We may love one, and without injury to one's self, who may, nevertheless, be injured incurably by it: through peculiar circumstances, our influence may be the very worst. And how hard it is to see this! how our self-love hides or glosses over the terrible fact! How can we say, "My love will hurt him: I must withdraw all outward manifestation of it"?'

Not till we rise so high as to suffer for his injury shall we be able to make this great sacrifice, which will at last expand and grow into a Christ-like love.

And as the sublime form of our Lord smiles on us, through all these earthly claims and sympathies, with ineffable love and joy, may we not dare to believe that the sacred shadow of his cross has fallen upon us? and may we not hope to be strengthened and enlightened as his instruments of wide-spread good, and at last, perhaps, expect to know what happiness, that deserves to be such, really is?

AN INCIDENT IN LONDON. CHURCH HOSPI

TALITY.

DEAR SIR, — I find, in your "Monthly Journal" of February, President Hill's account of his early experiences in seeking a seat at a Boston Unitarian church.

Having already been interested, on a similar account, in behalf of those abroad, it may be well to state the arrangements I found there.

One Sunday in London, our friend Mr. Channing was to preach at a church remote from us. The name as well as the person were widely attractive; and we were glad to answer several invitations to hear him, at the small expense of a very long walk.

Using, however, no names at the door, we were at once recalled 'from the floor of the church by the terrified attendant, who would not compromise himself by promising us better success anywhere. Unusually fatigued, we paused, before ascending to the galleries, quite long enough for our position to be thoroughly understood by many of the congregation. All were far too nice to overstep that English gaucherie, which, once broken down, yields to such generous liberty.

To the gallery, then, despite our mute appeal, we perforce ascended, and became comparatively comfortable in an empty pew. Just before the opening of the services, a lady entered, alone, the further extremity of the long pew in which we occupied two seats. She maintained a moment's uneasy silence; then gently addressed us:

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Really, I believe this is not a public seat."

"Can you tell us, madam, where we may sit?" I hinted here. "We have already been turned from the floor." "Possibly, near the organ?" she questioned rather than replied, with a glance at a long array of empty benches.

On the bare forms in front of the organ, and facing the clergyman, we had certainly no cause of regret, save the nervous sensation of intrusion; which, however unreasonable, it is often difficult entirely to control.

Some weeks later, during a conversation with Lady a chance allusion to my own Unitarianism produced an instant declaration of hers. I found, to my mortification, that it had been possible for me to form a strong attachment, without a single expression to evince a faith so unusual in London. Her ladyship spoke with great warmth; and said, that, among her friends, she was quite alone in this belief. She added, that her husband had kindly taken her from a great distance expressly to hear Mr. Channing. They were unable to gain admittance; and, to her most heavy disappointment, were obliged to drive from the door.

Perhaps you will allow me to pursue the subject with a respectful inquiry. Are the minor virtues so inefficient in our pilgrimage, that Christian flocks so widely scattered appear to be ignorant of their plainest requisitions? How may we be led to the large deductions which might be drawn from the " 'cup of cold water"?

And surely, in these cases, the clergy themselves are partly responsible for the customs of the church, where every door should be open to him who, hearing, will come, or to him who cometh that he may hear. I know to whom I address myself, and am confident of the kind construction which will be used in my behalf.

K. M.

INTELLIGENCE

MR. BENJAMIN H. BAILEY was ordained as pastor of the Society in Dedham, Mass., on Thursday, March 14. The introductory prayer was offered by Rev. J. H. Morison, D.D., of Milton; Rev T. B. Forbush, of Northborough, read selections from the Scriptures; the sermon was preached by Rev. Convers Francis, D.D., of Cambridge; Rev. Alvan Lamson, D.D., the former pastor, offered the ordaining prayer; Rev. Joseph Allen, D.D., of Northborough, gave the charge; Rev. John D. Wells, of Quincy, the right hand of fellowship; Rev. George E. Ellis, D.D., of Charlestown, the address to the people; and the concluding prayer was offered by Rev. Calvin S. Locke, of West Dedham.

