"Do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for
if I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."-GAL. i 10.;

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED

AN ADDRESS

TO THE

PEOPLE OF NEW-ENGLAND.

[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832,

in the Office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.]

HYMN.

TO BE SUNG IN CELEBRATING OUR INDEPENDENCE, ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.

HAIL fair Columbia, hail, all hail!
Jehovah's blessings never fail;

He's crowned thy states with liberty,
And bids your restless foes obey.
This mighty God, with outstretch'd arm,
Shielded thy sons in war's alarm;

Gave wisdom, courage, strength, and skill
To accomplish all his righteous will.

The Lord ordain'd for man below,
Justice and equal rights to know,
To do by all, while here below,
As we would have them by us do.
This golden rule our laws confess,
To govern each devoted breast-
Of hero, sage, lawyer, and priest,
From south to north, from west to east.

Religious sects, of every name,

Are free to publish and maintain

Their serious views of heavenly grace,
To save the sons of Adam's race.-
No persecuting tyrant's hand

Can now disturb us in this land,

While justice, temperance, peace and love,
Our works, by faith, may daily prove.

To God, most high, we 'll raise our voice;
On this glad day, let all rejoice,
Recount the blessings God hath given
To mark our way, through life, to heaven.

O, may we so improve our time,
Our civil rights, and rights divine,
With which our God has crown'd us here,
That we might worship in his fear.

Hail fair Columbia's rulers, all,

In Congress, and each state, though small,
Regards the equal rights of man,
And praise the Lord's o'erruling hand.
Shout to the Lord-his praise proclaim-
Give highest honours to his name.
Our independent rights we'll sing,
In honour of our God and king.

HISTORY

OF

DEFECTION IN NEW-ENGLAND.

Rev. and dear Brethren,

I NOTICED the remarks you made in the Christian Advocate and Journal for May 12, 1827, upon an article in the "New-York Observer," accusing the Methodists with defection, because they separated from the Sunday School Union. This was rather a strange application of the word "defection." Also you noticed the use of this word in an article printed in the "Observer" in October, 1826, which was headed "Defection in New-England." In which article they spoke of the Unitarians, and especially the Arminians, as the cause of defection in NewEngland. It seems you could not be positive what our good Presbyterian brethren meant by the word defection in New-England. It would seem that by Arminian, of which they speak, they mean Methodists; because the Presbyterians have been in the habit of calling the Methodists Arminians-and with some propriety they might call them so, because they agree with the Arminians in the five points opposed to Calvinism. Those five points show the difference between Calvinism and Arminianism.

But the Methodists are not in every sense Arminians, although the Presbyterians make no allow ance; therefore you might well suppose they meant the Methodists. But I fancy they did not; and to set this matter at rest, and satisfy your mind re.