indulge the hope that others will continue to issue the monthly numbers of the Panoplist after the present generation of writers and readers are laid in the dust. But if the affection of our friends should languish, and our prospects should be dark and dubious, we shall be compelled, however reluctantly, to abandon the prosecution of our plans, and to relinquish a work which we honestly believe to be useful to the rising generation, and to the Christian community; a work to the execution of which a regard to pecuniary advantages (or, as we hope, any other unworthy motive) has never prompted us. In this volume, the attention of the American people has been called, more explicitly than at any former period, to the interesting subject of Foreign Missions. Many instances of very exalted beneficence we have had the pleasure to record. The zeal, the unanimity, the activity, and the cheerful offerings of Christians in this cause, are truly admirable; they are worthy of devout acknowledgment, and fervent gratitude; and they should excite every friend of Christ and his church to pray, that the same beneficent spirit may be continued and blessed till idolatry, ignorance, and the evil passions, shall give place to the advancing glories of the millennium. From a large part of the Panoplist having been devoted to the subject of missions, and to some other subjects of a practical nature, it has followed, that less room has been afforded for the plain and important doctrines of the Gospel, than would have been desirable. This deficiency we hope will be supplied hereafter; and we, therefore, cordially invite some of cur correspondents to lend their aid, in stating and proving, in a plain, familiar manner, the leading doctrines of Divine Revelation. Boston, May 30, 1812. INDEX OF THE ESSAYS, INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. to the churches of New American attempts to extend Amusements of mankind, a proof of depravity 307 Apostasy of our first parents, re- marks on 56 Arithmetic applied to moral pur- poses Association of ideas Association, General, of Massa- chusetts Proper, meet- 300 ing of 84 rules of 87 Cent Societies, thoughts on donations to 92 573 cessity of 3 294 93 ib. 304 380 232 Contempt, nature of Asylum for the destitute 556 Corban Society in Boston Bowdoin, Hon. James 240 Death of Bougainville, Couut de 336 Death of Moore, Homer, Esq. 285 Mosely, Dr. Thomas ib. Burke, Mrs. widow of the Chapin, Mrs. Anna Donations to Foreign Missions 187, Foreign Missionary Society of Dutch settlements in India in the U. S. and S. - Northampton and the Foreign Missionary Society, Sa- 571 co and Biddeford branch of the 570 302 East Guilford, revival of religion Lewdness, a proof of depravity 306 New Works 47,94,142,190,236,281, 426 Magdalen Asylum at Edinburgh "374 [335,381,475,525 Marsden, Rev. Samuel, life and Bartlett, Rev. John, (Marblehead) 47 Bartlett, Rev. John, Mayhew, Mr. Jeremiah, life and (Warren, N. Y.) 280 Bushnell, Rev. Calvin 188 |