5

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Etheridge & Bliss,

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E. Cotton,

5

A friend,

3

Nicholas Brown,

20

Jabez Bowen,

10

Thomas P. Ives,

10

100

Jedidiah Morse, D. D. (in

John Rollins,

Joseph O'Brien, Robert Foster, Nathaniel Smith, A Friend,

Jeremiah Nelson,

Joseph Noyes,

Since we received the above donations, the funds of the Society, by entrance money, which is one dollar for each member, or ten dollars for life, and by annual payments, which are one dollar per annum, for each member, and by small donations from Churches and individuals, amount to $2,282 80.

Much more aid has been solicited by young men of promising talents, patroniz ed by the Society, than our scanty funds would enable us to afford. We have, however, assisted in educating twenty three young gentlemen, of whom we entertain raised expectations of eminent service to the churches, Nine are already settled in the work of the Gospel ministry, and are called faithful Five are now promising candidates for the ministry, and ethers are pursuing their collegiate or theoological education.

Since ministers of the Gospel are gen erally en barrased, and their usefulness impeded, by the want of pecuniary sup port, especially in new settlements how desirable it is, that indigent young men, rich in talents, who labor to devote them selves to the arduous work of the Gospel ministry, should receive such aid in ob taining their education as will leave them free from a load of debt, whea settled in their work.

By order of the Society, NATHANIEL HALL, Sec. P.S. The Evangelical Society contemplates a union with Middlebury College

Charitable Society, which was lately formed for the promotion of the same benevo lent design.

Ganville, N. York, Murch 14, 1814.

NEW ENGLAND TRACT SOCIETY.

THE deposite of the New England Tract Society has been opened in the chamber over Mr. S. T. Armstrong's Bookstore, No. 50, Cornhill. This deposite contains Tracts on moral and religious subjects of 50 different kinds, amounting in the whole to 300,000 Those of 24 pages 12 Tao. will be sold to members and Auxiliary Tract Societies at $2 33 1-3 per hundred; to others, not members, at 83 33 1-3 per hundred. Smaller Tracts Will be sold in the same proportion.

The following are the titles of the Tracts now published, viz, Constitution, Address, &c. The work of the Holy Spirit On Intemperance Reflections on Hebrews xii, 14. Warning Voice

A Dialogue between a Traveller and Yourself

DIED, in England, the Rev. Mr. Hux. TINGTON of the denomination of Methodists. So anxious were many of his admirers to possess some memorial of the deceased, that his effects, books, &c. were sold at the most extravagant prices. A cart not worth six pounds sold for 200 pounds; an old arm chair, not worth five dollars, for sixty guineas; and a hymn book, worth half a crown, for twenty-six guineas.

At Saybrook, (Con.) the Rev. SAMUEL MILLS, aged 60.

At South Hero, (Ver) on the 29th of Jan, last, Col. EPURAIM SAWYER, aged

He

94, formerly of Lancaster, Mass. was an officer in the provincial armies, in the reigns of George II, and George III, and in the American army during the revolution.

At Rutland, (Ver.) Mr. JOSEPH GREEN, aged 27, murdered.

At Medfield, on the 28th of Feb. last, the Rev. THOMAS PRENTISS, D. D. minister of the Congregational church and society in that town, aged 66.

At Wiscasset, on the 1st of March last, the Hon. SILAS LEE, Attorney of the U S. for the District of Maine. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1784, a

Representative in Congress in 1801, and since that time till his decease he has held the office above-mentioned. For several of the last years of his Ife, he held the ofice of Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln. His age was 53.

At Essex, (Vt.) Mrs. SARAH MORGAN, wife of the Rev. ASAPH MORGAN, aged

32.

At Concord, (Mass) on the 24th of Feb. last, Mrs. LYDIA BALL, aged 99.

At Boston, MOSES BASCOM, Esq. Representative of the town of Gill in the General court, aged 53.

At Brookfield, the Hon. PLINY MERRICK, Esq.

At Stopington, (Con.) Mrs. CONTENT LANGWORTHY, aged 105.

At Boardman, (Ohio) Maj. RICHARD ELLIOT, formerly of Kent, (Con.) The ei cumstances of his death are thus stated in the newspapers.

On returning at evening from the town' of Poland, he observed two lights coming towards him in the shape of a half moon; and when the lights met him, they seemed to enclose him in a circle round his breast, when he heard a voice distinctly say, Are you prepared to die? to which he auswered, If it is God's will, I think I um. The lights then passe him a short distance, but turning back foilowed him until he arrived against the burying ground, where they made a stand, and he could observe them on looking back for half a mile. On reaching home, he stated the above circumstances to his family, and afterwards to several of his particular friends, adding his full belief that he was soon to die, and making his prepentions accordingly with manifest regation to the will of Providence. On the third day after seeing the lights, he was seized with the prevailing epidemic, and died the next day.

