but moral restrictions, and requires no appropriations but such as it will conduce to their own happiness to make, will eventually pervade every portion of the community; and that while it teaches them to render a reasonable homage and obedience to the only living and true God, and prepares them for the enjoyment of his presence in a future state, it will elevate the degraded classes, especially the females, to the rank and influence for which they were designed, and render their domestic society as rational and happy, as under the tabu it was abject and wretched."

Lines on a Monument in the Chancel of Ramsbury Church, written to the Memory of Miss Eleanora Burdett, who died Nov. 27, 1797, aged 26 Years, by her Brother, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.

[This Epitaph has been published and republished in the newspapers: whether it be correctly attributed to the Patriotic Baronet, we have no means of ascertaining.]

Nor formal duty prompts these mournful lays;
No painted show of grief these lines impart;
No cold, unfeeling, stale. insipid praise

But sorrow, flowing from the o'erfraught heart.
No need hast thou of monumental verse,

Lamented maid! to prove thy worth was high; The widow's tear bedews thy modest hearse;

Thy name is honour'd with the poor man's sigh.

The sons of want, with unavailing woe,

To heaven their eyes in anguish must uprear, A thousand blessings on thy name bestow,

Hang o'er thy grave, and drop the silent tear. "Alas!" they cry, "that feeling heart is cold, That lib'ral band which gave to all relief, That tongue, whose sweetness never can be told, Which charmed our ears, and soothed our sharpest grief!"

If thou can'st look, bright angel! from above,
As to thy God thou bend'st th' adoring knee,

Accept this tribute of a brother's love,

And in thy orisons remember me!

SIR,

Unitarianism of 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28.

I was very much struck, a short time since, in reading the 27th and 28th verses of the 15th chapter of 1 Cor. : they appear to me almost sufficient to end the controversy respecting the equality of Christ to the Father. The words are the following: "For he hath put all things under him. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that He is excepted that did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son himself be subject unto him that did put all things under him, that God may be all in all." Observe how cautious the apostle seems of giving more than due glory to Christ, and, as if he was fearful of being misunderstood when he declares he is head over all things, he also adds, that he that gave him his power was superior even to him. I am not aware of any method by which a Trinitarian can evade the force of these passages; for it must be self-evident, if Christ has been or will be in subjection to the Father, he cannot be truly and properly God: it is true he might make a Miltonian deity, but not the being to whom we could give the title of the " Only Potentate.'

A BEREAN.

"Orthodox" Neglect of the Gospel.

A CORRESPONDENT in Wales has sent us a list of the texts preached from in a Wesleyan chapel for three successive months, with the following remark: "From this statement it will be seen that out of thirty-one sermons, delivered in three months, only, six texts have been drawn from the gospels, and not one from the Acts of the Apostles. Can it be said in this case that the command of Christ (Mark xvi. 15) has been attended to ?"

The same correspondent observes: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.' 1 Cor. xv. 26. It is now publicly taught that man is (naturally) immortal; now if this doctrine be true, there is no enemy to destroy. And though it is taught by the Arminians that man does not wholly die, because he is immortal, yet they believe (strange as it may appear), that the supreme God died, though he is immortal also; hence they sing in their places of worship,

"O Love Divine! what hast thou done?
The immortal God hath died for me.'

Again,

"The Immortal hangs his languid brow,

The Almighty faints beneath his load.'

"Call us not unbelievers because we refuse to believe an impossibility, that a God died, who is described by the great Apostle as Eternal, Immortal, and Invisible. 1 Tim.

i. 7."

INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Harding's Journal of a Missionary Tour in the West of England.

SIR, Cranbrook, June 17, 1826. IF you should think the following account of my Missionary labours in the west of England will be acceptable to your numerous readers, and in the smallest degree useful to the cause of divine truth, the insertion of the same in the Christian Reformer, will oblige yours,

M. HARDING.

My connexion with the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Association (after acting as Missionary for 4 years in the two counties, during which I travelled, chiefly on foot, nearly 7000 miles, and preached nearly 700 times, with a success which proves, that Unitarianisin needs only the support and hearty co-operation of its real friends, to secure a glorious triumph over ignorance, superstition, and vice), being dissolved for want of sufficient funds, I accepted an invitation from the Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association, to act as their Missionary for 6 months, and proceeded forthwith to the west of England, and arrived safely at Taunton, Nov 12, 1825. The next day, being Sunday, preached three times. The congregation is respectable in numbers, character, and property; as are indeed all the congregations in this part of the west.

