and elsewhere, in the " Quarterly Journal of the American Unitarian Association." A brief daily journal has been kept in India; so that of our more than four years' (1473 days') labor here, since the revival of the Mission (17th of June, 1855), there is not a day but has some minute to indicate precisely where and how it was spent. (6.) The regular study of Bengali and Sanscrit by Mr. Dall has filled two or three hours of nearly every day. He has lately read the Gospel of John in Bengali, and those of Mark and Luke in Sanscrit. Some of the South-Indian tongues, particularly Ooria and Tamil, have also been looked into. (7.) The Committee has continued its meetings after divine service on the first Sunday (noon) of each month. (8.) There has been a renewal of the request that Mr. Dall should visit the brethren in Australia. (9.) Written sermons have been continued as usual, and preached once a week to the Mission-room gathering. FURTHER MISSIONARY LABORS IN ILLINOIS. STEAMER "SAM. GATY," ILLINOIS RIVER, DEAR BROTHER, -I am on my return home from a missionary visit to Peoria, Pekin, and Tremont, in Peoria and Tazewell counties, after an absence of two weeks. At Peoria, our friends have been without a minister, as you are aware, since 1858; and their church has been rented to the Presbyterians and Baptists. Recently they have had a visit from Rev. Mr. Ryder of Massachusetts, and were much cheered and encouraged by his presence and labors with them. They are not able, however, to raise a salary sufficient for the support of a minister with a family; and are waiting, hoping that Providence will send them some young man of ability, who will see, in the ultimate prospects of the place, a sufficient inducement to come and labor with them on a small salary for a year or two, until a larger congregation can be gathered, the debts of the church paid off, and a better state of things be brought about. Considering that Peoria is a large and beautiful city, and that we have now a good church edifice and a band of tried and faithful friends there, this is not an unreasonable expectation. Dr. Eliot went to St. Louis, and my predecessor came to Alton, with fewer advantages and aids than such a young man would find at Peoria. Who is there that is willing and able to make some sacrifice at the beginning for the sake of this church? It must be a man of good pulpit abilities, and of affable and friendly manners, who will not suffer in comparison with the other clergymen of the place, several of whom are highly gifted men. On account of the advantages of a cultivated state of society, and the prominent position it affords in a wide field of usefulness, I trust some one will be found to cast his lot in this place, and labor on, with his hopes fixed, not on the immediate, but on the future harvest. I preached a sabbath here in the Universalist Church, and visited a number of Unitarian families. Our friend Mr. Underhill has consolidated and assumed the debts of the church, keeps it in repair, and says it shall never go out of Unitarian hands. My next visit was at Tremont, the former seat of Tazewell County. I preached here on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, in the Baptist Church, to full congregations. Our leading and active friend here is Mr. William Pettes, an intelligent and influential citizen; and he, with others of our faith, have deemed it best to form a union with our Universalist friends, and have engaged an excellent young minister of that denomination (Rev. C. G. Howland) to preach to them one year. They have adopted the name of "THE LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN TREMONT, ILL.,” and are holding their regular sabbath meetings in the Court House. The movement is proving so successful, that they have secured a lot for a church, and are preparing to build a neat and inexpensive edifice the present year. To accomplish this will tax their utmost energies; but they have so much true Christian zeal, that I think they will succeed. As they have not yet procured a suitable hymnbook for their worship, and are hoping for a gift of one from the Unitarian Association, I have ventured to encourage the expectation, that you will make them a present of two or three dozen of the Hymn-book compiled by yourself for the Church of the Disciples, including the Liturgy. This is the book they want; and its introduction by the gift of a couple of dozen will secure the purchase of others as their future needs shall require. I commend their request to the Association, on several grounds. 1. It will help a young and interesting society, in which our faith is deeply infused; and will tend to its preservation, and the attachment of its members to the Unitarian body. 2. It will help to revive our faith, and form of worship, a community where it once existed and had become extinct; and it will bring our Universalist brethren into fellowship and sympathy with us in the use of the worship and hymns common to our churches. 3. It will be a fair offset to the fact, that the new minister belongs to the Universalist communion; and he unites heartily in the desire, that this should be the hymnbook of the new church. 4. Mr. Howland is a young man of high Christian character, of good education, spiritual-minded, unassuming in his manners; and his preaching and daily life among his parishioners are spoken of in the highest terms. He has not yet had much experience, is diffident, and needs our sympathy and encouragement. He loves the Unitarian denomination as he does his own; and it would be entirely proper to place his name, with the name of this new church, in our Year-book, or Register, of the denomination; although he will doubtless maintain his connection and fellowship with the Universalist body, according to his present intentions. My visit at Tremont was at the invitation of Mr. Pettes, and was welcomed by all the society. He assured me that it had given them strength and encouragement. We had an excellent social meeting on Friday evening at the house of Mrs. Richmond, another of our old and tried Unitarian friends. On Sunday, the 15th inst., I preached in the Universalist Church in Pekin to good congregations. The minister (Rev. J. H. Chapin) was with me in the evening. Although I had been announced in the papers and from his pulpit as the Unitarian minister of Alton, I was as kindly received, and listened to, as if I had been exclusively of the Universalist body. In the evening, I preached a distinctively Unitarian discourse, as I did also at Tremont and at Peoria; and had full assurance of the hearty response of the people. Rev. Mr. Chapin is himself a man of Unitarian views, and habits of thought; and his sympathies embrace both denominations. He has also a high spirituality, and has done much to promote the movement in Tremont, which is now just ripening into a success. I was glad to find the few Unitarian families of Pekin attending Mr. Chapin's church, and giving their support to his ministry. It was my privilege to be the guest of some excellent Unitarian friends here, whose friendship and hospitality will be remembered with grateful affection as long as I live. Both from this place and from Tremont, we shall have delegations to the Western Conference at Quincy. When I left home, I took with me a large carpet-bag full of Unitarian books, Channing's Works, Memoirs, Eliot's Discourses, Peabody's Lectures, &c.; and disposed of every one. I have procured also several subscribers to the "Monthly Journal," whose names I send on a separate sheet. Hoping to meet you at the Western Conference in June, I subscribe myself Your brother in Christ, J. G. FORMAN. HAS UNITARIANISM EVER CONVERTED A NATION OR COMMUNITY? THE "New-York Observer" says that it has not. In an article which appeared some months since in that highly conservative journal; a journal in which Orthodox theology and slaveholding Christianity walk lovingly together; a journal which believes, that to love your neighbor as yourself is to make a slave of him, provided he has a black skin; a journal which believes that God prefers the man who sells babies to the man who doubts the Trinity, - we Imet with this remark: "We have yet to hear of the first island redeemed, the first community converted, the first church gathered, the first savage saved, by the teaching of Unitarian theology in any |