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style, that it would be injurious to the memory of the deceased were it not to be appended to this memorial:

"My acquaintance with Mr. Knowles did not commence till the year 1818; for although I occasionally attended at the Old chapel, Nantwich, of which my father and grandfather were trustees, my religious principles were not formed, and I was much tossed about by conflicting opinions. It was the reading of one of the earlier publications of our departed friend on the Athanasian Creed that led me to examine the grounds of my belief, and issued in my becoming an Unitarian. This circumstance led to a closer friendship between us, and ultimately to my becoming a minister in the Unitarian body. He was my spiritual father in Christ,' and the many obligations I am under to him are among my most treasured and grateful recollections. Our departed friend was also the means of leading the then General Baptist minister at Nantwich, Mr. Cooper, to a change of religious views; and it was in the pulpit of the old General Baptist chapel that I preached my first sermon in 1819. At that time there were well-attended classes for religious discussion, reading the Scriptures and prayer, held at the houses of members of both congregations. They were set on foot by Mr. Knowles, and he always presided over them. By the excellent manner in which they were conducted, these meetings were both pleasant and profitable, and were the means of leading several earnest men of other denominations to embrace the Unitarian faith, one or two of whom afterwards became useful ministers in our body.

"I do not think that our excellent friend was ever known or valued generally in the Unitarian body as he ought to have been. He was one of the most conscientious men I ever knew. Timeserving with him was out of the question. His independence and integrity were inflexible. He was extreme perhaps in some of his opinions, but no man was more thoroughly honest or sincere; all about him was unassumed, genuine and true. His bold and un

compromising advocacy of what he deemed right, and his warm and earnest manner of expressing his thoughts, sometimes exposed him to obloquy and misrepresentation; but while remaining firm to his own convictions, he always respected the conscientious opinions of others, and a more liberal-minded, Christ-like man never existed. With him, religion was a reality, and devotedness to his Master's cause was the atmosphere in which he breathed. The word of God was to him the rule of duty and the guide and comfort of life."

To such testimony nothing more need be added. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord! Even so, saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labours and their works do fellow them." Bolton, Nov. 10th.

F. B.

Nov. 10, at Birkdale Park, Southport, aged 67 years, Mr. ÁNDREW HALL, for many years a much-respected inhabitant of Manchester. He was, in the spirit of the benignant religion of his Saviour, ever desirous to do good to all around him. His mind was cultivated and his tastes refined. Other men may have surpassed him in achieving worldly success, but few men have won a greater amount of respect and affection from their friends. His sorrows were not few, but they were borne with gentle patience and never overcame his habitual cheerfulness.

Nov. 17, at Edgbaston, aged 69, SUSAN, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Lakin HAWKES, of Moseley, near Birmingham.

Nov. 19, at Waterloo, near Crosby, Lancashire, aged 29, Mrs. HENRY THORNELY.

Nov. 22, at his house, Chorlton Road, Manchester, in the 56th year of his age, Mr. JOHN OGLE CURTIS, for many years master of the Day and Sunday-schools in connection with the Unitarian congregations of Manchester. We shall willingly open our pages to an account of this useful and very estimable man.

GENERAL INDEX.

Action and contemplation, 622.
Acts xxi. 15, mistranslated, 175-vii. 59,
mistranslated, 178-xx. 28, 179.
Adelaide Unitarian church, 392, 716.
Ainsworth, Mr., of Cleator, 447.
American institutions, decadence of, 73.
Annals of England, reviewed, 637.
Antiquity, reverence for, 244.
Archæological pamphlets, 119.
Armstrong, Rev. George, retirement of,

59. Address at interment of, 573.
Obituary of, 592. Funeral sermon for,
772. Resolution in reference to, 774.
Ascension of Christ, 661.

Ashton, the late Thomas, Esq., 325.
Ashton, Rev. Joseph, on the Cleator ser-
vices, 447.

Aspland, Rev. R., and the Duke of Sus-
sex, 709.

Aspland's, Rev. R. B., speech, 320.
Aspland, Mr. Alfred, on mortuary re-
turns, 641.

Assyria and Nineveh, 594.
Augustus Cæsar, character of, 4.

B.'s, F., obituary notice of Rev. Francis
Knowles, 776.

Bache's, Rev. Samuel, speech, 320.
Bache, Mr. W. H., obituary of, 656.
Bacon's Essays, edited by Whately, 245.
Baxter, estimate of, 770.

Beard, Dr., speech of, 385. On Bible
Revision, reviewed, 529. Sermons by,
587, 712.

