THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Vol. VI. FOR MDCCCXVIII, SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE."-ST PAUL. CONTEXTS OF VOLUME VI, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. 64 31 Address of Rhode Island Peace Emperor of Russia Anniversary Celebrations 247 Evils of an uncandid spirit 79 Annual Meetings 46 Attempt to remove misapprehen- Asylum for Deaf and Dumb 257 Facts Reported Attempt to illustrate an obscure 287 Fulfilling of Prophecy, &c. 118 Butchery, cruel 318 Gol a wise and tender Father 6 Character of Rev. T. Prentiss 1 150 298 42 Good government, way to secure 103 54 Rev. Professor McKean 181 Hindoo Chinese Gleaner 190 318 232 117 Importance of self knowledge 130 -. Mrs. Abigail Adams 207 273 300 Christians, Inconsistency of 16 Indians, Oneida 350 157 111 316 119 40 60 jb. Lessons useful, &c. 119 Report of Massachusetts Peace Letter from a Calmuck Prince 61 Society. 62 - Propagating the gospel Society 28 157 American Colonization Soc. 194 158 Massachusetts Bible Society 219 Mr. Morrison 189 British and Foreign B. S. 284 Plymouth and Norfolk B. S. 345 - one Clergyman to another 291 Review of Warner's Sermon 33 from Bethlehem, Penn. 378 of 1818 353 223 Lewchews 171 Remarks on Matt. xxi. 19 343 Reflections on American Indians 136 258 106 Religious Denominations in Penn. 100 121 Narratives Moral and Religious 19 useful in affliction 334 337 277 Society, Harmonist 12 59 86 Piety of Christ to be imitated 55 Prayer of Tillotson 349 126 261 Progress of light respecting Afri- Prohibitions for the good of man 304 Rhode Island Bible Portland Female Charitable Soc. 383 American Education Portsmouth Peace Society ib. state of in Virginia 312 244 Prospectus of an important work 380 Speech of an Indian Chief - self examination 223 Complacency in Infants 88 289 Sketches of M. Luther 155 ib. Transportation of Convicts 94 133 256 338 283 Wicked-why live and prosper 228 Death of a Child ib. Word of God preferable, &c. 323 Lines for a sampler 284 314 0 Ordinations, Obituary notices, Marco the African 344 and the list of candidates for the minis- New-Year Eve 369 trywill be uniforınly found at the close Wisdom the principal thing 370 of the several Numbers, - cans NOTICE OF THE LIFE CHARAOTER OF AND REV. THOMAS PRENTISS. We trust that the impreg- to embody the recollections, sions made upon the public which are now so vivid, of his mind by the death of Mr. Pren- amiable and excellent character, tiss were not of so transient a not only as a just tribute to his kind, as to render an apology memory, but as affording an ex. necessary for introdueing into ample inostwortliy of the imithis miscellany the following tation of others. memoir of his life. His friends It was the bappiness of Mr. take a melancholy pleasure in Prentiss, to spend the first years recalling the memory of one, of his life in a situation most who was associated with them favourable for the growth of in many interesting scenes. virtuous principles and good Some of them remember the habits. His father, the Rev. years of his childhood and Dr. P. of whom a brief notice youth, and had opportunity to was given in the second volume witness the gradual develop- of the Christian Disciple, page ·ment of those intellectual pow. 297, was universally esteemed ers and moral qualities, which a man of eminent piety and made him the object of so many worth. Under his instructions, affections and hopes. It was he acquired the elements of our privilege to be reckoned in learning, and the principles of the number of his earliest religion. friends. We saw him in every It was no common privilege stage of his progress, and had to spend the important and crithis sympathy in all our sorrows ical period of childhood and and joys. It is painful, alas ! early youth in such a school of i to reflect that the friend, en.. virtue, and he has often exdeared by so long an intimacy, pressed to me his deep sense of is removed from our side, and obligation to his beloved and that we are left to pursue our revered father. Indeed his fil. journey alone. iai piety was one of the distin. But we must not indulge our gnishing traits of his character : privale sorrows. It is our wish. to his parents be was every Vol. VI. No. 1. |