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been established in the province of York, and forty-five in the province of Canterbury.

3. The Society at Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, 1698, for promoting Christian knowledge, which erects charity schools in England and Wales, distributing Bibles, Common Prayer-Books, and religious tracts.

4. Incorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, 1701, providing the West India and American colonies with clergymen and schoolmasters. These two respectable Societies are conducted by members of the Church of England.

5. Society in Scotland, 1709, designed to banish ignorance and profaneness from the highlands and Western Islands. This society has a correspondent board in London, before whom an annual sermon is preached in favour of the institution.

6. Missons of the Church of the United (or Moravian) Brethren, established among the heathen 1732, and whose efforts have been particularly successful.

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7. Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among poor, 1750, by giving away Bibles and religious tracts. 8. Naval and Military Bible Society, 1780, instituted for the sole use of the army and navy of Great Britain. 9. Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools throughout the British dominions, 1785. 10. Methodist (or Wesleyan) Missionary Society, 1786, for the conversion of the Negroes in the West Indies.

11. Unitarian Society, 1791, for promoting Christian knowledge, and the practice of virtue, by the distribution of books.

12. Biptist Missionary Society, 1792, in India, under whose auspices the Scriptures have been translated into the Asiatic languages by means of Dr. W. Carey, now resident at Serampore. Besides preaching and translations, a College is in contemplation, for educating native youths, with a view to the Christian ministry This must prove a measure of the greatest utility.

13. Society for the Conversion of the Negroes, 1739, instituted by the late Bishop Porteus in expectation of the abolition of slavery.

14. American India Civilization Society, 1795 founded and supported by the society of Friends.

15. London Missionary Society, 1795, for sending the Gospel to the heathen and other unenlightened nations. Their efforts were first directed to Otaheite and the South Sea Islands.

16. Religious Tract Society, 1799, which has distributed an immense number of tracts throughout almost every part of the world.

17. Church (of England) Missionary Society, 1801, for diffusing the Christian religion in Africa and the East. 18. African Institution, 1806, for the civilization of Africa and the education of native youth.

19. Hibernian Society, 1806, for encouraging Protestant Schools, and for distributing Bibles and Tracts in Ireland.

20. Unitarian Fund, 1806, for promoting Unitarianism by means of popular preaching. Out of this Society arose an association whose object is to promote the religious rights of the Unitarian community. This and the preceding Unitarian Book Society, together with the Fund, are now incorporated into one, under the title of the "British and Foreign Unitarian Association," Walbrook-Buldings, Walbrook.

21. Christian Tract Society,1809, for diffusing knowledge among the poor, supported by Unitarians and other Christians of every description.

22. London Society for the conversion of the Jews, Spitalfields, 1809, with an Episcopal Chapel at Bethnal Green, patronized by the Church of England.

23. Prayer-book and Homily Society, 1811.

24. Irish Evangelical Society for preaching the Gospel, 1814.

24. The Village Itinerant Society, 1803,for propagating the Gospel in the dark villages of England. Attempts are now making to convert the sailors and also the gipsies, both very proper subjects of reformation in civilized society.

26. The Village Itinerant Society, 1796, for preaching the Gospel, and opening Sunday Schools in the villages within ten miles of London.

27. Deputies for the several congregations of Protestant Dissenters, of the three denominations, in and within twelve miles of London, appointed to protect their civil rights, 1730.

28. Protestant Society for the protection of Religious Liberty, 1811. This and the last society have erected a salutary barrier against the inroads of ecclesiastical tyranny.

29. Society of Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools, under the patronage of the King.

30. Ladies Society for the Education and employment of the Female Poor at Chelsea

31. National Education Society, 1812. Dr. A. Bell's system is adopted by this Society, which in the education of the children of the poor, uses the Church Catechism and Common Prayer-Book, along with the Bible, and insists on their attendance upon the Established religion.

