ination. They form one vast brotherhood, and their trials, their labours, and their hopes are common. Neither difference of language, nor separating oceans, nor diversity of government and of ecclesiastical organizations, nor variety of modes of worship, can divide them. They have their various difficulties to encounter, and their respective works to perform. And how they should delight to encourage each other in every good enterprise, rejoice in each other's success, stimulate and reprove each other (when reproof is necessary) with kindness, and not with bitterness; and thus strive to hasten the universal triumph of the kingdom of their common Lord! And how appropriate to them is the prayer of

England's sweetest religious bard,* with
which we bring this book to a close :
"Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns,
Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth,
Thou who alone art worthy! It was thine
By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth;
And thou hast made it thine by purchase since,
And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Thy saints proclaim Thee king; and in their hearts
Thy title is engraven with a pen

Dipped in the fountain of eternal love.
Thy saints proclaim Thee king; and thy delay
Gives courage to their foes, who, could they see
The dawn of thy last advent, long desired,
Would creep into the bowels of the hills,
And flee for safety to the falling rocks.
The very spirit of the world is tired
Of its own taunting question, asked so long,
'Where is the promise of your Lord's approacn?"

* Cowper-The Task, book vi.

Aborigines (see North America).
Academies and Grammar-schools, 148.
Allenite Methodists, noticed, 262.
America (see North America).

Americans, best method for obtaining correct knowl-
edge of, 29.

American Revolution, effects of the, on religion, 102.
morals, character of two foreign censors

of, 335, note.
American, meaning of, when annexed to religious
societies, 140, note."
American Sunday-school Union and Auxiliaries, 152.
Education Society, origin of the, 157.
Bible Society, notice of the, 166.

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Tract Society, operations of the, 167.

Prison Discipline Society, 174.

the, 140.

Camp-meetings, origin and nature of, 216.
Carolina, North and South, benefits of dissolution of
Church and State in, 115.

Charters of American Colonies, curious character
of, 27, 28.

Cheever, Rev. G. B., extract from lecture of, 319.
Cherokees, removal of the, 298.

Christians, origin and belief of the, 280, 281.
Christianity, happy influence of, on public order,
332, 333.

Christianity, only remedy for slavery in the United
States, 336, 337.

265, 269.

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union of, with State gradually dissolved, 104.
union of, with State, when and how dissolv-
ed, and effects, 112, 323, note.

Church edifices, how built in cities and large towns,

132.

Cobb, Mr. Nathl. R., charitable resolutions of, 328.
Colleges and universities, 150.
effect of state control upon,

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151.

Colonial era, state of religion in the, 99.

Colonization Society, history of the, 314.
advantages of African, 315.
plan of Gustavus Adolphus, 68.
Coloured people, our reported quarrels with the, 332.
disturbances chiefly between them
and foreigners, 332, note.

Colony, influence of, at Liberia, 315.

at Plymouth, account of the, 47-51.
ecclesiastical regulations of
the, 84.

Congregations, new, how formed, 133.

Congregationalists, parent stock of those in Eng-
land, 224.

Congregationalists, not Dissenters, 225.

present religious system of, 225.

mode of church discipline among, 226.
mode of, for supporting public worship, 227.
nature of the Associations" of, 228.

pastoral office among early, lost by dismis-
sion, 228.
Congregationalists, ordination among, how perform-
ed, 228.
Congregationalists not Independents in practice, 229,
· Consociations" among, nature of, 229.
Congregationalism, opinions of, as to preventing
heresy, 279.

Convent at Charlestown, burning of the, 270, note.
Conversion of a young man by a particular mode of
preaching, 205.

Covenant, Half-way, introduction of the, 273.
Covenanters (see Reformed Presbyterians).

Deaf and Dumb, history of asylums for the, 179.
Deists, notice of, 286.

Delaware, early settlement of, 19, 68.

early relations between Church and State

in, 90.
Delaware, character of the Swedish settlements on
the, 68, 69.

De Tocqueville, works of, on America noticed, 31, 32.
erroneous opinions of, noticed, 194,

note.

District of Columbia, origin of the, 35.

Education, attention of Puritans to, 147.

societies of different sects, 157, 159.
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, character of preaching of,
198, 274.

Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, labours of, among the In-
dians, 295.

Eliot, Rev. John, missionary labours of, 294.
English language first introduced in Dutch church-
es of New-York, 65.

Episcopal (see Protestant).

"Evangelical Association," account of the, 261.
Evangelical churches, three divisions of, 220.

statistics of missionary efforts of, 317.
General statistics of, 264, 265, 269.

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the, 312.

Foreign Missionary Society of
"Lynch-law" very rarely executed, 332.

Maryland, early settlement of, 18.

effects of early union of Church and State
in, 90, 96.

Maryland, early religious toleration in, 62.

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115.

effects of disunion of Church and State in,

Maryland, Declaration of Rights in, 111.
Marryat, Captain, opinions of, noticed, 271, note.
Mason, Dr. J. M., originator of Theological Semi-
naries, 159.

