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A Sermon on the occasion of the Death of the Rev. Oliver Morris, preached in Christ's Church, Alexandria, on Sunday, 18th of September, 1825. By the Rev. William Meade.

Letters on the Religious Notions of A. Campbell and others, as exhibited in their Writings, Orations, &c. addressed particularly to the Baptists comprising the Mahoning Association. By a Regular Baptist. Ravenna, Ohio.

St. Chrysostom on the Priesthood. Translated from the original Greek, with Notes and a Life of the Fathers, by the Rev. Henry M. Mason, A. M. Rector of St. John's Church, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Philadelphia. E. Littell.

Immortality proved by the Testimony of Sense; in which is contemplated the Doctrine of Spectres, and the Existence of a particular Spectre. By Abraham Cumming, A. M. Price 40 cents. Bath, Me.

Letters on the Gospels. By Miss Hannah Adams. Second Edition. Cambridge. 18mo. pp. 160.

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an Outline of an Institution for the Education of Teachers. By James G. Carter. Boston. Bowles & Dearborn. 8vo. pp. 60.

The Class-Book of American Literature; consisting principally of Selections in the Departments of History, Biography, Prose, Fiction, Poetry, &c. from the Best Writers of our own Country. Designed to be used as a Reading-Book in American Schools. By John Frost. Boston. J. H. A. Frost. 12mo. pp. 288.

A Spanish Grammar, dedicated to the Youth of North America. By A. De Letamendi, late Consul of Spain for East Florida. Price $1,50. Charleston, S. C. W. Riley.

History of the United States, from their First Settlement as Colonies to the close of the war with Great Britain in 1815. New-York. Collins & Hannay. 12mo. pp. 281.

Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1826. Vol. IV. New-York. J. Seymour. 8vo. pp. 308.

Elements of History, Ancient and Modern; with Historical Charts. By J. E. Worcester. Second Edition. Boston. Hilliard, Gray & Co. 12mo. pp. 324.

A Full Report of the Trial of Henry Eckford, Thomas Vermilyea, Joseph G. Swift, William P. Rathbone, and others, for Conspiracy to defraud, &c. Embracing the whole Evidence, and the Speeches of the Counsel on both sides. New-York. pp. 48.

An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and of the application of Algebra to Geometry; from the Mathematics of Lacroix and Bezout. Translated from the French, for the Use of the Students of the University, Cambridge, N. E. Cambridge, N. E. 8vo. pp. 161,

The Mother's Catechism; containing Common Things necessary to be known at an Early Age. A new Edition, carefully revised and enlarged. Charleston, S. C.

A Discourse on the Western Autumnal Disease; read before the Tenth District Medical Society of Ohio, at Chilicothe, May 30, 1826. By J. W. Vethuke, M. D.

A Narrative of the Material Facts in relation to the building of the two Greek Frigates. By Alexander Contostavlos. New-York. pp. 88.

Report of the Evidence and Reasons of the Award between Johannes Orlandos and Andreas Luriottis, Greek Deputies, on the one part; and LeRoy, Bayard & Co. and G. S. Howland on the other part. By the Arbitrators. New-York. W. E. Dean. pp. 72. Refutations of the Reasons assigned by the Arbitrators, for their Award in the case of the two Greek Frigates. By H. D. Sedgwick. New-York. J. Seymour.

Address delivered before the Benevolent Society of Bowdoin College, Tuesday Evening, September 5, 1826. By Samuel P. Newman. Portland. Printed at the Mirror Office. 8vo. pp.

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evening of Monday following, in the Second Baptist Church, Boston. By Lowell Mason. Boston. Hilliard, Gray & Co. 8vo. pp. 42.

A Discourse delivered on the 24th of October, 1826, before the Society for the Commemoration of the Landing of William Penn. Philadelphia. H. C. Carey & I. Lea. 8vo.

Africa; a Poem. Second Edition. Andover. Flagg & Gould. 12mo. The keys; a Vision of Samaritanus. Chilicothe, Ohio. 12mo. pp. 54.

The Friend to Health; being a Selection of valuable Truths relating to the Preservation of Health, from the works of Thacher, Franklin, Thompson, Salzmann, &c. Boston. Marsh & Capen. 12mo. pp. 107.

Elnathan; a Narrative illustrative of the Manners of the Ancient Israelites. Philadelphia. 18mo. pp. 136.

Review of Bishop Hobart's Sermon, entitled "The United States of America compared with some European Countries, particularly England," contained in the London Quarterly Theological Review for June, 1826; with two Answers to the same, one in the New-York Christian Journal for October, 1826, and the other in the London Christian Remembrancer for September, 1826. New-York. T. & J. Swords.

MONTHLY RECORD.

RELIGIOUS.

REVIVALS, we rejoice to say, are becoming too numerous in our country to admit of being generally mentioned in our Record; yet such as possess a peculiar interest from the places where they exist, or from other causes, we shall occasionally notice.

