nation, made by the Compiler on the 11th of April, 1800, to undertake the compilation when endued with the necessary mental abilities, and with the requisite degree of temporal prosperity.

1. The Shepherd under the head of "The Consummation," admits that "A Universal Church" is the consummation to which society must come, and to which it is fast approaching by the increasing disrespect which the public mind is evincing for every ostentatious or outward display of what has hitherto been called religion.-The Shepherd, Sth August, 1835, No. 50.

The Compiler, under the signature of "The Shepherd's Crook," (an emblem which "The Shepherd" had previously acknowledged) in the same number, asserted that in the compilation of " the universal church," and in contemplation of religious and civil union," the writer acknow ledged the universality of the former, and that upwards of a quarter of a century had not shaken his conviction of the principles being applicable to the latter.

That The universal church" of nature, from its com. mencement, acknowledged, a primitive and general principle operating in two derivative or particular ones, corresponding with the "generic and specific" principles of The New Moral World," and with the pastoral universality and twofold or duplex distinction in that most comprehensive union. Admitting that the doubt as to the time for political universality may be well founded; but that the time will come," and that "both church and state are hastening rapidly towards it," that the general, generic, or universal principle, though applicable to politics, may not excite immediate interest; yet that the duplex tendency seemed then in full operation, and referred to Aibion, or the western extremity of progression, as not only the most disirable locality for commencement, but

for completion. The Voice of the People" is subse quently introduced into this article.

As the words Catholic and universal have both one meaning," the natural distinction became necessary in "The Universal Church of Nature."-The Shepherd, No. 27, p. 209.

The metaphorical crook is in the farewell to the Shepherd defined as "Truth."-22nd August, 1835.

The Rev. Editor of "The Shepherd," in the former number, had given an instance of one of the finest portraits from an article of Church Reform in the then last number of the London Review," and admits that "It draws a chaste and richly coloured picture of a universal church, constituted upon the principles of social morality," but as the article is actually national it will more immediately apply to "The Albion System." And the church is only negative.

18th September, 1836.

The word universal expresses all the improvements which modern Reformers insist upon introducing into the two major departments of politics and ecclesiastics. Bigotry and exclusiveness will oppose the movement, but the spirit of the age is the spirit of God and of nature, which can never be defeated."-The Weekly Herald, No. 1.

24th September, 1836.

Universality will be a watch-word for the "Weekly Herald." It will be the compass to direct both the writer and the reader; it will be the measuring rod to determine the amount of truth and justice which its doctrines contain, and its principles insist upon. This measuring rod of universality will be applied both to the political and religious department of legislation. The "Weekly Herald" will, therefore, strike firm and sure at every species of sectarian ascendency or dictation. It

will claim an inheritance for all parties and an equal chance for all, that the human mind may be left at liberty to prosecute the search of truth, and the search of happiness, which is the great, the noble, and sublime employment of the human intellect. The New Moral World, or Millen nium, No. 100.

23rd October, 1836.

"Religion of the Universe."The spirit of this work we very much admire. It take universality as its basis, and represents the progress of the human mind as moving through the successive ordeals or stages of contracted creeds towards the final resting place, a Universal Faith."- The Weekly Herald,

No. 6.

6. What is Truth? was once asked, but the interrogator went aw ay without the answer, and the inquiry remains to this day, just where it was." (Argus.) Such is the state of Truth as derived from commonly acknowledged Revelation.

7. Theological Truth, on our basis, appears too variegated and extensive to admit of both a particular and compressed definition; and this remark applies, in a degree, to universal objects of inquiry. Thus, "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." (Romans xiv. 5.) "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”—(1 Thessalonians v. 21.) "Rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy ii. 15.) "That they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.”— (2 Timothy, 14.) "But when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth."-(John xvi. 13.) 16. For the unity of the five senses. See The Shepherd, p. 79.

The bipolar departments, seem naturally distinguish

able in the union.

Thus, feeling having been acknowledged as the universal sense, and distinguishable as unintellectual and intellectual.

Taste and smelling, may be farther distinguished as the unintellectual, and seeing and hearing as the intellectual

senses.

19. These wait all upon Thee: that thou mayst give them their meat in due season; that Thou giveth them, they gather: Thou openeth thine hand they are filled with good.-(Psalm civ. 27, 28.)

30.

Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."-(James iv. 17.)

"Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish." (Psalm xlix. 20.)

"I said, in mine heart, concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"(Ecclesiastes iii. 18 to 21.)

31. "Let all things be done decently and in order.”(1 Corinthians xiv. 40.)

"Lo! this only have I found, that God has made man upright, but they have found many inventions."-(Ecclesiastes vii. 29.)

"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof."—(Ibid, 8.)

35. These are our universal bipolar divisions.

36. The unknown God, whom therefore ye ignorantly

worship, him declare I unto you: God that made the world and all things therein."-(Acts xvii. 23, 24.)

"For there is no power but of God, the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God."(Romans xiii. 1, 2.)

37. “The goodness of God endureth continually.”— (Psalm iii. 1.)

39. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.”—(1 Corinthians xii. 6.)

"But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”—(1 Corinthins xii. 11.)

“How manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches."—(Psalm civ.24)

“ The excellency of knowledge is that Wisdom giveth life to them that have it."-(Ecclesiastes vii. 12.)

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? seeing that it is hid from the eyes of all living. God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.-(See Job xxviii. from 1 to 21.)

“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth: when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: when He established