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Massachusetts, early settlement of, 17, 52 54, 55.
the last to dissolve union of Church
and State, 116.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, trials and prosperity of,

55.

Massachusetts, dissolution of union of Church and
State in, 112.

Massacre at St. Charles city, Virginia, notice of,
61.

Maternal Societies. 156.

Mather, Cotton, notice of, 101.

Mayhew, Rev. Thomas, missionary labours of, 294.
Mennonists, account of the, 261.

Methodist ministers, salaries of, 323, note.

Methodist Episcopal Church, history and organiza
tion of, 245, 246.

religious belief and discipline of, 246.
statistics of the, 249.

Home Missions of, 145.

Foreign Missions of the, 310.

Methodists,

Primitive, account of the, 262
Allenite, notice of the, 262.
Protestant, origin of the, 262.
Calvinistic, notice of the, 263.
Stilwell, notice of the, 262.

Ministers, salaries of, how raised, 136.
extent of support of, 137.

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how trained and settled, 138.

proportion of evangelical Protestant, to
the population, 322.

Ministers, evangelical, not sufficient for present.
need, 323.

Ministers, total amount raised to support, 323.
Montgomery, rapid growth of the town of, 135.
"Moore's Charity School," notice of, 295.
Moravians, notice of the, 81.

Religion, institutions of, not chargeable with politi-
cal disturbances, 331.

Repudiation, wrong impressions respecting, abroad,

330.

Repudiation, doctrine of, how viewed in this coun-
try, 330.

Revivals of religion, nature of, 196.

202.

207.

character of early, 197.

at Northampton, 198, 274.
extensive in 1740-41, 199, 274.

peculiar character of, in Kentucky, 201.
remarkable, in Yale College, 201.
advantages of and best mode of conducting,
consistency of, with our mental constitution,

instances of opposition to, disarmed, 208.
importance of orderly meetings in, 218.
happy instance of female influence in, 212.
alleged abuses in, 214.

pernicious effects of late meetings in, 218.
who oppose, 214.

causes of prejudices against, 215.

Unitarian objections to, in New-England, 275.

Revival preachers, objections to, 216.

Rhode Island, early settlement of, 17, 56.

Rochester, rapid growth of, 135.

Roman Catholic Church, early establishment of, 270.
conversions from, how checked, 272.
statistics of the, 271.

probable influence of, 271.

Sabbath associations, 176.

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comparatively good observance of, in the
United States, 334.

Sabbath, interest of railroad and steamboat compa-
nies to observe, 334, note.

St. Charles city, Virginia, massacre at, 61.
Scotch colonists, character of the, 24.

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persecution of the, 73.

Scotland, early cause of immigration from, 72, 73.
religious influence of immigrants from, 75.
Scottish Secession churches, account of the, 255.
Foreign Missions of, 312.

Seamen, efforts to promote the interests of, 172.
Sects, advantages of numerous evangelical, 266.
nature and character of theological discus-
sions among, 290.

Sects, grounds of alleged want of harmony among,
267, 269.

Sects, evangelical, often commingle, 268.

differences between evangelical and unevan-
gelical, 288.

Sects, extent of doctrinal agreement among, 289.
Shakers, account of the, 283.

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66 recent extraordinary book of the, 284, note.
Slavery, true position of the country respecting, 335.
how entailed on this country, 335.
severe clause against, in original Declara-
tion of Independence, 336, note.
Slavery, when abolished by the free states, 336.
increase of, since the Revolution, 336.
how to be ultimately abolished, 336.
an obstacle to promotion of religion, 40.
Christianity the only remedy for, 336, 337.
extent of, in the United States, 42.
difficulties attending the abolition of, 336.
severity of foreign Christians respecting, 337.
Slavery, proper Christian spirit in relation to, 337,338.
Smith, Mr. Normand, extract from memoir of, 327.
South Boston, Transcendental sermon at, 279.
South Carolina, early settlement of, 19, 63.

"

"" early relations between Church and
State in, 90.
Southern States, religious character of the early
colonists of, 60.

State legislation here, friendly to Christianity, 126.
Stoddard, Rev. Mr., peculiar sentiments of, 273.
Story, Chief-justice, opinion of, on State patronage
of religion, 116.

Sunday-schools, mode of conducting, 154.
Swedenborgians, notice of the, 282.
Swedish settlements on the Delaware, 68.

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แ character of the colonists of, 69.
Swiss colonists, character of the, 25.

Temperance societies, 172.

Tennent, Rev. Messrs., opinion of Whitefield re-
specting, 203.

Thanksgiving-day, publicly appointed, 320.
governor's proclamation for, 320, note.
Theological Seminaries, 159–165.
Tract societies, 168.

Transcendentalism, notice of, 278, 279.
Transcendentalists, charged with Pantheism, 279.
Transcendental sermon at South Boston, 279.
Trinity Church, New-York, funds of, 323, note.
Tunkers, notice of the, 282.