Tuesday 15th, proceeded to Ilminster and Crewkerne, but did not preach at either of the above places, the friends not deeming it prudent to open their chapels on week evenings. I then travelled to Bridport, preached there Thursday evening 17th, and Sunday morning 20th, to rather large congregations. After the morning service, went to Crewkerne, and preached there in the evening to a comparatively large and serious company. Tuesday 22nd, walked to Ilminster. Mr. Whitfield the worthy Unitarian minister here, conceiving he had made arrangements for preaching the next evening at Chard, a populous manufacturing town, 13 miles S. S. E. of Taunton, I immediately proceeded thither, but on my arrival was disappointed, not being able to procure a room. The place it was supposed I should have occupied, belongs to a few individuals late in connexion

with the Rev. Mr. Baring, who contend that "the perfection. of the Scriptures hath altogether superseded preaching." I had between two and three hours' conversation with them, in the course of which I perceived they were decidedly Antitrinitarians, serious and intelligent, but strongly prepossessed in favour Af Calvinistic election, &c. There are many of this description in this part of the kingdom. The next day returned to Taunton, and on Friday evening preached at Wellington, Somerset, 15 miles N. E. of Exeter, in a private house, to a small company of serious persons, chiefly raised by the exertions of the Rev. H. Clarke, of Frenchay. Saturday 26th, travelled to Bridgewater, and the next day preached three times to very small congregations. Here are abundant materials for a flourishing cause. Tuesday 29th, returned to Taunton, and preached there in the evening to a tolerable company. Wednesday walked to Bridport, and preached there, Thursday evening 1st, and Sunday 4th of December, afternoon and evening, to large congregations. Wednesday 7th, went to Crewkerne, and preached there for the first and last time, on a week evening to a small number. The next morning proceeded a second time to Chard, and failed again in getting a room to preach in, but succeeded in discovering a respectable inhabitant, long reputed an infidel, to be an intelligent Unitarian Christian, who promised to aid the Mission here as far as his influence extended. Saturday 10th, proceeded to Yeovil, and preached there three times the next day, to small but attentive congregations. Tuesday following, travelled to Langport, a small town, where I had a very pleasing interview with a Unitarian gentleman residing there, who promised to aid the cause at Bridgewater. Wednesday 14th, went back to Taunton, preached there the next evening to a good company, and the following evening at Wellington to a few. Saturday 17th, journeyed to Bridgewater, and preached there twice the next day, to rather larger congregations. 23rd, preached again at Wellington, and 25th, three times at Taunton-in the evening to a very large congregation. 28th, preached at Honiton, a small town in Devon, to a very small company; thence proceeded to Ilminster, and on Sunday, 1st of January, 1826, preached there three times; in the afternoon and evening to large congregations. Sunday 8th, preached three times at Crewkerne, to attentive, and rather larger companies. 15th, three times at Yeovil, to congregations improved in number. Friday 20th, preached at Wellington, and on the 22nd, at Taunton three times, to increasingly large congregations. Sunday 29th, at Ilminster, three times; in the evening about 500 were present. Thursday, Feburary 2nd, and Sunday 5th, preached four times at Bridport; in the evening about 600 persons were present. 12th, at Crewkerne three times, to tolerable congregations. 19th, in the morning at Bridgewater, to rather a large, and in the evening at Taunton

to a very large congregation. 22nd, at Wellington, and 26th, in the morning at Crewkerne, and the afternoon and evening at Ilminster, to uncommonly large companies, the evening congre gation amounting to not less than 600. This increase, under God, is to be mainly attributed to the zealous exertions of two pious and respectable young females, who, to their honour be it spoken, actually traversed the town, leaving printed notice papers at the respective houses. Thursday evening, March 2nd, and Sunday 5th, preached three times at Bridport, to the usual number. Monday 6th, walked to Ilminster, a distance of 21 miles, being one of the most tempestuous days I ever travelled in. This journey was undertaken for the purpose of officiating at the funeral of a Unitarian minister's widow. Having performed this engagement, I proceeded to Bridgewater, and Sunday 12th, preached there three times, to larger congregations than common. 15th, preached the last time at Wellington, and on the 19th, three times at Taunton. In the evening had the pleasure of concluding in the presence of a large congregation, a course of twelve Lectures, by different Ministers, which I trust will be productive of great and lasting good.

In consequence of an invitation from the Committee of the Wilts and North Somerset Association, to preach their annual sermon, I left Taunton for Bristol, March 22nd, and arrived there in the evening. The next day proceeded to Frenchay. The next morning preached the Association sermon, to a large congregation, especially considering the unfavourable state of the weather. After the devotional service and the business of the meeting were concluded, the company retired to an inn, two miles distant, sat down to a good plain dinner, in number about sixty-two, and spent the afternoon in a highly pleasing and profitable manner. The next morning travelled to Bath, and in company with a worthy and zealous young friend walked to Marshfield, a small town in Gloucestershire, where there is a tolerably good old meeting-house with a small endowment, both of which would have fallen into the hands of the Independents (who seem to make a merit of depriving us of our places of worship) but for the commendable zeal and perseverance of two resident ladies, in conjunction with the Committee of the Wilts and North Somerset Association. This, with other instances, demonstrates the vast utility of provincial Associations and active Committees. Sunday 26th, preached twice here to very small congregations. The interest at Marshfield is at present very low; but the zeal and prudence of the friends and Committee, will, by the blessing of God, infuse new life. Tuesday 28th, proceeded to Calne, in Wiltshire, once the residence of the venerable Dr. Priestley, and preached there the next evening to a tolerable company. Here also, the interest is very low, but with a fair prospect of being revived, if the friends there do but heartily co-operate with their Association, which, it is to be