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tory and numbers opens before us a vast missionary field, in which, with all Christian sects, it is our equal and immediate duty to be actively en gaged, alike for the interests of our fellow-men, for the life of our churches, and to secure unity of action in our denomination.

4th. Resolved, That, as a distinguishing characteristic of our denomination has always been to seek for the elements of pure Christian truth, and to enforce their direct application to human life, we feel it to be our duty, at the present time, to authenticate the principles of Christian faith, by Scriptural study, by intelligent inquiry, and by practical piety, and thus to meet the skepticism, the indecision, and the worldliness of our times.

5th. Resolved, That, while we gratefully remember the labors of a faithful father in the ministry, Rev. ELIJAH DUNBAR of Peterborough, and the active zeal and philanthropy of a younger brother, Rev. Mr. PERKINS of Cincinnati, who have passed on from their earthly life, we have cause for rejoicing, in view of our present need, that during the past year no active minister of our Christian connection, with a single exception, has been removed by death.

The discussion of these resolutions was immediately entered upon, after the adoption of the Rules and Regulations established at former Conventions. Clergymen of other denominations in Springfield who were present were invited to take seats in the Convention, and the courtesy was appropriately acknowledged by the Rev. Dr. Osgood of the First Church. The invitation was also extended to the Rev. Dr. Massoch, a Unitarian minister from Hungary. In the course of the discussions in the Convention the following brethren offered remarks: - Bellows and Osgood of New York, Farley of Brooklyn, Hall of Providence, Hill and Hale of Worcester, Greene of Brookfield, Willard of Deerfield, Ellis of Northampton, Bellows of Barnstable, Lincoln of Kensington, N. H., Richardson of Chelsea, Pierpont of Medford, Briggs of Plymouth, Palfrey of Belfast, Me., Brigham of Taunton, Ellis of Charlestown, Webster of Wheeling, Va., Nute of Scituate, Nightingale of Chicopee, Hall of Dorchester, Gannett, Lincoln, and Parkman of Boston, Simmons of Springfield, Osgood of Cohasset, Harrington of Hartford, Ct., Hill of Waltham, Osgood of Springfield, and Robert Rantoul, Esq., of Beverly.

Dr. Massoch, after a few sentences in English, addressed he Convention very fluently in Latin.

The Collation, provided by the ladies of the Second Parish in Hampden Hall, afforded the highest social enjoyment on Wednesday evening, and some pleasant and brief speeches were made here by Deacon Greele and Rev. Dr. Parkman of Boston, Rev. Dr. Osgood of Springfield, and Rev. Mr. Osgood of New York.

On Thursday morning, at 9 o'clock, after devotional exercises by Rev. Mr. Ellis of Charlestown, a sermon was preached by Rev. C. T. Brooks of Newport, R. I., from Isaiah lxiii. 8., on the Saving Grace of Sincerity. The discussion of the Resolutions was then continued. Another sermon was preached in the evening by Rev. G. W. Briggs of Plymouth, from John xiii. 25, 26, "He then, lying on Jesus's breast, saith unto him, Lord, who is it? And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." Meetings for religious speeches, prayer, and praise were held in the vestry of the church on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, at 74 o'clock.

A desire was expressed on the part of some members that the Convention should enter upon the discussion of the Fugitive Slave Bill.

This proposition was opposed by others. It was decided, however, to charge the Business Committee with the preparation of a resolution concerning it, which was adopted almost unanimously, as follows: —

Resolved, That we regard with profound sorrow and detestation the provisions of a law recently enacted by our national legislature, and known as the Fugitive Slave Bill, and that we believe this opinion to be general; and we are determined to use all righteous measures to secure its speedy repeal.

We hardly need to add, that the opposition to the discussion of this subject was wholly independent of the opinions held by dissentients of the character of the Fugitive Slave Bill. Some of them regarded the topic as wholly irrelevant to the occasion, as much so as the subject of Capital Punishment or Socialism would have been. Others objected to its introduction, because they feared that it would receive only a hasty, superficial, or very partial discussion, while they would have been glad to have had even the whole time of the Convention devoted to a thorough, broad, and complete consideration of the religious or casuistical bearings of the Bill. It will be perceived that the resolution leaves the subject before the minds of the various members of the Convention almost precisely in the same condition in which they found it. The interpretation of the word righteous covers a very large and free range in our communities now.

