-Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and HIM ONLY. He and his apostles practically exemplified this precept; which, as a fundamental article of faith, they publicly taught from city to city. In almost every page of the christian Scriptures, we find it distinctively inscribed. Paul, in an epistle to Timothy, whom he had ordained a gospel minister, thus epitomises its doctrines. There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Under this summary, he professed to include the whole counsel of God, and therefore, urged the giving thanks always for all things to God, even the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. May it not be pertinently asked, if such was pure and undefiled religion then, why is it not so now? Has it undergone a subsequent modiñcation? By what paradox do they, who are wise above that which is written, pretend, that in offering the sacrifice of praise to God, in the name of Jesus, our advocate with him, we at the same time worship Jesus as the God, with whom, by his intermediate agency, he ever liveth to make intercession? If phraseology so express can by any inference convey a meaning it literally disclaims, what legimate conclusion could be ever deduced from human language?

They, who, by conforming to the creeds and ceremonials of some predominant sect, claim for themselves the name of Orthodox Believers, are but too prone to decry as heretics and schismatics, all who do not accord with them in their favourite offices. But by whatever style, or title, such professors may designate other christians, we avow ourselves unitarians; and as the only proper object of religious homage, laud, and invoke that eternal, immutable, and stupendous Majesty, whom no eye hath seen, nor can see. We believe the

predicted hour has arrived, and now is, when true worshippers shall worship THE FATHER in spirit, and in truth. Under these solemn convictions, several of the inhabitants of the city of Charleston, friendly to what they conceive to be the cause of rational and liberal christianity, have formed themselves into a society for the distribution of books, and adopted the following

Articles of Association.

ARTICLE I. This Association shall be denominated the Charleston Unitarian Society for the distribution of Books.

ART. II. The books distributed by this Society, shall be such only as are adapted to subserve the cause of rational and liberal christianity; to promote a correct faith, and a holy practice.

ART. III. Any person, on paying the sum of two dollars, may become a member of the Society, and be entitled to vote for officers. All subscriptions shall in future become due on the first day of June, annually, and every member shall be considered an annual subscriber for the same sum, until he shall have given notice to the secretary that he wishes to withdraw from the Society.

ART. IV. Nine Managers shall be chosen annually to superintend the concerns of the Society; who shall appoint from among their own number a President and Secretary, who shall likewise perform the duties of Librarian and Treasurer; and these managers shall have power to fill all vacancies, that may occur in their own body during the period for which they are chosen.

ART. V. A general meeting of the Society shall be held at the Independent Church, in Archdale Street, on the third Sunday in May, annually. At this meeting, a report of the managers shall be made, giving an account of their transactions during the past year, the state of the funds, and the amount of books on hand. New managers shall also be chosen. Of this meeting, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due notice.

ART. VI. The funds of the Society shall be employed in purchasing or printing such books as the managers shall select, or approve; and each member shall be entitled to receive, on application to the librarian, his due proportion of the books so procured.

ART. VII. Meetings of the managers shall be held on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October; and the President, or, in his absence, any three of the managers, shall be empowered to

call a meeting of the board, whenever he or they may deem it expedient; and at such meetings, three members shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum.

ART. VIII. Proper measures shall be adopted by the managers to establish such a correspondence as shall tend to promote the designs of the Society.

ART. IX. All books presented or bequeathed to the Society, and likewise all books purchased, or printed, by order of the managers, and which shall not be called for by the subscribers within three months, shall be at the disposal of the Managers.

ART. X. The foregoing rules shall not be altered, nor any new rules adopted, otherwise than by a majority of two thirds of the members present at a meeting convoked for this specific purpose.

Theological Seminaries.

IT has been voted by the Episcopal Convention recently assembled at Philadelphia, that the Seminary shall be removed from New Haven, and united with a similar establishment in New York. This arrangeinent was made in consequence of a large donation to the Seminary on condition of its being situated in New York. It is not to be in the city, but in some part of the state.

A Theological Seminary has lately been established at Auburn, N. Y. under the direction of three Professors, namely, Rev. Matthew R. Perrin, D. D. Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government; Rev. Henry Mills, Professor of Biblical Criticism and Oriental Literature; Rev. Dyric C. Lansing, Professor of Sacred Rhetoric. Accommodations are furnished to commence with twenty or thirty young men.

The German Lutheran Church has funds accumulating for the establishment of a Theological Institution.

SIR,

Dr. Chauncy a Unitarian.

Boston, Oct. 25.

In the ninth number of the Unitarian Miscellany I observed Dr. Chauncy's name classed with those of trinitarians. Having doubts on this subject, I inquired respecting the fact of a gentleman, who was ten years a deacon of Dr. Chauncy's church, and he informed me that he was not a trinitarian. This can be relied on, as the gentleman here referred to was an intimate friend and warm admirer of Dr. Chauncy, and himself a unitarian. 0.

Ordinations.

The Rev. RICHARD M. HODGES, from the Theological School at Harvard University, was ordained in Bridgwater, Mass. on the 12th of September. Services by the Rev. Mr. Sanger of Dover; Rev. Mr. Lowell of Boston; Rev. Dr. Harris of Dorchester; Rev. Mr. Briggs of Lexington; Rev. Mr. Palfrey of Boston.

The REV. BENJAMIN FESSENDEN, from Harvard University, was ordained over the society in East Bridgwater on the 19th of September. Services by the Rev. Mr. Ware of Boston; Rev. Mr. Clark of Norton; Rev. Dr. Ware of Cambridge; Rev. Mr. Kendall of Plymouth.

On the 20th of September, the REV. JAMES FLINT was installed in Salem, Mass. as successor to the late Dr. Bentley. Services by the Rev. Mr. Flint of Cohasset; Rev. Mr. Colman; Rev. Dr. Harris of Dorchester; Rev. Dr. Prince and Rev. Mr. Brazer of Salem; Rev. Mr. Bartlett, of Marblehead.

To Subscribers.

With the present number of the Miscellany, we send out the second edition of the third number. Should any of our subscribers not have received the three first numbers, we request them to give notice to the Secretary of the Baltimore Unitarian Book Society, and they will be immediately supplied. The other numbers of the first volume will be reprinted as expeditiously as possible.

Knowledge of the Scriptures.

In the number of the Miscellany for September were offered a few remarks upon a translation of the Bible. No one can doubt, that better translation of the sacred writings might be given, than the one in common use. But a new version is only a small part of what is wanted. The christian community ought to have more definite and rational notions about the Scriptures themselves. With the views, which at present prevail, the most perfect translation would be exposed to great abuses; for it would be impossible to make one, which should at once convey to readers of the present day the same ideas, that were received by the persons, to whom these writings were first addressed.

There is prevalent a confused notion of something supernatural in the composition of the sacred Scriptures, which forbids us to examine them as we do other writings. An air of mystery and awfulness is thrown around them. Many persons open the Bible with feelings, such as we may conceive to have gone along with a Jew into the temple of Solomon. Believing that this volume is the word of God, that the sacred penmen wrote as they were commanded by the Holy Spirit, that they de