on the duties of a Christian minister; and the uniform accordance of his life with his precepts must have appealed to the heart of every auditor. A former attempt at the establishment of a Sundayschool has now every prospect of realization; and the chapel has been furnished with a small library during his ministry.

That these rewards may stimulate both us and others to future and increased exertions, is the sincere wish of

A MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATION.

Mr. Tyrwhitt und Dr. C. Lloyd.
SIR,

PERMIT a constant reader who thinks that by no means an unimportant purpose answered by the Monthly Repository is in recording some account of departed friends who have contributed, by their writings especially, to the diffu

sion of Christian literature, to suggest, what I believe will be found the case, that the readers of the Repository have never been favoured with an account of the late Mr. Tyrwhitt, of Cambridge, the author of one of the most decisive Tracts circulated by the Unitarians: -nor of the late Dr. Charles Lloyd, who, though educated among Dissenters, may probably be placed, for his accurate and sound learning, upon a par with some of the best scholars whom the richly-endowed colleges have produced. As I feel quite satisfied that such information would be as suitable to the pages of the Repository as it would be gratifying to many of its readers, I take leave, through you, Sir, to suggest the communication of such intelligence to those of your occasional contributors who have it abundantly in their power to furnish the same. A CATHOLIC.

MR. JOHN HUMPHRIES.

Feb. 24, at Chichester, Mr. JOHN HUMPHRIES, aged 63, who had for many years filled the office of goaler in that city. The duties of his official situation Mr. H. discharged with great credit to himself, uniting to that vigilance which the public interest required, unvarying kindness and urbanity towards the prisoners whom he had in custody. Mr. H. was a regular attendant at the Unitarian chapel, and the following letter, addressed some years since to a clergyman who was then the visiting clergyman of the prison, at once displays the manliness of his character, and proves that "he knew in whom he had believed," which words were selected as the basis of the discourse delivered the Sunday after his interment, in reference to his removal from this present scene.

"Rev. SIR,

"I was very much surprised, and a little hurt, ou returning home this evening to hear from my wife that you had made an unmanly attack on her respecting my creed, which, I think, might as well have been left alone, even had it beeu on myself; because, Sir, in this country, thanks be to God, every man has a right to worship his Maker according to the dictates of his own conscience, none daring to make him afraid.

"I am very sorry, Sir, to find myself so much mistaken in you; I always thought you a charitable, liberal-minded man; but, alas! I find you one of that illiberal seet which dooms every one to inevitable destruction who does not hold the same creed with themselves. But recollect, Sir, that God judgeth not as man judgeth, but we shall all stand at the last day at the judgment-seat of Christ, there to be judged by him whom the Father hath appointed.

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Now, Sir, my dissent from the Established Church was not the whim of a moment, but the result of a good deal of examination and reflection. Till I was thirty-six years of age, I never went to any place of worship in my life but the Church; nor did I ever read a controversial book of any kind for more than two years after that; nor did I know the tenets of any other sect. But how it happened I know not, but one sabbath, seriously reading the creed of St. Athanasius while it was singing, I was struck with its inconsistencies, which very much surprised me that I had never noticed them before. On my returu home I took my Testament, which I examined page by page, but to my great astonishment and uneasiness I could find no such doctrine as there laid down; nor could 1 bring myself to think I was bound to

believe what I could not find in my Testament, as I was always taught to believe that book to be the rule and guide of my faith. I could not find the word Trinity, nor could I find God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; but I could find a great number of passages where our blessed Saviour prayed to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God, and where the blessed Jesus and his apostles taught prayer to be made to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and St. Paul says, There is none other God but one; for though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods many and lords many, but to us there is but one God even the Father.' Howbeit there is not in every man this knowledge.

"Thus, Sir, I discarded that jumble of inconsistencies from my creed, for I could not reconcile it to my reason that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, should be three distinct persons, and but one God, because, Sir, I could not find it in my Bible or Testament and I was therefore sure it was the thoughts of man, who was as likely to err as myself. I therefore laid it aside, not fearing its damnatory threatenings, and determined no longer to believe that one was three, and three one; but, on the contrary, to worship the one living and true God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our blessed Mediator aud Redeemer.

