he employed to express
his meaning, rather than in the doctrine itself. While the Nestorians
believe that Christ had _two natures_ and _two persons_, they say "that
these natures and persons are so closely and intimately united that they
have but one _aspect_." "Now, the word _barsopa_, by which they express
this _aspect_, is precisely of the same signification with the Greek word
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, which signifies _a person_; and hence it is evident that they
attached to the word _aspect_ the same idea that we attach to the word
_person_, and that they understood, by the word _person_, precisely what
we understand by the term _nature_."

The Nestorians, of all the Christian churches of the East, have been the
most careful and successful in avoiding a multitude of superstitious
opinions and practices, which have infected the Romish and many Eastern
churches.

Our readers are referred to an interesting volume recently published by
Asahel Grant, M. D., in which is contained strong evidence that the
Nestorians and the "Lost Tribes" are one people.

HIGH-CHURCHMEN.

A term first given to the Nonjurors, who refused to acknowledge William
III. as their lawful king, and who had very proud notions of church power;
but it is now commonly used in a more extensive signification, and is
applied to all those who, though far from being Nonjurors, yet form high
conceptions of the authority and jurisdiction of the church.

ANCIENT AMERICAN COVENANT OR CONFESSION OF FAITH.

_Copy of the first Covenant, or Confession of Faith, of the First Church
in Salem, Massachusetts._

The first ordination to the pastoral office, and the first complete
organization and erection of a Protestant church, in North America, took
place in that town, in the year 1629.

The First Covenant, Or Confession Of Faith, Of The First Church In
Salem.

"We covenant with our Lord, and one with another, and we do bind
ourselves, in the presence of God, to walk together in all his
ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself unto us in his
blessed word of truth; and do explicitly, in the name and fear of
God, profess and protest to walk as followeth, through the power
and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ:--