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and energy, are summoned away in the full career of their useful action, when the parent of a large family, their companion, instructor, guide, and friend, fulfilling with sedulous and untiring cheer fulness the varied duties of wife and mother, is removed from the presence of those who delighted in her society, it is fitting that such an event should be seriously considered, that the living should "lay it to heart." Blind unbelief complains of the unequal distribution of happiness and misery in this world; and feeble, unreflecting faith almost shudders at appointments in which, apparently, unmixed evil prevails; but the sincere, the rational, the confiding Christian feels a firm conviction that the entire ways of Divine Providence form a mighty and harmonious whole, and is enabled to bow with calm resignation under the action of the immutable decrees of him who "saw the end from the beginning."*

Many circumstances conspire to render the death of Mrs. John Herford unusually distressing and deeply impressive to an extensive circle of relatives and intimates. Highly gifted by nature, and with taleuts industriously cultivated and improved, she had for many years devoted herself to the work of education; and, incessantly and usefully occupied, she was happy in the success of her own efforts, and ever ready to contribute to the success and advancement of others. Especially, she held herself favoured in being permitted to assist and promote the welfare, in succession, of a number of her young friends, who now, profitably employing the information they received from their amiable instructor, recall, with respectful regret, the recollection, not of the teacher only, but of the kind, the active, and the unwearied friend. Thus usefully proceeded the days of the excellent person whose decease, in the prime of middle life, is here recorded. But her exertions were not confined to the routine of her engagements. Fully ap

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preciating the value of time, and the importance of the often disregarded series of small detached portions of this precious gift, she had the happy faculty of finding suitable and useful employment for every passing minute. thus gained leisure for the acquisition of knowledge where others saw only constant and wearying occupation in her professional pursuits; and thus was she enabled, not only to continue her course of self-education in the various branches of useful knowledge and elegant literature, but (indulging a predilection which, from her earliest childhood, she had evinced) to surprise her friends by the continual production of new efforts of taste and skill in more than one branch of the pictorial art, which shewed, that had she been devoted to that pursuit, as the occupation of her life, she would have been recognized as one of the painters "of this age and nation." She also published a comprehensive Chart of History and Biography, in which, by an ingenious contrivance, she succeeded in exhibiting, not only the rise, progress, and extent, of each empire, but its comparative condition of prosperity or decay. In the midst of this constant activity, Mrs. H. never permitted herself to degenerate into the mere worldly character. Her religious feelings were pure and ardent; her admonitions on this subject earnest and affectionate; her faith enlightened and sincere, and her benevolence disinterested and diffusive. Enjoying to the last the complete use of her faculties, she was enabled to administer consolation to her surrounding friends, and to suggest the best possible arrangements for continuing for the benefit of her family, the establishment she had succeeded in forming.

Such an example is surely worthy of being recorded. It shews that the best feelings of the friend and the Christian may co-exist with the most assiduous exercise of the mental faculties, and the most active occupation of the time. It shews to the young that the task and duty of acquiring knowledge need not be renounced because their days are constantly and laboriously employed. It presents, in fact, another instance in addition to many more which might be quoted, to prove that the more regular and important are the occupations, the more opportunities may be found for benevolent and intellectual pursuits. W. H. S.

Birmingham, Nov. 6, 1831.

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INTELLIGENCE.

Tenterden District Meeting.

THE Eighth Anniversary of this Branch of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian 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 Rolven den, 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: 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 Unitariauism 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.

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since the congregation assembling in this chapel, were unjustly expelled from Street. During this period, they regutheir former place of worship in John's larly 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 chacongregations which attended on the ritable feelings. Among the numerous 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 reapressed with a more favourable opinion son to hope, that many went away imof Unitarian Christianity, and feeling that though its professois may differ from them in many of their distinguishunworthy of the name of Christians and ing doctrines, they are yet not wholly

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 disseut from the Established lowed, with great ability, in the evening Church of this country. He was folDudley, who, with great force of argusermon, by the Rev. Samuel Bache, of the unity which the Scriptures represent ment and warmth of piety, illustrated 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 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. Au interval of nearly fifteen years has now elapsed,

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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 miuis

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Acle Branch, Bath Auxiliary, Beccles Branch, 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 Branch, Merionethshire Auxiliary, Newark Auxiliary, Newcastle-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 Berkhamstead Branch, Wandsworth Ladies' Associa tion, Weald-of-Kent Auxiliary, Weymouth Branch, Whitby Auxiliary, Woodbridge Branch, York Auxiliary. List of Two additional Societies favourable to Alteration.

Brewham and Pitscombe Association, Clerkenwell (North) Association. The above Lists are made up to the 17th of October.

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 ready 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.

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American Biography, 346—Theolo-
gical School, 143-Tracts, 344-—
Unitarian ordinations,
Anderson's Historical Sketches,
Anniversary at Salford, 143-at Bol-
ton, 288-of Southern Unitarian
Fund, 356-of Chapel at Bolton,
ib.-of Irish Unitarian Society, ib.
of British and Foreign Unitarian
Association, 412-of Kent and
Sussex Unitarian Association, 571
-of Sunday-school at Hull,
Association, Boltou District, 501,
792-Devon and Cornwall, 791—
Hull, East York, &c., 429-for
the Protection of the Rights of
Conscience in Ireland, 576-Uni-
tarian,

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Gloucester,

652

249

Buckminster's Second Volume of

Sermons,

277

Burder's Oriental Customs,

536

Burroughs on the Principle of the
Chorus to the Psalms,

ib.

C.

Canada, Dissenters' marriages in,
Castle's Manual of Surgery,

286

283

Catholics, French,

286

Carpenter, Dr., his reply to the Ec-

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