The Unitarian review - 1880 Author:Charles Lowe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EDITORS' NOTE-BOOK. The withdrawal of Rev. Dr. Morison from editorial relations with this Review gives us the opportunity to express our sense of profound obl... more »igation for his long and efficient service for rational Christianity. Especially, we feel that the Unitarian body owes him more than it quite knows or appreciates for the labors of his earlier and later years, in connection with our periodical literature. His catholicity of religious spirit, his gentle, genial temper, his critical taste and discriminating literary judgment, his wide and careful scholarship, his strong Christian conviction and earnest devoutness, have been freely devoted to the service of Liberal Christianity, often in unrecognized and unpaid though no less useful and efficient ways. He is one of those who have helped most to preserve among us, the traditions not only, but the very flavor and substance of the culture, the piety, the lofty type of character and life, which belong to our Unitarian inheritance. We are glad to hope that, while he may tind the long- coveted leisure for his chosen work of farther illustrating the life of Christ, this Review and the public will not lose the benefit of frequent contributions from his pen. Serus in caelum redeat. The Unitarian Review hopes to justify its continued existence, and the appeal for wider circulation, which the greatly reduced subscription rate encourages its friends to urge, by the contributions it will endeavor to make to theological culture, Christian morals, and the religious life. It will be as scholarly, thorough, and many-sided in its discussion of these themes as the Liberal Christian scholarship of the country can be induced, by its contributions, to make it; as rich and varied as the spiritual resources that can be commanded to give themselve...« less