MR. HENRY STONE, a graduate of the Cambridge Divinity School in the class of 1860, was ordained as pastor of the Society in Fond-du-Lac, Wis., on Tuesday, Feb. 26. A full account of the services on this occasion will be found in the letter of our correspondent "Milwaukee," on another page.

REV. THOMAS DAWES, having resigned his office as pastor of the Hawes-Place Society, South Boston, closes his labors on the last Sunday in March.

THE ordination of Mr. William H. Savary, as pastor of the Society at West Newton, Mass., will take place on Wednesday evening, April 10. Rev. O. B. Frothingham, of New York, will preach the sermon.

REV. EDWARD C. Town has accepted a call to become the pastor of the Society in Medford, Mass. Mr. Town closed his engagement at South Braintree, which was for one year, on the last Sunday of March; having declined an urgent invitation to renew it.

THE Unitarian Society in Charleston, S.C., has advertised for a pastor. The pulpit, temporarily supplied at present, will be vacant on the third Sunday in April. Applicants are requested to address "the Chairman of Wardens of Unitarian Church, Charleston, S.C., Key Box 16."

REV. JOSEPH H. PHIPPS, of East Bridgewater, has received and accepted a call from the Society in Kingston, Mass., to become their pastor..

REV. D. H. RANNEY has resigned the pastorate of the Society in Bernardston, Mass. ; and has been invited to supply the pulpit' of the Society in Walpole, N.H., for eight months, commencing with the first Sunday in April.

REV. C. H. A. DALL expected to leave Calcutta for this country the last of February. He will come by the way of England, where he will spend several weeks, and will reach Boston about the 1st of June. He visits America on a vacation, by the advice of his physician; having become much prostrated by his severe and long-continued labors in a tropical climate.

A LETTER from California, in the "Christian Inquirer” of March 23, gives the following information :

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"I would state that Mr. King yesterday (Feb. 7) remarked in an earnest sermon, that, if the debt of the church should be paid by the 1st of May, he was willing to say that he would remain another year, nor even to limit his time to that one year. As the debt will be paid, please therefore consider our distinguished brother as renewing his engagement with us.”

AT a monthly meeting of the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, held just before Mr. Gangooly

left London on his return to India, the following resolution was unanimously passed by a full Committee: —

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Resolved, That this Committee cannot allow their Hindoo brother, JOGUTH CHUNDER GANGOOLY, to leave England without recognizing the value of his labors in this country in exciting an interest in the Indian Mission; that they would assure him of their sympathy and of their best wishes for his welfare, and pray that God may enable him to be faithful in the solemn and important work to which he has been set apart by their brethren in America."

Mr. Gangooly was then introduced to the Committee, when the above resolution was read to him; and the chairman, George Long, Esq., in a few very appropriate words, took leave of Mr. Gangooly, and expressed the cordial wishes of all present for his future usefulness and success.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED

Since our last Notice.

Christian Examiner, March, 1861.

The last number of the "Christian Examiner" contains several articles to which we would call attention. One is upon the recent book of Max Müller upon Vedic literature. This article is by Prof. Whitney of Yale College, who is not only the first Sanscrit scholar of America, but one of the first in the world. Prof. Whitney has been some years engaged, in connection with one of the most eminent German scholars, in editing one of the Vedas in the original text. This article, therefore, deserves the best attention from all students who desire to make themselves acquainted with the latest results of Vedic studies.

Another important article in this number is on the relation of reason and faith, occasioned by a notice of Bunsen and his works. It contains the substance of Dr. Hedge's sermon at New Bedford last October. Regarding the article, therefore, as a sermon, no less than as an essay, we must express the opinion, that it alone would place the writer at the very head of his profession. There is no one else whom we know, in our own denomination or in any other, who could write a discourse, which, in all the qualities of profound thought and happy expressions, would bear comparion with this. In its immediate