at this truly Christian revival,-and expectation was
brightened for the future. May the good wishes that day
expressed for mutual and increasing respect, attachment,
and harmony, the silent and public prayers uplifted to the
Father of mercies through Christ Jesus, be fully realized.
Monday afternoon, November 11., a Social Meeting of
the members and friends of the Congregation and Associ-
ation was held in the Chapel. Two hundred and thirty
persons, male and female, sat down to tea.
The arrange
ments were excellent. On the motion of Mr Harris, Mr
Boucher was appointed chairman. He called on the Rev.
T. Bradshaw of Dollar, who had come from Edinburgh to
attend the meeting, having preached the preceding day
in St Mark's Chapel, to offer up a prayer. After tea a
hymn of thanksgiving was sung. Mr Boucher then ad-
dressed the assembly on his entrance on the duties of the
ministry, detailed the principles he had adopted as a dis-
ciple of Christ, from the study of the Bible; principles
which he should labour to uphold and disseminate; de-
picted the hopes by which he was animated in the prose
cution of his duties, and the co-operation and assistance
on which he relied in their fulfilment. The difficulties and
encouragements which lay before him were also described,
with faith and trust triumphant over obstacles; and the
aid of the people and the Divine blessing were invoked
for the accomplishment of the objects of the connectiou
which had been formed. Mr Harris after a few observa-
tions in eulogy of the address which had been delivered,-
an address which had met as it deserved, with the warm
response of the meeting, gave out the following hymn.
Spirit of Truth! descend and rest

In love within thy servant's heart;
So may his life, divinely blest,
Thy sacred influence impart.

O may his tongue, by thee inspired,

"The Way, the Truth, the Life," proclaim;

Till with the Saviour's spirit fired,

Each heart shall humbly own his name.

Guide, guard, direct, encircle all-
Pastor and People, Teacher, Taught;
So may our souls from error's thrall
Redeemed, be with thy Spirit fraught.
Thus may we ever upward tend,
From sin by Truth and Love made free
And all our earthly service end,
Fountain of Truth, Great God, in thee!

Mr Harris, as Secretary of the Association, read the following Report:-" With mingled feelings of pleasure and regret, the Committee of the Scottish Christian Unitarian Association present their Report; with pleasure in the opportunity which this Anniversary affords, of again addressing the members and friends of an Institution, which has in past time been instrumental of extensive good; whose objects are in themselves most important, and worthy of increased and persevering support ;-with regret, that those objects, through a variety of concurrent circumstances, have not obtained the attention which they merit, from those whose co-operation is essential to their furtherance; and that consequently there is little of interest to communicate to the meeting.

"The place in which the Association this year assembles, and the accompanying services at the present anniversary, call for an expression on the part of the Committee of sympathy with, and gratulation to their Christian friends and brethren, to whose relative position those services more immediately relate. To that expression the Committee gladly give utterance. The union of a Congregation with their Minister, and the recognition of that union by appropriate religious exercises, are well calculated to excite deep and serious thoughtfulness and feeling, on the solemn and mutual resposibilities involved in that interesting relation. May the one now formed be productive of lasting improvement, increasing harmony, anticipated usefulness, the dissemination of the faith, hope, and charity of the Gospel, the confirmation of minds and hearts in the love and obedience of the truth as it is in Jesus.

"The Committee have continued in office longer than they were warranted by their election in 1842, in consequence of no General Meeting of the Society having been held last year. They feel bound to state, that this omission was the result of circumstances over which they had no controul. Failing in their application to several friends to aid the Association by their presence and sevices; and the Secretary having accepted an invitation, in anticipated conjunction with Dr Montgomery, to preach at Glasgow in October, it was expected that the Annual Meeting would be convened at the same period and place. Other arrangements were subsequently made, but of which the Committee were uninformed, till too late, to admit of the necessary applications and preparation, and the General Meeting was thus unavoidably postponed. It is to be hoped there may, on no account, be any recurrence of such

postponement, affecting, as it necessarily must, and as this mos tinjuriously has done, the prosperity and usefulness of the Institution.

"To all who participated in the pleasure and instruction of the last meeting of the Association, the unlooked for death of an honoured individual who contributed so largely on that occasion to the enjoyment and improvement of the auditors, must have proved a source of heartfelt sorrow. The devotedness of the Rev. Henry Acton to the great principles of Christian truth and righteousness he so powerfully advocated and enforced, not alone at that anniversary, but throughout his ministry, rendered his removal a serious loss to the Christian denomination to which he belonged, whilst the suddenness of that removal in the prime and maturity of ministerial usefulness, reads an impressive lesson on the instability and insecurity of human existence, presents a solemn admonition to all to put forth their utmost efforts in behalf of the right, the true, and the good, while it is yet day, and life, and strength, the means and opportunities of benefiting their fellow-creatures, and honouring their Maker, are mercifully preserved.

