aggrandizement of the Son of God, in the co-equal and co-eternal glories of the FATHER; and stating fully what a discovery of a recent occurrence, and, to our minds, of a very extraordinary nature, (we allude to the doctrine of the Milton manuscript,) may render it appropriate to the present moment for us to repeat; namely, the history of the progress made, through the different stages of ARIANISM, at length to the chill and sunless regions of Lælius and Faustus Socinus. We have no space for extracts, and can only add our unfeigned and hearty wish to see this admirable series of Trinitarian sermons receive all the publicity they deserve.

In consistency indeed with ourselves, we should recommend the omission of one sermon from the series, the twenty-first, on the Process of Salvation by the Lord Jesus and the Spirit of God. In this we find, according to our expectation, much of the process before hinted atin other sermons on the same subject: and we cannot but sincerely and affectionately recommend to the respected author a reconsideration, both logically and scripturally, of the several statements therein contained. We think he will then find that regeneration embraces sanctification as well as justification; that the adult and the infant in baptism are not the only persons justified by faith, "strictly speaking," and the infant merely upon an implied profession of faith; that sanctification is not that which preserves any more than causes justification, but is always caused and necessarily preserved by true justification; that "strictly speaking" neither repentance nor good works are the condition of our justification, but faith only, though such a faith as necessarily produces both repentance, obedience, and holiness; and that such a mode of statement is more

intelligible, Scriptural, and primitive in the reformed church, than that which makes us "justified by

faith only," because repentance is made available to present justification, and good works are made acceptable and available to final justification, "only through the merits of Christ received by faith."

On the whole, in taking our leave of this respectable author, we are fain to say that his misconceptions, if such they are, belong to others, his excellencies to himself. We make the later school of legal justification (let the term be pardoned) responsible for the imperfect, and even the Antinomian views at which we have hinted; and which it really entertains itself, whilst it sometimes charges them upon another class. That is really the Antinomian scheme, which makes the world easy in its worldliness, the formalist in his forms, the imperfect in their imperfections. This then we consider to be done most nearly, however unintentionally, by those who, for proofs of regeneration, simply refer to the parish register; who, for union with Christ, substitute, as synonimous, union with an external form; and for true holiness, read imperfect, but sincere obedience. We say not that this is now done by any in the extent we here state it. But it is an approximation to it that we fear. It is the encouragement of it in others by leading expressions of our own. It is the adoption of a style looking that way, and which is found, in consequence, however earnest, seldom effective in practical exhortation.

intention of founding two honorary Prizes, being medals of the value of fifty guineas each, to be annually awarded in such manner as should, after due consideration, seem best calculated to promote the ends for which the Royal Society was founded.

At a late meeting of the Royal Society of Literature, the Secretary read a paper by Dr. J. Jamieson, containing a collection of various superstitions relating to the Ternary Number. So general, among the ancients in the middle ages, and with the vulgar of times immediately connected with our own, was the ascription of a peculiar virtue to the number three, that some reference to it was formerly mixed up with nearly all the actions and circumstances of human life. Of this, Dr. Jamieson adduces many curious instances. To the Triad was supposed to belong a mystical perfection, conveyed in auspicious influences to all affairs in which it was employed.

The magnificent structure of Fonthill Abbey has become a pile of ruins; the tower having fallen in and destroyed the hall, the octagon, and various other parts of the building.

FRANCE.

There has been lately discovered at Caen, in Normandy, a collection of manuscripts of the celebrated Huet, Bishop of Avranches, with a large autograph correspondence of the most celebrated persons of the age of Louis XIV.

M. B. de Chateauneuf, having been requested by the Institute of France to investigate the subject of the influence of vaccination on population, has presented a memoir to the academy, in which he states that the mortality of children is much less at present, in France, than it was in the last century; particularly, from the birth to the age of five years. Before the introduction of vaccination, the deaths of children up to five years of age were in the proportion of 50 in 100. Since the introduction of vaccination, the proportion has been reduced to 37 in 100. The number of children vaccinated since 1811 throughout the kingdom, has not risen above three fifths; and in the capital it has only amounted to a seventh. Although the diminished mortality amongst children, and the increase of population, evidently result in a great measure from vaccination, it would not be reasoning justly to attribute them exclusively to it.

GENEVA.

M. Marcet has communicated to the Society of Physic and Natural History at

Geneva, a series of experiments to prove that, though plants seem to be destitute of organs corresponding to the nerves of animals, they are capable of being affected by such poisons as act upon the latter class, in a manner analogous to that in which animals are affected by them.

UNITED STATES.

The stupendous project of uniting Lake Eri and the Atlantic Ocean, by means of a canal, has been accomplished, and steam boats are now passing from the one to the other. The project of uniting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic, across the isthmus of Florida, continues to occupy public attention.

The following view of the United States is taken from the American newspapers:The American Government exercises dominion over a country more extensive, and which will support more inhabitants than that of any other nation upon the earth. The sun is four hours in its passage, from the time when it first shines on the eastern shores of Maine till it strikes the waters of the Pacific: it is about four months in passing through the degrees of latitude of the United States, in its northern and southern declination; embracing six varieties of climate. The United States contain twelve hundred million acres of land, of which we may calculate that one-fifteenth part is cultivated. The whole of the exports are 74,000,000 dollars, and of the imports 77,000,000. the tonnage, in foreign and coasting trade, is 1,200,000 dollars. The population of the United States is twelve millions; which, at the ratio of increase for the past, will double in 23 years. There is now, to every hundred acres of land, one person.

