the progress of error, and, under a Divine blessing, of bringing men to a knowledge of the glorious Gospel. "Since our last annual meeting, the Board have purchased the following tracts: 500 Fuller's Great Question answered. 250 Adventure in Vermont. 150 Friendly Instructor. 50 Hymns for Infant Minds. 25 Childs Memorial. 300 Dialogue on Regeneration. 500 Vivian's three Dialogues. 500 Hints and Anecdotes on Profaneness. 200 Whitaker on the Danger of Delay. 200 Word in Season. 300 History of a Bible. 200 Power of Truth. 50 Day of Adversity. 200 Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. 500 Dialogue between two Seamen. 100 Newton's Monument. 100 Sixteen Short Sermons. 100 All is for the Best. 900 Monitor to Parents. 200 Address from a Stranger. 500 Tracts were presented by Mr. Henry Homes. 100 do. by Mr. William Crosby. 100 do. by Mr. N. Willis. 12 Walks of Usefulness, by the Secretary. 6,637 "All the Tracts belonging to the Society have been circulated, except Dr. Rush's pamphlet on Intemperance, and the Dialogue between two Seamen, which, being intended for particular classes, have been more sparingly dispersed. The field, in which they have been sown is extensive. The District of Maine, Rhode Island, the Genessee country, as well as the metropo Es of Massachusetts, have shared in the bounty. "The Society, which has been organized bot a year and a half, has already proeared from 9 to 10,000 tracts, which being principally in circulation, are no doubt guiding some wandering sinners to a place of safety. "Although our country, from various eauses, is in deep affliction, and the minds of many are absorbed in temporal objects, it is hoped we may continue affectionately to remember Zion. Surely they shall prosper that love her. In due time, the Lord will undoubtedly appear to build up ad prosper his church; and he may own These our humble efforts to promote his racious work, Per order, E. LINCOLN, Secretary, Several ministering brethren present, stated very encouraging effects to have been produced by the circulation of tracts. One instance in particular was communi cated, where the association of a few females to distribute tracts had issued in opening a door for the free dispensation of the Gospel of Christ. An encouraging communication, covering twenty-eight dollars, was received from a Branch of the Society, formed by friends belonging to the Baptist church in Newton; and it is hoped friends in other towns will imitate the example. Officers chosen for the ensuing year. The Rev. THOMAS BALDWIN, D.Ď. Pres. E. LINCOLN, Sec. HEMAN LINCOLN, Treas. Rev. Thomas Waterman, William Batchelder, Lucius Bolles, Daniel Sharp, William Gammell, and Messrs. Henry Homes, Amos Smith, and Elijah Corey, Committee.. AN association of females in Salem, called the Tabernacle Female Charitable Society, and instituted for the purpose of aiding the missionary cause, has in seven years contributed to the treasury of the Massachusetts Missionary Society about a thousand dollars. Very exemplary liberality has also been displayed by females in the church and Society of the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, and the Rev. Mr. Emerson, in that town. In other places similar liberality may have been equally worthy of distinct notice, though not particularly known to the writer of this paragraph. ORDINATIONS. ORDAINED, at Danby, (N. Y.) on the 21st of December last, the Rev. SAMUEL PARK ER. Sermon by the Rev. Hezekiah N. Woodruff, from 1 Cor. xv, 20. At Boston, on the 14th inst. the Rev. JOHN LOVEJOY ABBOT, to the pastoral care of the first church and congregation in that town. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Ware, from Acts xxvi, 17, 18. OBITUARY. DIED, at Manchester, (Vt.) Mr. JOSEPH FRENCH, aged 67. He was apparently in good health, was suddenly seized with a severe pain in one of his fingers, and expired in an hour afterwards. At Holliston, on the 6th inst. the Rev. TIMOTHY DICKINSON, aged 52. At Rhinebeck, (N. Y.) on the 22d ult. Mr. JOHN R. SCHUYLER, a member of the senior class in Harvard College, aged 20. At New York, SILAS TALBOT, Esq. late captain in U. S. Navy. At Brentzlau in Prussia, on the 28th of April, Prince KUTUSOFF SMOLENSKO, commander-in-chief of the Russian and Prussian armies, aged 70. In Prussia, AUGUSTUS FERDINAND, Prince of Prussia, a brother of Frederic the Great, aged 83. In the battle of Lutzen, fought on the 2d of May last, Marshal BESSIERES, Duke of Istria, Bonaparte's greatest general of cavalry. In the same battle, the Prince of HESSE HEMBOURG, an officer in the Prussian army. At New Haven, on the 25th of March last, Mrs. REBECCA DAGGETT, aged 32. In the death of this woman, society sustains a heavy loss; but to her afflicted friends the bereavement is peculiarly distressing, and would be insupportable without the glorious consolations of religion. But blessed be God, that, while they mourn, they have good reason to entertain the animating hope, that their departed friend is participating in the enjoy ments of saints and angels in praising their Creator and Redeemer, and are thus furnished with strong motives to live as coheirs of the same heavenly inheritance. The subject of this notice was distinguished by many attractive and amiable qualities, by great prudence and discretion, and, in the latter years of her life, by submission to the will of God, and elevated piety. She possessed great personal beauty, and very uncommon sweetness of manners, and benevolence of disposition. The anriableness of her character, and the propriety of her conduct, even in childhood, gained her many valuable friends. Being religiously educated, she ever appeared to entertain a high veneration for the ordinances and worship of God, and for the Christian character, long before she herself professed this character. Her great delight seemed to be to do