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...Gordon '81, an Overseer and Preacher to the University, has written the following comment on the new Theological Review...
...first number of the Harvard Theological Review was issued last week, and the CRIMSON will doubtless take pleasure in according to the Review a hearty welcome. This Review has been partially endowed by the bequest of the late Miss Mildred Everett, made in order to carry out a plan suggested by her father, Charles Carrol Everett, deeply respected and widely influential as scholar and teacher in Harvard University for more than thirty years. In advance of his generation, and through his wide survey of the spiritual life of mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest...
...Harvard Theological Review comes, we may be sure, as the servant of the cause dear to Professor Everett. Professors G. F. Moore, W. W. Fenn, and J. H. Ropes, are the Editorial Committee. They have the hearty support of their colleagues in the Faculty of the Divinity School, and it may be added, that they have the good wishes of all serious-minded men, in their endeavor to make this Review the servant of religion pure, catholic, and universal...
...first issue promises well, from the initial article by Professor Peabody on 'The Call to Theology,' to the last on 'The Divine Providence by Dr. C. F. Dole. As one might expect from a glance at the names of the several contributors, the pages of the Review are marked by able and serious discussion of questions of present and pressing moment...
...welcome accorded to the Review, two motives may be expected to exert their influence. The first is the interest excited by suspicion. We have heard of the Presbyterian Elder who usually slept during the sermon when his own minister was the preacher, but who, when a stranger occupied the pulpit, remained wide awake and keenly alert. He gave as his reason for this change of attitude, his assurance of the soundness of his minister, and his conviction that when a stranger came, he needed watching. There are many dormant minds to whom this Review with its new and unknown character...