At Easton, Md.) JAMES EARLE, Esq. Cashier of the Farmers' Branch Bank.

At Waterford, (N. Y.) a Mrs. ELDRED, killed her husband while he was (as it is supposed) in a fit of insanity.

At New York, Mrs. BRIDGET RAGLAND, & native of Ireland; she had been thrown into the fire by her husband, and was burnt go as to occasion her death. Verdict, murder. •

At Millbury, (Mass.) on the 26th of Feb. last, Col. JONATHAN HOLMAN, aged 8, an active officer in the revolutionary

War.

A Boston, on the 13th of March last, Mr. Joan P. CLARK, late cashier of the State Bask, aged 34.

Near Bladensburg, (Md.) Lieut. HALL, of the U.S. army, murdered in a duel by a brother officer.

At Parma, (Italy,) JEAN BAPTISTE Bonoxi, the most celebrated painter in Italy, aged 73.

In France, Gen. Count WALTHIER, colonel of the Imperial horse guards, aged 52.

As Lancaster, (Ohio,) Mr, Joux DuxLAP, aged 100.

At Leicester, (Mass.) JARED BRADLEY, Esq. a member of the H. K. of Mass. from Lee.

At Guilford, (Con.) Gen. AUGUSTUS COLLINS, for many years a member of the H. R. of that state.

In the district of Columbia, Ensign S. H. BRYAN, murdered in a duel by a Lieutenant of U. S. army. Bryan's pis tols missed fire twice.

At Enfield, (Con.) Rev. GEORGE AT

WELL.

At Philadelphia, on the 2d inst. the Hon. NICHOLAS GILMAN, Esq. a Senator of U. S. from New Hampshire.

At Ipswich, (Mass.) Mrs. SARAH WHEELER, aged 100.

In Spain, the Marquis of SOMERNELOS, late Governor of Cuba.

At St. Johns, (N. B.) in the 76th year of his age, the Hon. WILLIAM HAZES, member of the Executive Council from the formation of that province in 1783.

Near Paris, killed in the battle of March 30th, RAPATEL, the aid of the late Gen. Moreau.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE paper of H. S. on The Prophety of the Vials and the Remarks on Rev. xiii, we decline to insert; principally be cause brief interpretations of prophecy, when they relate to difficult passages, often perplex the minds of readers, and sometimes diminish their reverence for the prophetical writings. This reason does not apply, in our apprehension, to the Morsel from the Prophecies, which we have admitted.

We are again under the necessity of reminding our correspondents, that no obituary notices can be inserted, unless the persons who communicate them are known to us, or we have authentic information of their accuracy from some other quarter.

We received, sometime since, a paper containing Objections to sending Female Missionaries, and another written by a person who had seen the former in manuscript containing Inswers to these Objections. We have not decided, whether the discussion of this subject will be useful.

Our poetical correspondents are, quested to exercise patience.

The Institution of the Sabbath.

THAT the Sabbath was originally appointed by divine authority, is not, I believe, questioned by any, who profess to regard the Scriptures as a revelation from heaven. It cannot, therefore, be necessary to spend a moment in proving so clear a point. Happy would it be, if the same just coincidence of opinion existed respecting every material question, connected with this important subject. That this however is very far from being the case, will be sufficiently obvious, in the progress of these numbers.

It being granted by all parties, that the Sabbath was originally a divine institution, the first question that presents itself, in the plan which I propose to pursue, is;-At what time, and on what occasion, was the Sabbath instituted?

This question, as it appears to me, is unequivocally answered, in the second chapter of Genesis, at the beginning. Thus the heav ens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made, and he VOL. X.

rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, which God created and made. Here is nothing ambiguous, either in the words themselves, or in their connexion with the preceding narrative. The plain and obvious account is, that as soon as God had finished the great work of creation, he not only rested from it himself, but appointed the very next, or sev enth, day to be observed by our first parents, as a day of holy rest, in commemoration of the grand event. Whatever reasons any persons may think they see for ascribing a much later date to this sacred institution, they will not surely say, that any of these reasons were first suggested to their minds by the perusal of the passage before us. Even they must concede as much as this, that the passage seems, at first view, to favor the construction which I have given it. But it has been contended, that this cannot be the true construction, because neither the observance, nor the existence, of a Sabbath, is once mentioned by the sacred historian, from the second chapter of Genesis, to the sixteenth of Exodus, including a period of about

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