Beard's, Rev. C., speeches, 318, 327,
379, 452. Sermon, 434.

Belfast Unitarian Society, 389.
Belsham, Mr., characterized, 487.
Benefit of clergy, 181.

Bengal Civilian on Is. vii. 14, 112. Reply
to, 183.

Bible, need of a revised English, 65-
how to be obtained, 494.
Blessings of blindness, 703.

Blythe, Mr., his renunciation of Unita-
rianism, 438. A champion of the New
School, 441.

Boardman's, Mr. W., address to Mr.
Turner, 305.

Bolton District Unitarian Association,
388, 714.

Bowman, Mr. Eddowes, speech of, 317,
323. On Manchester New College, 764.

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Channing and Priestley, 169.
Channing's writings in France, 504.
Channing, Rev. W. H., speech of, 447.
Cherry, Francis, Esq., 697, 722.
Chester, ode to the city of, 495.
Chichester, meeting at, 311.

Christian Examiner, the Boston, 586.
Church government and congregational
management, 544.

Church livings, 775-held by laymen, 36.
City, the, its Sins and Sorrows, reviewed,
401.

Clarke, Rev. H., on his blindness, 703.
Claudius, character of, 15.
Cleator services, 588.

Clephan, Mr. Robert, obituary of, 656.
Coke, Sir Edward, imprisoned, 499.
Colston's, Rev. J., speech, 446.
Common Version of the New Testament,
582.

Constitutional questions in the reign of
James I., 408, 497.
Conservatism and reckless change, 221.

Cooper, Rev. Thomas, on Rev. H. Dun-
kerton, 719.

1 Cor. xi. 29, mistranslated, 177.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 33.
Coverdale's Bible, 532.

Cranmer, George, 34, 39, 40, 42.
Cranmer's Bible, 533.
Cromwell, Oliver, 722.

Cromwell, Richard, 723.

Cureton's, Mr., Ignatius, reviewed, 193.
Correction of an error by the reviewer,
378.

Curtis, Mr. J. O., obituary of, 778.
Curzon's Visits to Monasteries, 258.

Dare's Report of Leicester Mission, 122.
Davidson, Dr., and the Inspiration ques-
tion, 117.

Dean Row, Presbyterianism at, 445.
Deborah's song of triumph, 542.
Derby, meeting of ministers at, 444.
Dialogues on Universal Restitution, 120.
Dobson's, Mr., Preston in the Olden
Time, 119.

Dorling's Sermon on the Two Thousand,
707.

Dukinfield Sunday-school party, 654.
Dunkerton, Rev. Herbert, 654, 655, 719.
Dunn's, Mr., pamphlet on Unitarians and
British and Foreign School Society,
435.

E.'s lines, The Second Death, 271.
Edney, Mrs., on Anti-supernaturalism,
123.

Education Bill, 190.

Education of the people, 245, 448. Pe-
tition of ministers on, 448.
Ellis, Rev. G. E., Half-century of Uni-
tarian Controversy, 518. Late Editor
of Christian Examiner, 586, 589.
Enchiridion by Quarles, 185.
Encyclopædia Britannica, 113, 516.
Ephesians iv. 32, mistranslated, 176.
Epigrams on the two Universities, 735.
Erasmus and the text of the New Tes-
tament, 431.

Europa Speculum, by Sandys, 605.
Evangelical Alliance, meeting at Berlin,
629, 743.

Evans, Mr. Thomas Morgan, obituary
of, 62.

Ewart, Col. John, and Mrs., obituary of,
718.

Ezekiel xxix. 3, 10, xxx. 6, mistrans-
lated, 221.

Fell, Dr. John, 257.

Fellows, Emma Sarah, obituary of, 328.
Ferguson, Robert, the plotter, 732.
Ferrar, Thomas, friend of Sandys, 416.
Field's, Mr. E. W., speech, 382.
Firmin, Thomas, 724.

Forster's, Rev. Wm., Lamp of Beauty,

119. Speech at Unitarian Associa-
tion, 455. Fatherhood of God, 712.
Fox, Charles James, Memorials of, 770.
Free Public Libraries, 650.

Freeman, Mr. S. C., on Neo-Christian
communion, 43. On Unitarianism,
182.

Freestone's, Mr., speech, 325.

Fullagar Mr., on Old and New school,
430. On Unitarianism and Unitarians,
577.