A late letter from a clergyman in Georgia, who attended a meeting of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, at Washington, in the latter state, contains some interesting statements, from which we select the following:

"A good work of grace has already commenced in several places in the state.

During Synod, intelligence came from Milledgeville, that a work of grace had commenced among the members of the Legislature. At an anxious meeting, fifteen of them were inquirers, and five or six indulged a hope that they had found the Messiah.

Intelligence was received from Barnwell, S. C. One of the missionaries in the employ of the South Carolina Domestic Missionary Society, discouraged by the small success of a year's labour, had preached his parting sermon. After the meeting, sixteen persons came in great distress of mind, tel

ling him their feelings, and entreating his prayers and instructions.

The revival in Athens College, Geo. continued until the middle of November, when vacation commenced. At that time thirty students were hopeful subjects of the work. Before they separated, fifty signed a written resolution that they would stedfastly seek for saving faith in Jesus Christ. In the town the work is still progressing.

In Washington, two days before the meeting of Synod, twenty inquirers were present at the first anxious meeting. These meetings were continued every day, and at the sixth meeting between sixty and seventy were present. Sermons were delivered daily to crowded audiences, who by their fixed attention and silent tears, discovered a deep and inceasing solemnity.

The Lexington Missionary Society, Ky., were able the last year to procure the labours of but one missionary, and that only for a small portion of time.

Conference of Churches.-Sixteen churches, lately convened, by pastors and delegates, at Newport, N. H., formed themselves into a circular conference, agreeably to the recommendation of the General Association of the state. The conference recommended to all the churches within its limits, the observance of the first day of January as a season of united and special prayer for the Holy Spirit on their churches and congregations.

Sixty-five thousand copies of the Christian Almanac (which ought to be the universal almanac) have been issued by the American Tract Society, for 1827. The types are kept standing for further use. We have seen it stated that ninety thousand copies of the Farmer's Almanac, have been published (at Boston) the present year.

"Israel's Advocate" is to be discontinued, by a vote of the American Jew's Society.

The Roman Catholic Bishops in EngLand, have lately published a Declaration of the doctrines of their church, and an appeal to their Protestant fellowcountrymen, respecting the misrepre

sentations and disabilities to which they are subjected. Some paragraphs from these documents have come to us through the Christian Register.-In respect to the civil wrongs of the Catholics the appeal is earnest, just, and forcible. It ought to be successful. We have always wondered at the British policy towards the Catholics. The world is surely old enough to have taught the British Parliament that persecution, instead of crushing, always builds up sects and parties. They are nourished more by clouds than by sunshine.

The Bishops notice the charge that the Catholic church is opposed to the circulation of the scriptures,-which they feebly meet as follows.

"The Catholic church has never forbidden or discouraged the reading or the circulation of authentic copies of the sacred Scriptures, in the original languages.

As to the translations of the Holy Scriptures into modern languages, the Catholic church requires that none should be put into the hands of the faithful but such as are acknowledged by ecclesiastical authority to be accurate and conformable to the sense of the originals. There never was a general law of the Catholic church prohibiting the reading of authorized translations of the Scriptures; but considering that many by their ignorance and evil dispositions, have perverted the meaning of the sacred text to their own destruction, the Catholic church has thought it prudent to make a regulation, that the faithful should be guided in this matter by the advice of their respective pastors.

But when the reading and the circulation of the Scriptures are urged and recommended as the entire rule of faith, as the sole means by which men are to be brought to the certain and specific knowledge of the doctrines, precepts, and institutions of Christ; and when the Scripures so read and circulated are left to the interpretation and private judgment of each individual: then such reading, circulation, and interpretation are forbidden by the Catholic church, because the Catholic church knows that the circulation of the Scriptures, and the interpretation of them by each one's private judgment, was not the means

ordained by Christ for the communication of the true knowledge of his laws to all nations-she knows that Christianity was established in many countries before one book of the New Testament was written-that it was not by means of the Scriptures that the apostles and their successors converted nations, or any one nation to the unity of the Christian faith-that the unauthorized reading and circulation of the Scriptures, and the interpretation of them by private judgment, are calculated to lead men to contradic

tory doctrines on the primary articles of Christian belief; to inconsistent forms of worship, which cannot all be constituent parts of the uniform and sublime system of Christianity; to errors and fanaticism in religion, and to seditions and the greatest disorders in states and kingdoms."

Converted Jews at Constantinople. A letter from Professor King to the Secretary of the American Board, dated June, 1826, says, Mr. Wolff has just arrived here, and is now delivering lectures on the different sects in the East. He informs me that there are at Constantinople, five hundred Jews who now profess to believe in Christ, and who came to the knowledge of the truth through Jews, to whom he had preached the Gospel at Jerusalem. Should they prove to be truly converted, it would be one of the most interesting events that has transpired since apostolic times. Some of the believing Rabbies, it is supposed, have been put to death; and the Jews, in a village near Constantinople, assembled after Mr. Wolff's departure from that place, and crucified a dog, to express their contempt of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.

