THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Vol. VI. FOR MDCCCXVIII. " SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE."-ST PAUL. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. Address of Rhode Island Peace Emperor of Russia. Anniversary Celebrations : 247 Evils of an uncandid spirit Attempt to remove misapprehen- Attempt to illustrate an obscure 2017 Fulfilling of Prophecy, &c. 118 Butchery, cruel 318 Gorl a wise and tender Father 114 66 : 66 150 298 42 Good government, way to secure 103 54 - Rev. Professor McKean 181 Hindoo Chinese Gleaner 190 318 232 257 Imprompiu Importance of self knowledge 130 -. Mrs. Abigail Adams 207 40 300 Christians, Inconsistency of Indians, Oneida 350 157 316 119 360 117 273 277 12 119 Report of Massachusetts Peace – Propagating the gospel Society 28 - Peacham - New York Society 95 157 - American Colonization Soc. 194 158 - Massachusetts Bible Society 219 189 - British and Foreign B. S. 284 347 65 71 201 van from Bethlehem, Penn. 378 of 1818 353 223 279 171 Remarks on Matt. xxi, 19 343 Reflections on American Indians 136 258 106 Religious Denominations in Penn. 100 121 307 334 has pleasures peculiar Objections to abolition of Capital Society, Harmonist Piety of Christ to be imitated 55 315 Prejudices against Inoçulation 104 - Protection Progress of light respecting Afri - New-Jersey Bible Prohibitions for the good of man 304 Rhode Island Bible 349 350 312 186 Sabbath Schools . 223 - Complacency in Infants 88 Sketches of M. Luther 289 ib. Transportation of Convicts 94 --- On governing the passions, 282 Wandering Arabs 338 283 Wicked-why live and prosper 228 ib. Word of God preferable, &c. 323 --- Lines for a sampler 284 314 Or Ordinations, Obituary notices, and the list of candidates for the minis- 369 trywill be uniforinly found at the close - Wisdom the principal thing 370 of the several Numbers, 126 THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. No. 1. JANUARY, 1818. Vol. VI. For the Christian Disciple. NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF 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 er. necessary for introducing into ample inost wortliy of the imi. this miscellany the following tation of others. memoir of his life. His friends It was the bappiness of Mr. · take a melancholy pleasure in Preptiss, 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. 287, 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 lie acquired the elements of our privilege to be reckoued 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 crit. his sympathy in all our sorrowsical period of childhood and and joys. It is painful, alas ! early youth in such a school of 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 froin 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 1. Vol. VI.No. 1. . |