JANUARY NUMBER. PAGE THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCHES AND MR. GARRISON TO THE THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCHES AND MR. GARRISON TO THE METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW. JANUARY, 1881. ART. I.-LIFE AND WORKS OF HAMLINE. Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., late One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By WALTER C. PALMER, M.D. With Introductory Letters by Bishops MORRIS, JANES, and THOMSON. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe. Biography of Rev. Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D. By Rev. F. G. HIBBARD, D.D. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Works of Rev. Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D. Edited by Rev. F. G. HIBBARD, D.D. Vol. I, Sermons. Vol. II, Miscellaneous Writings. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt. THE Christian Church is growing richer in biography from age to age. It is a principle of the divine economy that "the righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." While this is primarily true of the remembrance which God cherishes of his own, however little they may be thought of by an unsympathetic world, yet it also has its application to the Church, which delights to preserve the memory of her holy men and women. The Methodist Episcopal Church has always manifested a commendable interest in properly written memoirs of her deceased Bishops. But, unfortunately, in several instances there has been either a lack of data attainable for the production of such memoirs, or a lack of interest or industry on the part of surviving friends in preparing them. Bishop Asbury, following the example of Mr. Wesley, kept journals of his travels and his ministerial work. Those journals have required but small additions on the part of his biograFOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXXIII.—1 |