Mr. Wolff expected soon to return again to Palestine.

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To the American Board of Missions from October 21 to Nov. 21, $7,872,88, besides legacies, clothing &c.

POLITICAL.

Congress assembled on the sixth of December. The first half of the President's message relates to our comand the remainder to our fiscal and mercial concerns with other nations, other domestic affairs. In respect to the former, the most serious difficulty exists in our relations with Great Britinterdicted the trade of the United ain; that Government having not only States to their West India possessions, but abrubtly closed the door of negociation on the subject.

In noticing the death of the late Emperor Alexander, the President remarks, that the United States have been deprived by that event of a long, also states that he has the most satisfactried, steady, and faithful friend. He tory assurances, that the sentiments of the reigning Emperor towards the United States are altogether conformable to those which had so long and constantly animated his imperial broth

er.

Georgia. The government of Georgia appears to have been again engaged in feverish legislation touching their We hear of the Senate preparing to late scheme for an Indian-land lottery. bring two several complaints to the House of Representatives at Washington, against the President of the United States, first for not removing Colonel Crowell from his Indian agency, and secondly, for not arresting and trying General Gaines, notwithstanding that the President had been requested so to do, and that repeatedly, by the Government of Georgia. Whether Governor Troup intends to stand by his arms during the trial of the President we are not informed.

South America.-If an impression were to be taken implicitly from the newspapers, respecting Colombia, it would seem that that republic is in a condition not far removed from anarchy, and that some of the departments are precipitating themselves, and the country into a monarchy, or something worse, under Bolivar. The Liberator himself is made the subject

of much suspicion and reproach. He is represented,-invidiously, as we believe, in his own country, and hastily and ungenerously in this,-as openly aspiring to royalty. The charge, we think, is to be attributed, not so much to his ambition, as to that of his more aspiring, but less distinguished fellow-chieftains. He is, in some degree a visionary politician, and hence there may be found among his measures, as in his "Bolivian code," perhaps, some things which are not exactly consistent with republicanism; but that he is aspiring to a throne, his general course of conduct seems to us to contradict. Suspicions may be just; but for ourselves we must wait for further proof before we will hold him guilty of the Bonapartean views, which in not very "ambiguous voices," are attributed to him.

In respect to the Colombian Government, it is undoubtedly in a state of partial disorganization. It is likewise true that Quito and Guayaquil, under a strong apprehension of the difficulties which surrounded them, have urgently requested Bolivar to act as supreme dictator. There is however one favourable feature in the condition of the country: a general solicitude for the public safety pervades all parties, apparently without the prevalence of very high party feeling.

Greece. The last important measure in Greece, was at the city of Athens, which the Turks succeeded in capturing about the middle of August. They had besieged the place for some days, when the Greeks, having collected their forces, gave them battle. The Greeks were unsuccessful, and the place yielded to the enemy, with the exception it is said, of a strong and well provisioned citadel which remains in the possession of the besieged. Besides the loss of Athens, the Greeks appear to have suffered no military reverses. They are however represented as suffering greatly from want of the necessaries of life-more even from this cause, than from the direct operations of their cruel enemies. It extends to their women and children, no less than to the men in arms; and we are glad to notice that this feature of their sufferings is beginning to excite the sympathies and efforts of their

friends, both in Europe and in this country. Our countryman, Jarvis in a letter to Mr. Everett, of Congress, writes that "the Committees for the relief of the Greeks in France, Holland, and Geneva, have sent twelve cargoes of provisions, and an agent to superintend their distribution. This has prevented the final starvation of the country." Meetings for a similar object have recently been held in Philadelphia, where one gentleman (whose name should be known) offers to give one third of a cargo of one thousand barrels of flour.

Constantinople.-The Sublime Porte lately issued a decree against sedition in other words, against its subjects talking of "what's done in the Čabi

net."

"Every person," says the proclamation, "besides employing himself in his own affairs, and living honestly, ought incessantly to address his prayers to heaven for the life of him who is the shadow of the Almighty on earth, and whose munificence continually crowns his subjects with new benefits. But it must be remembered as notified, that after this day, all persons must abstain from circulating any false report, which may excite disturbance, to meddle with subjects in which they ought not to meddle, and thus to incur, in this world and the other, the wrath and the punishment of the Almighty.

"If any one shall neglect this notification, and shall disobey it-misfortune be to the transgressors, whoever they are! Be they men or women, they shall be seized; and the men shall be at the same instant punished in different places, to serve as an example to others-as for the women, they shall be strangled, and thrown into the sea."

It is added in the French papers, that a large number of men and women have already suffered death under this decree; for, according to the firman, to say This or that is to be done," or Things are going thus or thus," is to be guilty of sedition.

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Russia and Turkey.-The long protracted discussions respecting the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, have at length resulted in the acceptance of the Russian ultimatum, by

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