"The decease of another honoured and gifted champion of human nature and its rights, duties, and destiny, of the divinity of Christianity, and of the boundless love and the sole adoration of the Supreme and Infinite Father, did not occur so unexpectedly. Previous and long continued illness had in some measure prepared the public mind for the event, though its occurrence nevertheless came as a shock on the sensibilities of thousands, whose understandings had expanded through the influence of his persuasive writings, whose affections he had purified through his delineations of the moral loveliness of the Saviour of the world, and the boundless grace of the Parent-Power by whom he was sent and sanctified for the redemption of mankind. The Committee would have done violence to their feelings, to their sense of right, had they not assembled, and passed the following resolution :

"That the Committee of the Scottish Christian Unitarian Association embrace this opportunity of expressing their heartfelt admiration of the talents, character, and labours of the Rev. Dr Channing; their gratitude to the Father of mercies for having raised up so faithful a witness to the great principles on which are based the improvement, freedom, virtue, and happiness of mankind; their deep regret at the intelligence of his lamented death; their high appreciation of the steadfastness of purpose, the singleness of aim, the pure, moral, and Christian devotedness which characterized

his efforts; whilst gladly tracing in his labours as a minister of the Gospel, his fervent and powerful advocacy of the purity and divinity of its teachings, his Christian and philanthropic zeal to instruct the ignorant, lift up the fallen, and break every yoke-the holy and beneficent efficacy of the hallowed and benignant principles of the Paternity of God, and the brotherhood and immortality of man, which prompted his labours of love-they would regard his departure from the world as a powerful call on all who hold these principles as identified with the teachings of Jesus, to renewed and more earnest and persevering efforts for their dissemination and enthronement in every human heart, in order that peace, and freedom, truth and charity, piety and goodness, may adorn, dignify, and bless every child of the Universal Father.'

"The books and tracts on hand, August 8. 1842, were 2383. There have been added to the stock 100 copies Proceedings of Association 1842, and 100 copies Catalogue for 1843; 6 copies of Wilson's admirable, laborious, and useful compilation of Concessions of Trinitarians;' 66 copies various works for subscribers; and 1000 copies Dr Channing's Moral Argument against Calvinism, and 1000 copies of Dr Channing's Reply to Popular Objections against the Principles of Christian Unitarianism-total 4655. The Committee embrace this opportunity of reminding the members of the Association, and the Unitarian community generally, that possessing stereotype plates of those admirable productions of Dr Channing, together with his sermon delivered at Baltimore on the doctrines of the Unitarian faith, they can supply individuals and societies with copies of the Moral Argument' for 5s. a hundred; 'Reply to Popular Objections' at the same rate, and the sermon on the ordination of the Rev. Jared Sparks at 15s. a hundred.

"The distribution of books and tracts has been as follows: 100 copies of the Catalogue among subscribers and friends; St Mark's Chapel, Edinburgh, Tract Lending Library 180; and at the door 150; Falkirk, for chapel library, 25, and at the close of lecture in the Assembly Rooms 200; Glasgow congregation 460; Orkney 62; Queensferry 24; Borrowstonness 36; Aberdeen 250; claimed by subscribers in 1843, 268; in the present year 78; by Secretary to various individuals 192 ; and sold 750; total 2775, which deducted from 4655, leaves in hand 1880.

"The difficulties and discouragements referred to in the Report of the preceding Committee, affecting the district of which Tillicoultry was the leading station, continuing

to increase, and to be aided by other sources of impedíment, the conviction was reluctantly admitted, that the attempt to establish an avowed Unitarian congregation in that locality must for the time be relinquished. It was with pain that this conclusion was adopted, and in no disparagement of the labours of the Rev. T. Bradshaw, to whose earnestness of purpose willing testimony was borne. The Committee contributed to the necessary arrangements, indulging the hope which subsequent events have changed to certainty, that the seed of Christian truth which had been sown, had not all fallen on stony places, or by the wayside, but finding congenial soil wherein to germinate, would, after many days spring up, and ripen to abundant

harvest.

"Several attempts have been made to procure rooms for occasional preaching in the vicinity of Edinburgh, but hitherto fruitlessly; and the only missionary labour in which the Secretary has engaged has been in Falkirk.

"In reply to the circular announcing the present meeting, and requesting suggestions as to the dissemination of the Unitarian faith, the following communications have been received :

[FYFE. Satisfaction on the settlement of a minister at Glasgow; desirableness of occasional lectures in towns and villages; prospect of their being listened to with increased attention. DUNFERMLINE.-Happiness that friends in Glasgow are getting another pastor to labour among them. A few persons assemble every Sunday in a private house for reading and conversation. People not so averse to the perusal of Unitarian works, or conversing on its principles as they once were; lectures would be well attended, and do good. SALTCOATS.-' From William Burns to Christian Unitarian Meeting at Glasgow. My Christian Friends,-Permit me to congratulate you by letter, since the state of my health will not permit me to be personally present, on one of the occasions of your meeting at this time, namely, the settlement of a minister among you, who, presume, from the unanimity of your call, will truly and fully be a representative of the views which you hold of Christianity. I was afraid that recent occurrences might have divided you, and seriously injured your interests as a Christian society; but it will probably, under Divine Providence, have a contrary effect.

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"It will tend to convince your Christian brethren of other denominations, that in the practical views of Christianity, there is less difference of opinions, and of character, among its disciples, than would appear upon viewing it in