REGISTER; RELIGIOUS AND PHILANTHROPIC. Newport, Isle of Wight, Peace Meeting... Ministerial Removal, Rev. J. G. Teggin.......... Bequest of the late Mr. John Chapman, of Manchester Daniel Parsons, Esq., of Dudley - Mr. John Dixon, of Newcastle on Tyne.......... Newcastle and North of England Unitarian Christian Death of Mr. Thomas Ismay Proctor, of Gateshead......... 287 Mrs. Freme, of Brattleborough, Vermont West Riding, Yorkshire, Unitarian Tract Society Birmingham New Hall Hill Unitarian Church........ Midland District Unitarian Meeting Lancashire and Cheshire Provincial Meeting Newcastle Hanover Square Chapel Day School for REGISTER; RELIGIOUS AND PHILANTHROPIC. Page Birmingham New Meeting, Testimonial to Rev. S. Bache 476 Bury Total Abstinence Society Report Solly's Lectures on the Development of Religious Life... 131, 185 Variations in the Church established by Law.. Kell on the self-sacrificing zeal of our pious Forefathers... 229 Robinson, Rev. John, of Leyden, Farewell Address in 1620.... 156 Revelation and Reason, Christianity and Nature, The Analogy. Rathbone, William, Esq., of Liverpool, and Father Mathew.... 239 192 Southern Unitarian Fund Page Sabbath, The temporal advantages of the, Essay on 266 ... B. M. B. 16, 79, 108, 156, 213, 252, 304, 353, 402, 444, 490 C. Y. M.............21, 90, 120, 174, 220, 276, 314, 415, 464, 486 178, 210, 309 J. W. F. T. M. Joseph Dare Jane Ashby Theological Queries Theology, Natural, No. 1, Proofs of Design in Creation .. .......... 189 Unity, The Divine ......... Goldalming Congregational Meeting. Opening of Carmarthen Chapel 473 475 511 411 Winlaton Literary and Mechanics' Institution Ware, Rev. H. jun., D.D., Biographical Sketch of 157, 199 236, 475 Working Classes, Why so little influenced by ministrations of Woods, J. C., on Religious Meditation, Review 337 377 Ware, Henry Jun., Prose Works, Review of....... WHAT is Christianity; Christianity as taught by Christ, Christianity as inculcated in the history and instructions of Jesus of Nazareth; in precept and example, in spirit and act, in prayer and performance, in the life, death, and resurrection of the Author and Finisher of our faith? What is Christianity as therein taught? Not the commandment of Man; not the tradition of Elders; not the elaborated philosophy of human wisdom, or the inspiration of mere human genius, or the promptings of human intuition, or the condensation of the byegone experiences of the world; not a cumbersome Formula of ceremonial observance, bowings and crossings, sprinkling and incense, procession and invocation, melancholy and moping, sadness and sackcloth; not bodily genuflections, fleshly mortifications, penance, maceration, and prostration, whether internal or external, of mind or form; not subserviency to sacerdotal craft, or blind obeisance to sacerdotal authority; not the utterance of vain repetitions in the worship of we know not what, as if echoing sound would extort accordance with human entreaties; not darkness, confusion, vindictiveness, anathema, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. All these, and more, much more of a similar character may have been, yea actually have been called, say rather miscalled Christianity, and enforced on human belief and practice by dint of human authority, in place of the holy, wise, benevolent, and divine original, which they counterfeited and carricatured, travestied and profaned; but they are its perversions, its corruptions, not its sanctifying and life-giving truths. Why? Because they curse where Christianity would bless, they distort |