Ordinations. MR. JOHN MCCARTY WINDSOR, from the Theological School at Meadville, Pa., was ordained as an Evangelist, in the Church of the Divine Unity, NEW YORK, on Sunday evening, September 29th. A council had previously been held at the house of Rev. H. W. Bellows. The Introductory Prayer was offered by Rev. Austin Craig of Feltville, N. J.; Sermon, by Rev. H. W. Bellows of New York; Prayer of Ordination, by Rev. F. A. Farley of Brooklyn; Charge, by Rev. C. H. Fay of New York; Fellowship of the Churches, by Rev. S. Osgood of New York; Concluding Prayer, by Rev. J. W. Webster of Wheeling, Va.

MR. SAMUEL LARNARD, also from the School at Meadville, was ordained as an Evangelist, at the Church of the Saviour, BROOKLYN, L. I., on Sunday evening, October 6th. A council had previously been held at the house of Rev. Dr. Farley. The Sermon was preached by Rev. H. W. Bellows. Rev. S. Osgood offered the Prayer of Ordination, and extended the Fellowship of the Churches. Rev. Dr. Farley delivered the Charge. The other services were by Rev. T. B. Thayer of Brooklyn.

OBITUARY.

Died in Cambridge, August 31, Mrs. ELIZABETH B. WARE, widow of the late Rev. Professor Henry Ware, Senior, aged 74.

In the beautiful memorial tribute to the late Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard College, by his fellow Professor, Dr. Palfrey, mention is made of the domestic traits and the enjoyment of home happiness which were so richly granted to him whose honored and beloved partner

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has now followed him to the believer's rest. A companionship of more than forty years was allotted to them. Most pleasantly do their images rise up before us. One path through the College grounds will always recall to us those images. He was a man of rare candor, of great gentleness of speech, and of an excellent spirit. He had a frugal home, yet always a crowded table. With a quiver like that of which the Psalmist speaks (Psalm cxxvii.), alike remarkable for its fulness and the character of its contents, his family also embraced for many years a very large number of students. His dependence upon his partner, therefore, was such as to engage all virtues and all good energies in a wife. She was equal to her station, and worthy of it. The impression made by her calm and faithful spirit, her friendliness and wise care, endeared her to those who were members of her household. She was uniformly respected by all who knew her through every period of her life, the close of which, though somewhat sudden, was attended by many mercies, and met by a spirit resigned and prepared for death.

Died in Quincy, Sunday, September 1st, 1850, aged 77, MRS. ELIZA SUSAN MORTON QUINCY, wife of Hon. Josiah Quincy, late President of Harvard College.

So respectful and affectionate are our remembrances of this most excellent woman, that we could scarce refrain from expressing our sense of them after her departure from the earth, even if the many almost public stations which she occupied and so much adorned did not require such a commemoration of her. Her refined and dignified features, her gentle and courteous address, her modest and sincere form of speech, come up impressively before us, and remind us that only a most delicate memorial can befit the graces of her character. It is now more than a score of years since as a young guest we were first privileged to see her in her own home at Cambridge. We recall readily, for we have never forgotten, the impression which we then received from her benevolent greeting and her friendly words. Each subsequent interview or visit, with an increased ability to appreciate excellences of character, and a better instructed estimate of its highest and most difficult virtues, has led us to regard Mrs. Quincy as one of the most admirable examples of her sex in every thing that refines, softeus, and elevates the best human sensibilities, while natural endowments, and ladylike graces, and true Christian acquirements, completed the engaging whole. Her politeness was uniform and natural, and without a trace of art. Her judgments were always most kind and generous. Her interest in those who were brought into incidental relations with her made friends of those who would not have been slighted if they had been left to be strangers. Her pure and hearty love of every thing that is benevolent or Christian, not only proved, but illustrated, that "the law of God was in her heart,' and that she had the precious ornament of “a meek and quiet spirit." Always upon her tongue was the law of kindness." She was in every respect one of those pure and elevated persons, whose characters and death make it easier for us to believe in such a state beyond the grave as our faith promises to the good. The highest test which we can apply to any character is to ask ourselves whether its translation from the earth makes heaven nearer and more real to us. That test is tried and commended to us by the decease of Mrs. Quincy.

