INTELLIGENCE. Tenterden District Meeting. THE Eighth Anniversary of this Brauch of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Chris tian Association, was held at Tenterden, on Wednesday, the 19th of October. Mr. George Buckland, of Benenden, read the Scriptures and offered up the general prayer. Mr. Payne, of Rolvenden, preached an excellent discourse from Colossians iii. 16: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another." After the religious services ninetyseven individuals, of both sexes, adjourned to the Town Hall, where tea was provided. After tea Mr. Holden was called to preside. One of the first toasts was the King King: to mention his name is now something more than a mere form, this is shewn by the way in which it is received in all assemblies and for whatever purpose met. In the course of the evening speeches on various subjects were elicited by the sentiments proposed by the chairman; but whatever the topic, there were continual allusions more or less distinct to the great question. Was the topic the coming conquests of truth? Reform would do much for the truth, by removing the supports of error. Was the subject colonial slavery ? Grant but Reform, and soon will the mandate be given, to let the oppressed be free. Even the passing of the Unitarian Marriage Bill was considered to be contingent on the success of that measure to which all thoughts are turned. City Missions, and Unitarianism in India, were also amongst the topics to which the attention of the meeting was directed. The individuals who took a principal share in the discussions of the evening, were Messrs. George Buckland, Mace, E. Adams, Payne, Ford, and Talbot. Ε. Τ. Τ. Opening of the New Unitarian Cha- seventy, to a dinner which had been pel, Wolverhampton. On Tuesday, the 18th instant, the Snowhill Chapel, Wolverhampton, was opened for public worship. An interval of nearly fifteen years has now elapsed, since the congregation assembling in this chapel, were unjustly expelled from their former place of worship in John's Street. During this period, they regularly assembled for public worship in a school-room, having the services conducted by one of their own members, with the occassional assistance of neighbouring ministers. The attendance on this occasion, and the liberal contributions of many of the members of different churches around them, evinced the steady progress of liberal and charitable feelings. Among the numerous congregations which attended on the various services on the day of opening, and the succeeding Sunday, they had the happiness to number many of the most strenuous and consistent supporters of the Established Church, and have reason to hope, that many went away impressed with a more favourable opinion of Unitarian Christianity, and feeling that though its professors may differ from them in many of their distinguishing doctrines, they are yet not wholly unworthy of the name of Christians and brethren. The morning sermon, on the day of opening, was preached by the Rev. John Kentish, of Birmingham, who, in a most luminous, eloquent, and powerful discourse, pointed out the grounds of our dissent from the Established Church of this country. He was followed, with great ability, in the evening sermon, by the Rev. Samuel Bache, of Dudley, who, with great force of argument and warmth of piety, illustrated the unity which the Scriptures represent as subsisting between Jesus Christ and his God and Father, with the powerful motives which this doctrine presents to his followers, to imitate his example in spirit and in conduct, and thus become joint partakers with him of the "divine nature." After the morning service, the members of the congregation, with their friends, sat down, to the number of provided at the New Hotel. On Sunday, the 23d instant, notwithstanding the unfavourableness of the weather, the two services were most numerously attended. In the morning, the Rev. Stephenson Hunter, the minis ter of the congregation, stated and defended the distinguishing doctrines of Unitarianism; and in the evening the Rev. Hugh Hutton, of the Old Meeting, Birmingham, with the impressive eloquence for which that gentleman is remarkable, pointed out the richness of divine grace, as more particularly displayed in the Christian dispensation. S. H. British and Foreign Bible Society. In continuation of the Lists, printed in our last Number, made up to the 16th of September (not the 6th) we subjoin a List of Fifty one additional Societies adverse to any Alteration in the Constitution. Acle Branch, Bath Auxiliary, Beccles Brauch, Bedfordshire Auxiliary, Bishop-Stortford Branch, Blaenavon Auxiliary, Bodmin Branch Society, Bradford (Wilts) Branch, Bridlington Auxiliary, Bridport Branch, Brigg Auxiliary, Bury (Lancashire) Auxiliary, Chippenham Association, Clerkenwell (South) Association, Corwen Branch, Croydon Auxiliary, Cuckfield Branch, Dunstable Branch, Exeter Ladies' Branch, Festiniog Branch, Gloucestershire Auxiliary, Halifax Auxiliary, Halifax Ladies' Branch, Hauts (North-East) Auxiliary, Henley (Oxon) Auxiliary, Hitchin and Baldock Auxiliary, Hungerford Branch, Kidderminster Auxiliary, Loughborough Branch, Luton Branch, Malmesbury Auxiliary, Marshland Brauch, Merionethshire Auxiliary, Newark Auxiliary, New. castle-upon-Tyne Ladies' Association, Newport-Pagnel Branch, Pentonville Association, Penzance Branch, Reading Auxiliary, Scarborough Auxiliary, Ships. ton-on-Stour Auxiliary, South-Shields Auxiliary, St. Columb Branch, Tavistock Auxiliary, Tring and Berkhanıstead Branch, Wandsworth Ladies' Association, Weald-of-Kent Auxiliary, Wey. mouth Branch, Whitby Auxiliary, Woodbridge Branch, York Auxiliary. List of Two additional Societies favourable Brewham and Pitscombe Association, LITERARY NOTICE. THE Subscribers to Dr. Priestley's Works are requested to take notice that Vol. I. Part I., containing the Memoirs and Correspondence from 1733 to 1787, is now deli for delivery, at the Unitarian Association Rooms, 3, Walbrook Buildings, near the Mansion House. CORRESPONDENCE. H. C. E. will find all the information we can give in p. 796. We need not remind him that the fact does not necessarily imply the assigned cause. The Editor must hold himself excused from discussing the insertion or rejection of communications, or of parts of communications to which the name of the writer is not attached. The inconveniences of such a practice are obvious. The notice of several publications which have been sent to our office is unavoidably deferred to the next number. We are also obliged to postpone various communications from Correspondents which are intended for insertion. We beg to remind our friends and Correspondents that in future all communications for the Editor, Advertisements, &c., must be addressed, post-paid, to the care of the publisher, Mr. Charles Fox, Monthly Repository Office, 67, Pater noster Row, and there only. Advertisements from the country should be accompanied by an order for payment in London. INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND OF BOOKS REVIEWED OR NOTICED. 118 725 A. Booth's Analytical Dictionary, 113 Brewster's Life of Newton, 143, 287 Abraham, conversion of, Ashworth on Unitarianism at Roch- 249 144 123 714 840 Brock, Rev. J. B., his settlement at 652 Buckminster's Second Volume of Sermons, 277 Burder's Oriental Customs, 536 Burroughs on the Principle of the Chorus to the Psalms, ib. Morality, 279 Atonement, letter on the subject of, 786 Charter, the New, 855 Autumnal Birds, 750 Cholera, remarks upon, by a Physi- cian, 779 B. Christian character, on the Forma- tion of, 805 Baillie, Mrs. Joanna, on the Nature Christian Patriotism, 376 Christianity an intellectual good, 440 574 Salisbury, 754 Church of England, corrupt state Beale on Distortions of the Spine, 548 of, 627 Church Establishment founded in 489 Bernay's German Anthology, 281- Church Property, History and Mys- Exercises, 299 Bird's Framlingham, 286 Birmingham Grammar School, 211 Bishops, a Word to, 853 Church, the, its Establishment In- Books for Children, 679 defensible, 853 OBITUARY.-Alcock, Lieut.-Col. 717 235, 369, 601, 763 Observer Newspaper, extract from, 203 Sacred Histories for Children, 852 |