г. on Scotch preaching, 393.
G., lines, Palsy of the Soul, 141.
G., S., on the decadence of America, 73.
Galileo and the Church of Rome, 72.
Gaskell's, Rev. W., Sermon, reviewed,
432.

Gaskell's, Mrs., Life of C. Brontë, 287.
Gee Cross, meeting of Sunday-School
Association at, 322.

Genesis i. 1-3, newly translated, 427—
ii. 18, newly translated, 538.
Gibson's, Mr. R. H., speech, 525.
Gibson's, Rev. R., speech, 526.
Gloomy theology, 636.

Glossop, Rev. E., obituary of, 328.
Gordon, Rev. J., on Unitarian Chris-

tianity, 21. On Christian union, 149.
Green's Sabbath School and the Church,
643.

Greg, Mr. S., on English Unitarianism,
82, 208.

Groningen University and its theology,

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Hall, Mr. Andrew, obituary of, 778.
Ham's, Rev. J. P., address at Swinton,
306.

Harp and the Cross, 711.

Harrop, Mr. Joseph, obituary of, 328.
Harvard College, divinity school of, 589.
Hawkes, Miss Ann, obituary of, 64.
Hawkes, Miss S., obituary of, 778.
Hearne, Thomas, some account of, 696,
721.

Hegesippus and the Syriac Gospel, 17.
Hibbert's, Mr. Joseph, account of Hyde,
119.

Higginson, Rev. E., on Christian union,
in reply to Mr. Tayler, 157. Extract
from Spirit of the Bible, 162.
Hill, Mr. G. P. T., obituary of, 464.
Hincks, Rev. Dr., memoir of, 228.

Hinde, Mr. Charles, obituary of, 61.
History of the Unitarians," its author,
724.

Holland's, Mr., poem, Niagara, 78.
Hooker, Richard, 33.

Hume, David, his sickness and death,
113.

Hymns of Consolation for the Bereaved,
772.

Ignatius, his Martyrdom and Epistles,
193.

Inquirer, admirable article in the, 593.
Inspiration, the natural and supernatural,

329.

Isaiah vii. 14, remarks on, 57, 111, 183

-xlii. 11, mistranslated, 220.

James's, King, Translation of Bible, 534.
James's, Rev. William, sermon, 450.
Address at funeral of Rev. G. Arm-
strong, 573. Funeral sermon, 772.
Jerusalem, prophecy of the destruction
of, 762.

Job xi. 6, mistranslated, 176.
John i. mistranslated, 179.

1 John iii. 16, mistranslated, 178-v. 7,
mistranslated, 180.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 115.

Jonah, the prophet and the book, 143–
i. 8, translation of, 538.

Jones, Rev. R. C., ordination of, 444.
Judges v., translation of, 542.

K.'s review of Merivale's History, 1.
On Martyrdom and Epistles of Igna-
tius, 193, 257.

Kant's anti-supernaturalism, 516.
Kell, Mr., on Wroxhall Barrows, 119.
On persecution at Newbury, 774.
Kenrick, Rev. J., on Mr. Paget's letter,
361. His sermon on Unitarians of
Transylvania, 374-on Reproof, 433.
Address to students at College exa-
mination, 459.
Knowles, Rev. Francis, obituary of, 719,
776. Letter by, 772.

Lamson's Sermons, 254.
Laud, Archbishop, 512-and Leighton,
708.

Lawrence's, Mr. J. C., address, 326.
Lectures by Mr. Porter, &c., 192.
Locke, John, 725.

Long, Mr., in reply to Mr. Tayler, 203,
275, 369. Speech of, 316. On English
Unitarianism, 486. Reply to, by Mr.
Tagart, 550.

Luke xxiii. 32, mistranslated, 176.
Luther's four ages, 406. Bunsen on,
517. His translation of the Scriptures,
517, 531.

Lyon, Mrs. Robert, obituary of, 592.

781

Macaulay on Dr. Johnson, 114.
Macdonald's, Mr., ode to Chester, 495.
Macgregor on Law of Reformatories, 129.
MacLeod, Norman, of Glasgow, 395.
Macnaught's Doctrine of Inspiration,
329.

"Magic-lanthorn school" of writers, 250.
sociation, 322.
Manchester District Sunday-School As-

Manchester New College, annual meet-
ing of, 124. Proceedings of the Com-
mittee, 189. Special meeting of Trus-
tees, 312, 379. Annual examination,
457. Hebrew lectureship at, 588.
Mr. Bowman
Opening address, 657.

on, 764.
Manchester Treasures of Art, visit to, 528.
Manning, Rev. W., of Diss, some account
of, 278-of Diss and Weeting, 285-
ejected minister of Middleton, 286.
Marian martyrs, 97.
Mardon's, Rev. Benjamin, speech, 380.