good. Her cheerfulness was natural, constant, and almost invincible; her fortitude worthy of high admiration. With all these native excellences, and with a heart renewed and sanctified by divine grace, what might not have been expected? What has not been realized? In the year 1808 she was united to the church of God, in New Haven, her native town, and where she always resided. From that period to its close, her life was an unvaried course of kindness and benevolence. Every faculty was employed in the great business of serving God and her generation. No opportunity of communicating happiness was so minute as to escape her observation, and no practicable exertions so great as to deter her from action, where the good of her fellow creatures was concerned. Under a combination of severe and lasting afflictions, she exhibited, for several years, great composure of mind, and great dignity of deportment. Though modest, silent, and uncomplaining, she was at the farthest possible remove from apathy. Her religion was that of the heart. She was a light, shining with steady and uncommon lustre, and breaking forth with increased splendor in the hour of death. She was attacked on the 21st of March with the epidemic which then prevailed, which appeared to be seated on her lungs, and to remove which baffled all the skill of her physicians. She expired on the fifth day of her illness, after much distress, which she sustained with exemplary patience. Notwithstanding the great difficulty of respiration under which she labor ed, she was able to converse a great deal with her friends, to bear ample testimony to the stedfastness of her faith, and to pray earnestly for them and for the church of Christ, even while apparently in the agonies of dissolving nature. If this slight sketch of a well-spent life, and a triumphant death, should have the least tendency to inspire one soul with faith in the Redeemer, or to animate one heart to a more vigorous exercise of love to that God from whom cometh down every good gift and every perfect gift, it will greatly rejoice the heart of the writer, who considers religious biography, as a channel by which immense good may be conveyed. Let the reader inquire whether he should tremble if laid immediately on his death-bed, and whether he is prepared for heaven. At Hillsborough, (N. H.) on the 11th of April last, Mr. JOHN JONES, aged 24. The sircumstances attending this young man's death were extraordinary and worthy of notice. He went from his father's house to public worship on the Sabbath, and, as he did not return at evening, was supposed to have gone to a brother's, a few miles distant. No alarm was experienced by the family till Wednesday, when a search commenced, and his dy was found on Thursday morning, within 60 rods of his SWEET was the song the angels sung father's house. In returning from meeting he crossed the fields, and, from the position of his body, it appeared that he loosened a stone wall by passing over it, and, leaping down, his feet slipped and he fell backward toward the wall, when a stone weighing fifty or sixty pounds, fell upon his head, in such a manner as to produce instantaneous death. It appeared that he did not even struggle, as his handkerchief remained in his hand. He was an active young man, of correct moral habits, and his death was greatly lamented. Surely it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. HYMNS. Sweeter the song of pure delight And bade her children join the strain, But sweeter yet the song shall flow LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. NEW WORKS. THE Charlestown Association for the Reformation of Morals: a Tract, containing, 1. A Discourse delivered at the organization of the Association, by the Rev. Jedidah Morse, D.D. 2. The Constitution of the Association, with a list of the officers and members. 3. Rules and recommendations adopted by the Standing Committee of the Association. 4. Extracts from certain laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the suppression of vice and immorality. Boston; S. T. Armstrong. pp. 48. 12mo. 12 1-2 cents. A Sermon, preached at Concord, before his Excellency the Governor, the Honora N. ble Council, the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, June 3, 1813, being the anniversary election. By John Hubbard Church, Pastor of the church in Pelham, Concord; George Hough. 1813. pp. 41. A New Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: containing all the words in general use, with their significations accurately explained, and the sound of each syllable clearly expressed: among which will be found several hundred terms, with their acceptions and derivations, which appear to have been hitherto omitted by the best lexicographers. Also, a variety of the technical terms of medicine, Jaw, commerce, arts, and general science; the whole interspersed with critical and philosophical observations, and references to the respective authorities. To which will be [are] prefixed Mr. Walker's principles of English pronunciation: a nomenclature of the names of distinguished persons and places of antiquity; comprising a sketch of the mythology, history, and biography of the ancients, from the most au thentic sources: a chronological table of remarkable occurrences, from the earliest ages to the present time; containing whatever is worthy of record, as discoveries, inventions, &c. &c .Compiled from authors of the most approved reputation: with considerable additions. By an American Gentleman. Burlington, (N. J.) D. Allison & Co. 1813. Royal octavo. $8. NEW EDITIONS. THE Pious Mother, or Evidences for Heaven: written in the year 1650, by Mrs. Thomason Head, for the benefit of her children. Published from the original manuscript, by James Franks, A. M. and curate of Halifax. Newburyport; Thomas and Whipple. 