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the Literary and Philosophical Society, and the Chetham Society. 

 At a later date he published an admirable " Story of Religion 

 in England," and a series of articles in the Atlantic Monthly, in 

 which he argued for more historical reality than recent critics 

 have been inclined to allow. After eleven years of active 

 ministerial service at Strangeways, he accepted an invitation to 

 America, and early in 1876 became minister of the Church of 

 the Messiah in Chicago. In six years he removed to Boston, 

 as minister of the Arlington Street Church, where he remained 

 until the autumn of 1891. It was during his residence at 

 Boston that he was elected on November 14th, 1882, a corre- 

 sponding member of this Society. In America he gained a posi- 

 tion of great influence and honour among the Unitarian ministers 

 of that continent. He received his degree of D.D. from Harvard 

 University in 189T, after preaching a course of sermons at that 

 seat of learning. On returning to England he succeeded 

 Dr. Sadler at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, retiring through 

 ill-health in 1901, having completed fifty years of ministerial 

 service. The occasion was taken by a number of friends in 

 England and America to make a personal gift to him of over 

 ^3,200, with warm expressions of gratitude and affection. His 

 life was one of great happiness and abundant activity, spent in 

 fearless advocacy of social justice and freedom of religious 

 thought. Besides the writings mentioned above he published 

 several volumes of addresses, which reflect his healthy, cheery, 

 and inspiring mind. He died at Hampstead on December 

 20th, 1903, and was interred at Hale Chapel, Cheshire. His 

 wife died in 1891. She was Hannah, daughter of Mr. William 

 Hankinson, of Hale, and was married to Brooke Herford in 

 1852. C. W. S. 



Dr. Auguste Francois Le Jolis (born at Cherbourg 1st 

 December, 1823, died at Cherbourg, 20th August, 1904) was 

 a corresponding member of our Society for the long span of 45 

 years, having been elected to that position on the 25th January, 

 1859. As a British vice-consul, judge, president of a chamber of 



