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Cultured Free Thought.

The Index Association,

With offices at 142 St. Clair Street, Toledo, O., and 22 Vesey Street, New York City, has been organized with a Capital Stock of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, for the purpose of publishing Tracts, Books, and

The Index,

A Weekly Paper devoted to Free and Rational Religion.

It is the object of The Index to give public utterance to the boldest, most cultivated, and best matured thought of the age on all religions questions. The Index is edited by Francis E. Abbot, assisted by Abram W. Stevens, with the following list of Editorial Contributors:—

O. B. Frothlngham, of New York City.

Thomas W. Higginson, of Newport, R. I.

William J. Potter, of New Bedford, Mass.

Richard P. Hallowell, of Boston, Mass.

William H. Spencer, of Haverhill, Mass.

Mrs. E. D. Cheney, of Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Rev. Charles Voysey, of London, England.

Prof. Francis W. Newman, of Weston super Mare, Eng.

Rev. Moncure D. Conway, of London, England.

Asa K. Butts is Advertising and General Agent for the Index Association. All letters to him on business matters should be addressed—"The Index, Drawer 38, Toledo, Ohio."

Every Liberal should subscribe for The Index, as the best popular exponent of Religious Liberalism.

Every Christian minister and every thinking church-member should subscribe for it, as the clearest, most candid, and most scholarly expositor of the differences between Free Thought and Evangelical Christianity, and as the best means of becoming well informed of the arguments which the Church will have to meet in the future.

Almost every number contains a discourse or leading article which alone is worth the price of one year's subscription.

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The Index,

Drawer 38, Toledo, Ohio.