Martin, Rev. S., on Rev. F. Knowles,
Marriages, 128, 462, 528, 656, 717, 775.
778.

Martineau, Mr., 189, 190, 312, 322, 380,
389, 528, 583, 586, 705, 763.
Martineau, Mr. Russell, 528.
Matthew xx. 2, its translation, 538.
Mead, Dr. Richard, 733.

Merivale's History of the Romans, re-
viewed, 1.

Methodism, beneficial influence of, 768.
Milton, John, 724.

Ministers' Benevolent Society, 773.
Minister's retrospect, 98, 222, 354, 417,
478, 544, 614, 688, 737.
Miracles, 159, 266.
Mistranslations of English Bible, 174.
Modbury, religious state of, in 1787,

172.

Moore, Rev. Henry, of Liskeard, 170.
Letter of, to Mr. Bretland, 172.
Mortuary returns fallacious, 641.
lines on, 484.
Mystery,

N., J., on Isaiah vii. 14, 57, 183.
Nahum iii. 8, mistranslated, 221.
National Association for the Promotion
of Social Science, 750.
New, Mrs., obituary of, 592.
Neo-Christian communion, 43.
Newbury, violation of religious liberty
at, 774.

Newcastle Church of Divine Unity, 309.
Niagara, a poem, 78.

author's reply to a criticism on, 765.
Nineveh and the Assyrians, 593. The
Nobility, 110.

Noel, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, obituary
of, 463.
Northborne Court, 407

North-of-England Unitarian Association,
653.

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Plague of 1603, 410, note.
Popple, Miss, the late, 456.
Poynting's, Rev. T. E., speech at Swin.
ton, 309-and others' address to Mr.
Martineau, 388. Sermon at Provin-
cial Meeting, 445.

Prescott, Mr., on the slow progress of
Unitarianism, 51.

Price, Sydney, on the wants of Unita-
rians, 509.

Priestley, Dr., vindicated, 29, 550-and
Channing, 169. His influence on Uni-
tarianism, 486.

Protest of 62 Trustees against the pro-
ceedings of the College Committee,
312, 587.

Provincial Meeting, 328, 445.

Psalm 1xxix. 8, lxxxviii. 13, mistrans-
lated, 175-civ. 4, mistranslated, 176
-lv. 15, mistranslated, 177.
Psi's translation of Gen. i. 1-3, 427.

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Rodick, Jas. Dawson, obituary of, 62.
Roman noble's day described, 9.
Rom. v. 11, ix. 5, mistranslated, 178, 179.
Ronge, Johannes, on the Reform com-
munities of Germany, 760.

Russell's, Lord J., Memorials of Fox,
770.

Ryland, Mr. F., obituary memoir of, 255.
Ryland's, Rev. J. H., speech, 319. Ser-
mon, Religion Everywhere, 711.
Sacheverell, Dr., 725, 728.
Sandys, Archbishop, 32, 38.
Sandys, Col. Edwin, 504.
Sandys, George, 39, 413, 605.
Sandys, Samuel, 39.

Sandys, Sir Edwin, life, character and
writings of, 32, 407, 497, 603.
Saint Columb-kill, 673.

Sarpi Paul (Father Paul) of Venice, 40.
School-keeping of Unitarian ministers,
688.

Sears', E. H., Pictures of the Olden
Time, 120.

Seldon, John, imprisoned, 499.
S., G. V., on Jonah, 143.
Siam and its People, 234.

Simon, M., on Liberty of Conscience,

465.

Shaen's, Mr., speech, 386.

Sharpe, Mr., on some mistranslations of
the Old Testament, 220.
Sheldon's, Mr., sermons on Sin, 115.
Short, H. L., obituary of, 328.
Short's, Rev. J. L., speech, 524.
Slavery in America, origin of, 414.
Slow growth necessary to long life, 112.
Smale, Miss Mary, 256.

Smith, Professor W., obituary of, 718.
Smith, Rev. G. V., testimonial to, 461.

His Translation of the Prophecies, 593.
Solly, Rev. H., on Mr. Tayler's letter,
54. His discourse, What are we to
Preach about? 649.

Sound Protestant doctrine, 416.
Southern Unitarian Fund Society, 311,
522.

Speculative, 148.

Steinthal, Ernestina, obituary of, 656.

Stratford, Unitarian chapel at, 655.

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