to the Invisible God

Prayer to Jesus Christ not authorised by the Scriptures

Extract from Courayer's Last Sentiments

• The Bible Christian'

Unitarian Dedication, Ordinations, &c.

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To the thoughtful and wise all seasons and occurren

are capable of suggesting trains of pleasing or profitable reflection. Nature with her varying garb is to them no dumb pageant. All above, beneath, and around them, the earth, the air, and viewless flight of time, utter voices for them. Days speak, and months and years impart instruction.

At the present moment, the past and the future naturally rise up before us—the year that is gone, and the year

which is to come. The former can now benefit us only by its admonitions and warnings. With whatever sunny vestments, or garments of funereal sadness it has been clad, it now lives only in memory. Its joys and its sorrows have been tasted; its fears and hopes are ended; and its opportunities are past. Our thoughts and actions have been given in to the recordVOL. I.-NO. 1.

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