ination. They form one vast brotherhood, and their trials, their labours, and their hopes are common. Neither difference of language, nor separating oceans, nor diversity of government and of ecclesiastical organizations, nor variety of modes of worship, can divide them. They have their various difficulties to encounter, and their respective works to perform. And how they should delight to encourage each other in every good enterprise, rejoice in each other's success, stimulate and reprove each other (when reproof is necessary) with kindness, and not with bitterness; and thus strive to hasten the universal triumph of the kingdom of their common Lord! And how appropriate to them is the prayer of England's sweetest religious bard,* with Dipped in the fountain of eternal love. * Cowper-The Task, book vi. INDEX. Aborigines (see North America). Americans, best method for obtaining correct knowl- American Revolution, effects of the, on religion, 102. of, 335, note. 66 Tract Society, operations of the, 167. Prison Discipline Society, 174. the, 140. Camp-meetings, origin and nature of, 216. Charters of American Colonies, curious character Cheever, Rev. G. B., extract from lecture of, 319. Christians, origin and belief of the, 280, 281. Christianity, only remedy for slavery in the United 265, 269. Churches, evangelical, missionary efforts of the, 317. Home Missionary Society, operations of Church, relation of unconverted men to the, 187. 66 66 union of, with State gradually dissolved, 104. Church edifices, how built in cities and large towns, 132. Cobb, Mr. Nathl. R., charitable resolutions of, 328. 66 151. Colonial era, state of religion in the, 99. Atonement, doctrine of, illustrated by American Colonists, religious character of the early, 51, 52. Ballou, Rev. H., work of, on the Atonement alluded Banditti, no organized hordes of, in United States, Colonization Society, history of the, 314. Colony, influence of, at Liberia, 315. at Plymouth, account of the, 47-51. Roger Williams not the founder of the, Colony at Plymouth, causes of aversion of, to prel- Congregations, new, how formed, 133. Congregationalists, parent stock of those in Eng- Congregationalists, not Dissenters, 225. present religious system of, 225. mode of church discipline among, 226. pastoral office among early, lost by dismis- Convent at Charlestown, burning of the, 270, note. Covenant, Half-way, introduction of the, 273. Deaf and Dumb, history of asylums for the, 179. Delaware, early settlement of, 19, 68. early relations between Church and State in, 90. De Tocqueville, works of, on America noticed, 31, 32. note. District of Columbia, origin of the, 35. Dwight, Rev. Dr., opinion of, on union of Church Lutheran Church, Theological Seminary of the, 164. Education, attention of Puritans to, 147. societies of different sects, 157, 159. Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, labours of, among the In- Eliot, Rev. John, missionary labours of, 294. Episcopal (see Protestant). "Evangelical Association," account of the, 261. statistics of missionary efforts of, 317. 46 the, 312. Foreign Missionary Society of Maryland, early settlement of, 18. effects of early union of Church and State Maryland, early religious toleration in, 62. 66 115. effects of disunion of Church and State in, Maryland, Declaration of Rights in, 111. 66 Massachusetts, early settlement of, 17, 52 54, 55. 55. Massachusetts, dissolution of union of Church and Massacre at St. Charles city, Virginia, notice of, Maternal Societies. 156. Mather, Cotton, notice of, 101. Mayhew, Rev. Thomas, missionary labours of, 294. Methodist ministers, salaries of, 323, note. Methodist Episcopal Church, history and organiza religious belief and discipline of, 246. Home Missions of, 145. Foreign Missions of the, 310. Methodists, Primitive, account of the, 262 Ministers, salaries of, how raised, 136. 46 how trained and settled, 138. proportion of evangelical Protestant, to Ministers, evangelical, not sufficient for present. Ministers, total amount raised to support, 323. New-England, indebted to the religion of the colo- | Peace societies, 176. cause of rapid growth of settlements in, 57. influence of early union of Church and State relations between Church and State in, 87. introduction and history of Unitarianism in, New-Hampshire, early settlement of, 17, 57. 90. early eminent ministers of, 67. 66 Penn, William, notice of, 69. 66 66 tradition respecting the, 82. - early relations between Church and State in, Political disturbances in United States, how exag- gerated abroad, 331. Political institutions, firm attachment to, 332, note. churches, how organized, 233. 66 46 Synod of the, noticed, 236. General Assembly of the, nature of, 237. origin and progress of Old and New School parties in, 242. differences between Old and New School, 244. Board of Foreign Missions of the, 307, 308. 66 Primary schools, 146. note. Protestant religion early established in South Caro- Protestant Episcopal Church, account of the, 220. Public opinion, alleged tyranny of, in United States, Public disturbances and crimes, comparative few- Puritans, origin and character of the, 44-47. attention of the, to education, 147. ecclesiastical usages of the, 272. Religion, institutions of, not chargeable with public | Success, true source of all, in promoting religion, 321. Religion, institutions of, not chargeable with politi- Repudiation, wrong impressions respecting, abroad, 330. Repudiation, doctrine of, how viewed in this coun- Revivals of religion, nature of, 196. 202. 207. character of early, 197. at Northampton, 198, 274. peculiar character of, in Kentucky, 201. instances of opposition to, disarmed, 208. pernicious effects of late meetings in, 218. causes of prejudices against, 215. Unitarian objections to, in New-England, 275. Revival preachers, objections to, 216. Rhode Island, early settlement of, 17, 56. Rochester, rapid growth of, 135. Roman Catholic Church, early establishment of, 270. probable influence of, 271. Sabbath associations, 176. 66 comparatively good observance of, in the Sabbath, interest of railroad and steamboat compa- St. Charles city, Virginia, massacre at, 61. 66 66 persecution of the, 73. Scotland, early cause of immigration from, 72, 73. Seamen, efforts to promote the interests of, 172. Sects, grounds of alleged want of harmony among, Sects, evangelical, often commingle, 268. differences between evangelical and unevan- Sects, extent of doctrinal agreement among, 289. 66 66 recent extraordinary book of the, 284, note. " "" early relations between Church and State legislation here, friendly to Christianity, 126. Sunday-schools, mode of conducting, 154. 66 แ character of the colonists of, 69. Temperance societies, 172. Tennent, Rev. Messrs., opinion of Whitefield re- Thanksgiving-day, publicly appointed, 320. Transcendentalism, notice of, 278, 279. |