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AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.
PHILADELPHIA:

No. 146 CHESNUT STREET.

PUBLIC LIBRARY
2728394

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of L. S. October, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of ttttttt the United States of America, A. D. 1828, Paul Beck, jun. Treasurer, in trust for the American Sunday-School Union, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor in the words following, to

wit:

History of the Sandwich Islands: with an account of the Ame rican Mission established there in 1820. Revised by the Commit. tee of Publication.

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled," an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned"and also to the act, entitled, an act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprie tors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints"

D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

BRIEF MEMOIR

OF THE

REV. MR. EVELETH.

THE remark that the present age is extraordinary, is no less true than common. A new impulse has been given to the human mind. New fields of literature have been explored. The entire energies of our natures seem waking up to some mighty effort; and men are taught to look forward to the result, with unusual expectation. Moral improvement, likewise, if it has not kept pace with intellectual culture, has, at least, made rapid advances. Vastly more is expected of the church, than was demanded half a century ago. Not only those who minister at the altar of religion, but all who enjoy its blessings, and partake of its hopes, are required to be animated by a purer zeal, by a more steadfast, and more earnest devotion to the cause of God.

Corresponding to these high demands, are the exertions in behalf of Zion, which

have blessed the eyes of Christians within these latter years. Wherever we look, we behold something to gladden our sight. At one moment we behold the Bible Society spreading its wings of salvation over both hemispheres. At another time, we behold the words of life going forth in the form of Tracts, to visit every abode of man. And then again, lest men should not be willing to listen to the book of God, or to the explanations of it, from the pen of the wise and the good, without the more extended efforts of a living ministry, the Education Society arose, with the noble purpose of bring ing forward a greater number of Christ's ambassadors. And that nothing might impede the zeal of those who were burning with the apostolic desire, to traverse with the news of redemption, every region of the globe, domestic and foreign missionary societies have come in with timely and efficient aid.

With these benevolent institutions, deserve to be ranked the efforts that are now made in behalf of Sabbath-school instruction: a system, which, by employing the hours of the Sabbath in God's own work, is rescuing thousands from the darkness of ignorance, and pouring gospel light into the minds of hundreds of thousands who are now under the happy influence of Sabbath-schools. The great object of imparting religious instruc tion to the whole of the rising generation

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