"Thus, Sir, I became a fixed Unitarian, before I knew that there was such a sect: which was not till nearly two years afterwards, the whole time of which I absented myself from any place of worship, except when duty obliged me to attend the Mayor; till, forming a resolution to go to all the Dissenting chapels at that time in the city, to try to find one that met my ideas, I began at that which was then called the Presbyterian Meeting, where, Sir, in that house of the devil,* I found what I so ardently wished, the unmixed worship of the One living and true God.

"Thus, Sir, I have given you the cause of my dissent, and the reason of the hope that is in me,' nor can any argument you can use shake my faith, as it is in Jesus, to whom I give more merit as my Mediator and Saviour, than you give to him by worshiping him as God; for Christ died on the cross, to redeem sinners; but God cannot die.

* The Unitarian chapel was so called by the Rev. S. B., of Chichester.

"I cannot find in my Testament that he was a God-man; the passage* you pointed out to me, to set the question at rest, as you were pleased to say, is, I fear, a sandy foundation, for I believe it was at first but a marginal note, and is now, I think, agreed almost on all sides to be an interpolation, and is the only solitary passage to be found. It is now nearly eighteen years since I left the bosom of my nursing mother, and wandered from the beaten path; since which, like the Bereans of old, I have searched daily to see whether those things were so,' and I still continue one of that sect which is every where spoken against. I have read a great many arguments on both sides the question, and, aided by my Testament, I still retain the same opinion, which is, that the doctrine of the New Testament is Unitarianism, and is the doctrine that was taught by our blessed Saviour and his Apostles, who, whilst on earth, was the most meek and lowly, but is now exalted to the right hand of his Almighty Father; but I think it inconsistent to be Father and Son himself.

"This, Sir, I think, must be the opinion of every considerate, impartial man, and is, I know, the opinion of many who, through fear or interest, dare not

avow it.

"Now, Sir, I would thank you to let me enjoy my own creed, without molestation, as I wish to live in charity with all men. I hope this will not make you think worse of me than you were wont: I shall always be glad to see you as gaol chaplain, but would thank you not to be harsh to my prisoners, because you are not aware what trouble you give by making them uneasy; for I consider after prisoners are found guilty by the laws of their country, and sentenced to au imprisonment, they have no right to be pressed to a confession of their guilt, unless such as are under sentence of death.

his professional avocations to interfere with his religious duties. He joined the congregation of the Rev. W. Wood at Mill-Hill Chapel.

Mr. Logan was elected one of the Surgeons to the Leeds Iufirmary, where he became the colleague of that emineut and excellent man, the late William Hey, Esq., F. R. S., who may be called the founder of that institution; but it was owing to the united talent and exertion of these two men that it became so celebrated and so extensively useful.

Mr. Logan married Mary, the daughter of Hatton Wolrich, Esq., of Leeds, in 1791, who survives him; a connexion which continued in uninterrupted happi. ness, except from his ill-health, which she, by unwearied attention and sympathy, contributed to mitigate, and rendered a life of suffering even a life of enjoyment. He continued in the active pursuit of his profession till the year 1813, when, in consequence of increasing bad health, he was compelled to withdraw from it. He then removed to Seacroft, about four miles from Leeds, took out his diploma and practised occasionally as a consulting physician; but even that was prevented by his sufferings, which he endured about fifteen years, baffling the knowledge and experience of himself and the most able medical men both in London and the country; but in the agony he has undergone, he submitted with cheerfulness and without a murmur to the will of his Heavenly Father,

an example of Christian patience and resignation; and retained the enjoyment of the society of his friends during his occasional intervals of ease.

Dr. Logan was a man of strong natural feeling, thereby enabled to prepare his patients for what he knew they must undergo; but possessing complete and powerful self-command during the performance of painful and dangerous operations. He had a strong, enlarged, and well-cultivated mind. In his religious principles he was an Unitarian, imbibed during his early intercourse with Mr. Lindsey, and confirmed by his research and study; but he never allowed his religious or political opinions, though living during a period of great excitement, to interfere with friendly intercourse; he was strictly the humble but faithful follower of his Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Wherever distress was to be found which he had the power to relieve, there his duty and his inclination carried him; "he went about doing good;" and in looking back to the circumstances of his birth, and to the eminence and respect which he attained, a most useful lesson is inculcated, shewing that gloomy forebodings ought never to be harboured, but that, though we are for wise purposes sometimes humbled by affliction and deep distress, we ought to confide in a merciful Father, knowing that the righteous or his seed are never forsaken, though begging bread.

First Annual Report of the Cork Branch of the Irish Unitarian Christian Society, presented to the General Meeting on the 1st of March, 1831.