32. The British and Foreign School Society (orignally denominated the Royal System of Education, and commonly called the Lancasterian Institution,) for the education of the labouring and manufacturing classes of society of every religious persuasion. Providing for the education of necessitous children, whatever faith their parents may profess, it rears its majestic structure upon the basis of general utility, and ought to be supported by every well-wisher to the community. Its success constitutes the triumph of knowledge over ignorance-of virtue over vice of happiness over misery! The British and Foreign School Society, or Schools for All—a title by which it has been impressively designated, must prove a blessing to dark, ignorant, uninstructed humanity—

Let not a form which bears your Maker's image
Defeat the end of being! Know 'tis yours
In heavenly tints to dip the infant soul-

To raise the new idea-lift it high

Ev'n to Jehovah's throne-the ductile mind,
Pliant as wax, shall wear the mould you give;
Sharp gratitude you've called to life, shall cut
In cyphers deep the now-expanded heart;
And e'en beyond the chambers of the grave
The joyous spirit shall your record bear

To meet your eyes when trembling worlds expire!

Joseph Lancaster, having long left this country, is engaged by Bolivar in the institution of schools throughout South America.

Finally, A Society was established, June 14th, 1816 -for the promotion of permanent and universal peace! This it accomplishes by the distribution of Tracts, exposing through all its ramifications the turpitude of offensive war, which, though decked in the trappings of military glory, is no other than an unprincipled violation of individual rights—an outrageous disruption of all the bonds of society. The distribution has extended to nearly all the United States and the British provinces in America -to Great Britian, France, and Russia in Europe-to India, and the Sandwich Islands. All communications may be forwarded to the respective officers of the Peace Society, No. 3, Great Knight-Rider-Street, Doctors Commons.

O! first of human blessings and supreme,

Fair Peace, how lovely-how delightful thou!
By whose wide tie the kindred sons of men
Like brothers live-in amity combined.

Ineffable are the blessings of peace, whilst the sheding of blood is the abhorrence of humanity. Nor can we refuse to bid God-speed to an institution, whose object is to secure to man "the legacy" of the Saviour of the world, as well as to accelerate the arrival of that halcyon period of universal tranquillity, which is the long and devoutly wished-for consummation of our common Christianity. The term peace is music in the ears of every rational being. It speaks volumes to the individual, and to every well-constituted community. It is the grand panacea suggested by Reason, and confirmed by Revelation, for assuaging the numerous, the complicated, and heart-rending maladies incident to the vast multitudinous family of mankind. Amidst the obstreperous dissonance of contending parties, Peace-Peace! will be the loud and reiterated aspiration of every true Christian throughout each successive age, ceasing only with the destruction of the world.

N.B. In the preceding catalogue, the names of the Officers of the several Religious Societies are suppressed. Being in a state of incessant fluctuation, their enumeration is better suited to annual publications whence may be derived the requisite information, and of which there is no paucity in the Christian world.

SKETCH OF ALL RELIGIONS.

The geat lesson which every sect, and every individual of every
sect, ought to learn from the history of the church is Mod-
eration. Want of genuine Moderation towards those who
differ from us in religious opinions, seems to be the most
unaccountable thing in the world.-WATSON, Bishop of
Llandaff.

THE CHRISTIAN WORLD is divided into denominations, each of which is discriminated by sentiments peculiar to itself. To delineate the nature, point out the foundation, and appreciate the tendency of every individual opinion, would be an endless task. My only design is briefly to enumerate the leading tenets of the several parties which attract our notice, and to make this variety of religious opinions a ground for the exercise of moderation, together with the improvement of other Chriatian graces. The moderation here recommended lies at an equal distance between an indifference to truth and the merciless spirit of uncharitableness. It is a virtue, alas! much talked of— little understood-and less practised.

But before we delineate the tenets of the several parties, the Atheists and Deists shall be mentioned, two descriptions of persons frequently confounded together; and also an outline given of Theophilanthropism and Mahometanism, of Judaism and Christianity. These topics will form an introduction to An Account of the Sects and Denominations of the Religious World.

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