At a recent examination of the public schools in Philadelphia, it was stated, that of 13,000 pupils who have been educated in the public schools of that city, but two individuals have been convicted of crime. PERSIA.

A letter written to Mr. Wolf, the Jewish Missionary, by Prince Abbas Mirza, in the usual style of oriental hyperbole, announces, that "since the very exalted, very learned, and very virtuous, the chosen of Christian scholars, Mr. Joseph Wolf, of England, has been admitted into our august presence, and has presented to us, in the name of the very noble lord, the model of the great ones of Christianity, the honourable Henry Drummond, a request tending to obtain the institution of a college in the royal residence of Tabriz, where English professors may fix their residence in order to instruct and give

lessons to children: and whereas the moral dispositions of persons high in rank ought always to be favourable to what is good and useful; and whereas there exists between this power (Persia)-the duration of which may God prolong !——and

that of England, no difference of views or interests, this request has been agreeable to us. We have, therefore, permitted the aforesaid person to establish the said school."

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CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE

SANDWICH ISLANDS. THE Sandwich Islands are ten in number, and bear the following names, written according to the orthography adopted by the

missionaries, who have given to the people of those islands a written language, viz. Hawaii, Maùi, Tahurawa, Ranai, Morokai, Oahu, Taûai, Niihau, Taura, and Morokini.

Most of the islands are mountainous, and the mountains rise sometimes to a great height. The summits of Mounakea and Mounaroa, on Hawaii, are not less than 15,000 feet high, thus ascending into the region of perpetual congelation. That these lofty piles had a volcanic origin there can be no doubt. The marks of ancient craters are numerous upon them.

Hawaii exhibits much to the beholder that is grand and sublime. Some portions of the islands are remarkably fertile; other portions have but a scanty vegetation; and others are nothing but barren lava. The chief production are sweet potatoes, taro, and, in some of the islands, yams; bananas, sugarcane, water-melons, musk-melons, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, and the cloth plant, are also cultivated, together with a few oranges and pine-apples. The population of the islands is estimated at 130,000. They are now subject to one government, consisting of a king, and a considerable body of chiefs. The government is hereditary. The king is regarded as owning all the lands, and possesses unlimited The lands are divided among the chiefs, who held them from the king, on condition of paying tribute. The people again hold the lands from the chiefs to whom they pay a certain portion of the produce. Within their own territorial limits, the power of the chiefs is absolute. The operation of this system upon the people is said to be very oppressive.

power.

The character of the inhabitants, so far as they are unaffected by the instructions of the missionaries, is described as lamentably debased. Theft, treachery, drunkenness, impurity, and infanticide, are awfully prevalent. The social and domestic virtues are little known. Polygamy is common, and murder by poison is believed by the natives to be very frequent.

The ancient system of idolatry operated only on the fears of its votaries. Its requisitions were severe, and its rites cruel and bloody. Grotesque and horrid wooden figures, auimals, and the bones of chiefs, were the objects of worship. Human sacrifices were offered. The several professions had each their presiding deities.

The system of idolatry, so far as it was connected with the government, was abolished in 1819, before Christian missionaries came into the island. At that time, missionaries were on their way from the United States, and a few months after wards arrived.

In 1820, Messrs. Bingham and Thurston, the two clerical members of the mis

sion, were introduced to the king at Kairua, the principal place on Hawaii, where he than resided. They laid before him the design of their embassy, and requested permission to settle, as religious teachers, on the different islands. Some opposed; but the king said, "Let them remain a year, and we shall know what to do." The missionaries found the language altogether unwritten; and the great prevalence of liquid sounds rendered it exceedingly difficult to settle the orthography. They however applied themselves diligently to the work, and made continual and very encouraging progress. An alphabet was agreed upon, in which every sound had its appropriate sign. Every word is spelled exactly as it is pronounced, and thus the art of reading and writing the language is rendered simple and easy.

In the beginning of 1822, so much progress had been made, that the printing press, which the missionaries had carried with them from America, and which is doubtless to become a mighty means of promoting knowledge and religion in the islands, was put into operation, and the first sheet of a Hawaiian spelling-book was printed. This work was soon in great demand among the natives.

But though considerable instruction had been imparted, through interpreters, and by other means, none of the missionaries had made so much progress in the language as to preach to the natives without an interpreter, until the arrival of the Rev. Wm. Ellis, in the spring of 1822. Mr. Ellis had laboured six years in the Society Islands, under the London Missionary Society, was well acquainted with the Tahitian language, and found the analogy between that and the Hawaiian dialect so great, that in a few weeks he was able to use the latter fluently. He accordingly soon began to preach the Gospel to large and attentive auditories. Thus strengthened, the progress of the mission was much accelerated; and an additional impulse was given by the arrival of other missionaries from America, There are now six missionary stations ;-on Hawaii, three; on Oahu, one; on Maui, one; on Tuai, one. At each of these places a church has been erected by the chiefs, and public worship is regularly attended on the Sabbath. Schools are established at the several stations, embracing, in the whole, more than a thousand scholars. In many instances, the more forward pupils have been sent into other districts as teachers, and the ability to read and write is daily extending among the people.