1813. Memoirs of the Life and Character of the late Rev. George Whitefield, of Pem broke College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Right Honorable the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon. Faithfully selected from his original papers, journals, and letters, illustrated by a variety of interesting anecdotes, from the best authorities. Originally compiled by the late Rev. John Gillies, D.D. Minister of the College Church of Glasgow. Fifth edition. Revised and corrected, with large additions and improvements, by Aaron C. Seymour, author of "Letters to young persons." Boston; Samuel T. Armstrong. Large 12mo. pp. 268. 1813. Hound $1. The Royal Convert: or Force of Truth. Being a wonderful and strange relation of the conversion of Varanes, Prince of Persia, and two young Ladies, to the Christian faith; their trials and sufferings on that account; of the strange death of one of the ladies; and of the prince's success over his enemies, and converting at last his cruel father, and his whole kingdom. Boston; Samuel T. Armstrong. 18mo. 1815. Christian Morals: By Hannah More. First American from the 4th London edition. New York; Eastburn, Kirk & Co. 12mo. 1813. Leatures on Scripture Facts: By William Bengo Collyer, D.D. Boston; Samuel T. Armstrong. 8vo. 1813. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We decline publishing the paper of N. U. on Conscience, as it does not appear to us sufficiently perspicuous, though it contains many correct observations. We know not who this respected correspondent is; and mention the fact merely for the sake of stating, that we prefer not to know our correspondents in ordinary cases. Whether a piece is admitted or not, we have no desire to be informed who wrote it. From this observation must be excepted all communications which contain facts not generally known, and for the authenticity of which reliance must be had on the character of the writer. Under this class must be placed all accounts of Revivals of Religion and all obituary and biographical notices. None of these will be inserted unless the writer is known to us, or his account is confirmed from some other authentic source. The pieces of poetry transmitted by OLNEY have been received. Either a part, or the whole, will be inserted. An obituary notice of Miss DELIVERANCE EMMONS, is necessarily deferred till next month. Several months ago, we received a peevish note from A. Z. expressing his regret that. the Panoplist should have been closed against his "candid and scriptural reply" to D. C. By turning to our answers to correspondents in the Panoplist for November last, p. 288, our readers will see, that we declined, in very mild terms,the insertion of A. Z's communication. It seems proper now to state, that our principal reason was a decided conviction, that the observations of A. Z. were both uncandid and unscriptural. Á. Z. is reminded, that, in the envelope containing his communication, is the following sentence: "The enclosed sheets are submitted with deference to your consideration." How far this is consistent with the note above referred to, A. Z. must determine. His communication is left at the publisher's, superscribed according to his request, to be delivered to his order. BETH in reply to ALEPH cannot be admitted: certainly not without very material retrenchments and alterations. On looking at the paper of ALEPH, we observe an error of the press, which has not been corrected. Pan. for March last, p. 449, columu 1, Eine 19 from the top, for "a seeking of superiority," read "a feeling of superiority." We intend to publish a Review of Bellamy's Works in our next number. THE PANOPLIST, AND MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. No. 3. AUGUST, (Part I.) 1813. VOL. IX. MISCELLANEOUS. For the Panoplist. ON THE GRADUAL AND IOUS PROGRESS OF PERANCE. ble. No. V. INSIDINTEM No person ever became a drunkard, or a tippler, all at once. The descent to infamy and to hell, upon the fiery stream of intoxicating liquors, though often rapid, is not perpendicular. In almost every case, the progress, at first, is slow and imperceptiProbably, not one hard drinker in a hundred entertained the least apprehension of danger, when he began to fall; and not one in fifty can, upon looking back, specify the day, or the month, when he took the first step, in the downward road of intemperance. It requires time to pervert the natural taste; to silence the remonstrances of conscience, to overcome the sense of shame; to extinguish the best affections of the heart; and, with the eyes open, to plunge voluntarily into all the miseries of infamy, poverty, discase, death, and perdition. It is by degrees, that an inordinate thirst for ardent spirits is created. The poison diffuses itself through the system unseen VOL. IX. and unsuspected. While the unconscious victim cries peace and safety, sudden destruction is coming upon him. Every day adds a new and stronger link to the chain, that is soon to bind him beyond the hope of deliverance. At every step his path becomes more steep and critical. Like a benighted wanderer on the glaciers of Switzerland, he walks upon the brink of destruction, and knows it not Or, rather, he is like a man in a delirium, who should stand and laugh and sing on some loose impending crag of the highest Alps, at the very moment when he is about plunging into the abyss beneath. This might serve for a hasty outline; but it may be useful, though it should be painful, to pursue the subject further. Let us then endeavor, in a few cases, to trace the insidious progress of intemperance, step by step, from the first excess, to downwright snd habitual intoxication. We will begin with one of those invalids, who are gradually and insensibly seduced by strong drink, under the imposing name of medicine. He resorts to the bottle of bitters at first, not because he craves liquor, but to re 13 |