IN laying before you the First Annual Report of this Branch Society, your Committee desire to express their continued conviction of the great importance of the objects which it contemplates, and of its fitness for their promotion.

They feel assured, that where the great principles of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures as the sole rule of faith and practice, and the right and obligation of free inquiry and individual judgment, possess their proper force, no error of an important character can long continue

to exist; but, that every doctrine of religion, being submitted to the test of scriptural examination, must come out from the fire of trial purified from the dross which may have encumbered it, and shine forth in all the native beauty of gospel truth and they doubt not that those doctrines which appear to them contrary to truth, derogatory to the character and dignity of Jehovah, and calculated to enslave the human mind, and retard its advancement towards purity and happiness, have their existence only in the substitution of the dogmas of men for the teaching of God, through the absence of those convictions which this Society desires to deepen and extend. Let us therefore discharge

the duties which devolve upon us as members of this Society, in the close investigation of every subject which comes under its notice-that each having first cast out the beam out of his own eye, may see clearly to cast out the mote out of his brother's eye.

Of the utility of association in a common cause, none can doubt. Man is a social being, and feels his heart lightened of its apprehensions, and his haud strengthened to vigorous exertion, when he exchanges the animating look of sympathy and resolution with his fellow. But it is too frequently the case, that while the end for which association is employed is urged forward by the joint impulse of the crowd, the man is lost in the mass, the individual merges in the multitude, and ceasing to possess that self-determining and self-acting principle which it is one great end of religion to induce, he becomes the passive echo of others' minds, and the passive agent of others' wills: but while we derive the support and encouragement which the principle of association is calculated to afford, let us never cease to remember, that it is as individuals we possess the right of investigation, and that it is as individuals we are responsible for the duties which its possession involves.*

In February, 1830, circular letters were received by some of your present members, from a number of gentlemen in Dublin, whose purpose was the formation of an Irish Unitarian Christian Society, in order that, by the more general diffusion of Christian liberty, the domination of human authority in matters of faith might be brought to a conclusion, and the many errors in religious belief which have arisen from that fruitful source, be gradually dispelled. As a mode of rendering more extensive the benefits of this institution, it was recommeuded that Provincial Branch Societies should be formed, to communicate with the parent association, and be entitled to certain privileges on subscribing to its support. Acting on this suggestion, a meeting was held on the 25th of February, at which Mr. James Lane presided, when the formation of such a Branch Society was resolved upon, and on Monday evening, March the 1st, your Soci

These ideas upon Association have been suggested by an excellent essay on that subject, in the 34th number of the American Christian Examiner-from the pen of the Rev. William Ellery Channing, D. D.

ety's first meeting took place, on which occasion resolutions declaratory of the objects which it contemplates were unanimously adopted. Those objects

are:

"To endeavour to produce a more full and general conviction of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures, as the sole rule of Faith and Practice.

"To maintain the right and promote the exercise of Free Inquiry and Individual Judgment on religious subjects, as being alike the privilege and the duty of all.

"To confirm in its members, and universally to promote belief in the fundamental doctrine of the Bible, that there is but One God, the Father ;-a doctrine thus unequivocally expressed by our Saviour, in prayer to his Father and our Father, his God and our God,-"This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.'

"To extend the influence of the devotional and practical parts of Revelation, that men may be doers of the word and not hearers only,'' knowing, that as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.'"

One of the means by which the attainment of those objects was aimed at, was holding monthly meetings for scripture and other religious reading, conversation, and prayer; and your Committee consider the wishes expressed by the Members of the Society for greater frequency in its meetings, [in accordance with which it was resolved, on the 14th of June, that they should take place once a fortnight, and, on a subsequent occasion, once every week,] as affording some evidence, as well of the adaptation of your Society to the purposes of Scriptural investigation, as of the increasing desire of its members for mutual improvement; and your Committee trust, that the zeal which has thus been manifested in the acquisition and dissemination of pure Christianity, may continue steadily to advance, removing in its onward course every obstacle to just conceptions of the attributes of the Great Being whom we worship-of the powers and capacities with which he has endowed us—and of the responsibility which attaches to us, as their possessors.

Your Committee desire to notice one feature in the constitution and practice of your Society, which is, that as "the adventitious distinctions of rank and station form no bar to admission," so when you meet to receive from the revelation of that Being, who is no respecter