BY JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. Being the Lectures delivered by him in Music Hall, Boston, in November and December, 1877, by invitation of the American Unitarian Association, and on the following subjects: 1. Faith and Belief; Essential Belief concerning God; 2. Christ and Christianity; 3. The Bible; 4. The Church and Worship; 5. Christian Experience; 6. The Future Life. Square 16mo. 156 pp. Bound in cloth, 50 cents; in paper, 25 cents. "The American Unitarian Association is finding a ready sale for James Freeman Clarke's lectures on Essentials and Non-Essentials in Religion,' a timely and helpful book to multitudes who feel the disturbance of the present period of transition in religious thought. Dr. Clarke does not hold fast to the spiritual verities: he is held fast by them, and so gives out an inspiration of rest and gladness." - Christian Register, Boston. "It is safe to say that Unitarianism has no more able or persuasive advocate than Dr. Clarke; no one that could draw and hold such an audience as filled Music Hall. His lectures are easy to read, graceful in style, and full of admirable presentations of common truth. There are many passages in these lectures that are specially beautiful and impressive, particularly in the last one upon 'belief in future existence." " Zion's Herald (Methodist), Boston. "They merit a thoughtful reading by all who give a place to reason and heart-wisdom both, in their religious reflections." - Golden Rule (Rev. W. H. H. Murray's paper), Boston. "The deep humanity, the broad spirit of toleration, the plain, practical, common sense, and manly independence that distinguish all of Mr. Clarke's utterances are nowhere more clearly and more delightfully manifested than in this book which is, throughout, the work of an earnest thinker thoroughly in sympathy with the age in which he lives. This little volume may be safely taken as a guide, not only in the conduct of man before his Maker, but in the relations of man to man, teaching, as it does, the largest reverence for all that is holy, and the tenderest love and charity towards all that is human." Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston. "Liberal minds in all denominations will, we suspect, find in this work valuable suggestions about the underlying principles of Christian faith, which are gradually working to cause the different sects to at least respect each other, if not, as some think, actually breaking down the barriers between them.” Gazette, Worcester, Mass. "They form very worthy and thoughtful contributions to religious literature, and every Christian of whatever denomination-can read them with pleasure and profit. Mr. Clarke needs no introduction to thoughtful readers upon religious and moral subjects, nor do his sermons need any description or any praise to recommend them. No one who read these discourses, as reported in the Boston Advertiser,' needs to be told that they are worth preservation, or to be advised to buy them now that they have been gathered into a volume.' -Gazette, Salem, Mass. J AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, 7 TREMONT PLACE, BOSTON, Mass. 17 THE WORK AND WANTS OF THE UNITARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, REV. HENRY G. SPAULDING. Boston: 7 TREMONT PLACE. THE UNITARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. Instituted in 1827; reorganized in 1854. The object of this Society, as expressed in its Constitution, is "to promote the cause of Sunday-schools, wherever the Providence of God may open a way, in whatever manner he may direct, and by whatever means he may put into its hands." The Dayspring, published by this Society, is issued monthly, and has a circulation of 12,000 copies. The Society also publishes a large number of text-books for use in our Sunday-schools. The SundaySchool Lessons for 1883-84 consist of the successive chapters of a new Life of Jesus for children, by Rev. Howard N. Brown. They are issued in monthly numbers (four chapters in each number), with illustrations, references, and questions. The payment of fifty cents annually constitutes a person a member of this Society, so long as it is paid; and a subscription of ten dollars at any one time, a member for life. The Society holds a special meeting in Boston in Anniversary Week, and has its Annual Meeting, for business, election of officers, and discussion of Sunday-school work, on the third Thursday of October. BOARD OF MANAGERS FOR 1883-84. Rev. Edward A. Horton, Boston, Mass., Richard C. Humphreys, Boston (Dorchester), Mass.; and Rev. John B. Green, Louisville, Ky., Rev. Henry G. Spaulding, Newton, Mass., J. Mason Everett, Canton, Mass., Rev. George H. Young, Miss Elizabeth P. Channing, President. Vice-Presidents. Secretary. Treasurer. Boston, Mass. Milton, Mass. Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, Rev. William H. Lyon, Rev. Christopher R. Eliot, Boston, Mass. Boston (Roxbury), Mass Boston (Dorchester), Mass. The Secretary's office, salesroom of the Society, and publication office of the Dayspring, are at the rooms of the American Unitarian Association, 7 Tremont Place, Boston; and are open daily from 9 A.M. till 5 P.M. THE UNITARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. PRESENTED OCT. 18, 1883. The work of the year has been interrupted by the resignation of Rev. George F. Piper from the office of secretary of the society, which he had faithfully filled for nearly seven years. The present secretary entered upon his duties on the first of May, and has found the work of the half-year of a most engrossing nature. Fortunately for the success of its various enterprises, the society has had the invaluable services of its competent and experienced office-clerk, who is at her post from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. of every working-day of the twelve months; and the secretary has been still further assisted by the constant "labors of love" of its Board of Managers. The directors of the Sunday School Society have been no idle figure-heads, but pilots and officers, inspecting, regulating, steering. Their meetings for the past six months have been frequent and well attended, characterized by full reports of work accomplished and lively discussions of plans proposed. The committee on the manuals in particular have been called upon to perform very arduous and exacting labors in examining and editing the series of text-books now in course of publication. A society so faithfully served by all its agents deserves well of its constituency. To both its paid and its unpaid servants, it is due that the scope and variety of its labors, the multiplied demands which are made upon it for counsel and aid in all matters that pertain to the religious education of the young, should be clearly understood; and its efforts in behalf of so noble a cause gratefully recognized and gener ously seconded by every church and every Sunday-school belonging to the denomination. But the fact stares us in the face, and we gain nothing by ignoring it, that, of all our denominational and allied missionary agencies, the Unitarian Sunday School Society is the one the support of which is too frequently neglected by too many of those for whom it labors. It has not to-day and never has had a single dollar of invested funds; while schools and colleges, home missions and foreign missions and benevolent institutions of every kind, are continually receiving from our generous churches and large-hearted laymen handsome endowments and liberal legacies. Our only sources of income are the spasmodic donations of an inconstant number of churches, a few annual contributions from individual donors, and the small profits which accrue from the sale of our merchandise. Look for a moment at the generous doings of our Unitarian people in some other directions. Two hundred Unitarian churches contributed last year over $40,000 to the American Unitarian Association for its general missionary work, not to mention $20,000 more given to the Association for specific objects, and the noble donations from many of the same churches to the new building fund. To the Children's Mission to the Children of the Destitute in Boston, one of the best local charities of the city, eighty-two Unitarian churches and Sunday-schools gave the past year over $2,500. The Warren Street Chapel, in Boston, a local mission of limited range, received during the same period $3,000 from Unitarian churches and liberal laymen. The donations to the Unitarian Sunday School Society for the year ending Oct. 1, 1883, are as follows: Contributions from sixty-four churches and Sunday-schools, Legacy of Lewis G. Pray, $1,928 477 500 This legacy of Mr. Pray, who has been for nearly twenty years a most faithful member of the Board of Managers of |