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tinguished merchant and banker, of New York, whose death in 1781 committed his daughter to the care of her brother, the late General Morton, of New York. She was married in 1797, and since that period has shared the public honors and responsibilities of her distinguished husband, in the succession of eminent offices which he has filled in his long career of services to the nation, the State, the courts of justice, the chief magistracy of the city, and to the College of which he was the President and the historian, all of which he has passed through only to make them more honorable to his successors by his unstained integrity and his fidelity. How much of aid and strength he must have derived in many arduous and anxious labors from his late companion, her own full sympathy with him can alone afford the estimate. During the sixteen years of Mr. Quincy's Presidency over the College, Mrs. Quincy won the warm esteem and love of the members of the successive classes, and was never named but to be honored.

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Died in Milford, N. H., on September 3d, Rev. ELIJAH DUNBAR, aged 77. Mr. Dunbar was born in that part of Stoughton, Mass., which now forms the township of Canton. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1791, in a class which had a somewhat singular notoriety in College, on account of a half comic and half satirical poem, called Classology," written by William Biglow, a member of the class. Mr. Dunbar was afterwards a Tutor in Williams College, and was ordained, October 23, 1799, as pastor of the church in Peterborough, N. H., where he continued to preach till February, 1827. He remained in the town, with the general good will and respect of all who had been his parishioners, till two or three years before his death, during which period he resided in Milford. After his decease, his remains were carried to Peterborough, where funeral services were performed by his friend and neighbour, Rev. Levi W. Leonard, D. D., and his successor, Rev. Liberty Billings. Mr. Dunbar was a man of a most genial nature, as simple, credulous, and unsuspecting as a child. He was reputed a good scholar before his settlement, and had a memory of remarkable tenacity; but his circumstances, and especially his trying domestic relations and afflictions, were not favorable to intellectual culture. He belonged to the Arminian school, and at one period of his ministry advocated very strongly the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked. His life was one of many and great trials; but few men have gone through the world with a more unsullied character; few have preserved so entirely the sweetness of their affections, under sore and repeated disappointments, and few are remembered by those who knew them well with more unmingled satisfaction. We love to dwell on his memory, as that of a thoroughly good man, who had in his composition no admixture of bitterness or guile.

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Adams, President John, his Life and
Works, Vol. II., 493.
Africa, Conquest of, 193-Hunter's
Life in South, 492.

Agassiz, Prof. L, his Tour to Lake
Superior, reviewed, 9-37- his
Lectures by the Way, 11-17 —
Glacial Theory, 17-Narrative of
the Voyage, 19.

Allen, Dr. Nathan, his Essay on the
Opium Trade, 297.
Americans, Illustrious, Lester's Gal-
lery of, 157.

Americus Vespucius, Researches con-
cerning him, 491.
Anniversaries, The, 158.
Antiquarian Society, American, 489.
Arabia, The Traditions of, 187.
Architects and Architecture, 278 -
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Arithmetic practically applied, 150.
Astræa, A Poem by Dr. Holmes, 499.
Astronomy, The Elements of, 149 -

The Progress of, 492.
Atheistic Philosophy, Modern, 229.
Austria and Hungary, Two Articles

on their Relations, in the North
American Review, criticized and
replied to, 417-481.

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Thoughts, 148.

Burnap, Rev. Dr. G. W., his Dis-
courses on the Rectitude of Hu-
man Nature, 145- his Address
before the Ministerial Conference
on the Importance of Theological
Study, 165-184.

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Christ, Elements of Influence in the
Character of, Article on the, 377-
396 its Peculiarity, 381
Reality, 383 its Beauty, 385.
its Power, 387- its Influence on
Human Life, 392 - 395.

Christ, the, of the Gospels and of St.
Paul, Article on the Three Forms

of Messianic Representation, 1-9.
Christ, The Words of, 377.
Christianity and Mahometanism, 203.
Church of the Saviour, its Architec-
ture, 285.
Clarke, J. F., his Service Book, 270.
Cleveland, R. J., his Voyages and

Commercial Enterprises, 293.
Collation, The Anniversary, 162.
College, Harvard, Commencement
at, 303.

Conference, Ministerial, 163.
Conte, Dr. J. L. Le, on the Coleop-
tera of Lake Superior, 25.
Convention of Congregational Min-
isters, 163.

Convention, Unitarian, at Springfield,
518.

Creation, the Expression of a
Thought, 27.
Cumming, R. G., his Hunter's Life
in South Africa, 492.

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