1860-1867 THE MONTHLY JOURNAL. Rare Unitarian Journal - Slavery, Women's Rights, Civil War, Reconstruction, &c.

A very scarce somewhat scattered quasi-run of a very rare periodical on the market. The Monthly Journal was the publication of the American Unitarian Association. It contains theological, missional, and cultural content often in long format with articles extending to over 20 pages at times. 

Excellent content related to abolition, slavery, the Civil War, women's rights, critiques of orthodoxy, pacifism, Civil War chaplains as missionaries, reconstruction, freedmen, etc., 

Not a single example on the market of any of the five volumes.

Clarke, James Freeman [ed.]. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association. Boston. 1860-1867. 

VOLUME FIRST. Volumes I & II for 1860 and 1861 bound in a single volume, lacking #8 in Volume I and #'s 6, 8, and 9 in Volume II.

Contents for 1860: The Baptismal Formula and its Meaning; The Transylvania Unitarians; Mr. Dall and the Hindoo Mission at Calcutta [Series]; Quarterly Report of the General Secretary of the A. U. A.; Review of True Womanhood by John Neal; The Way to Find God by C. A. Bartol; The Bibliotheca Sacra Napping; Is it Safer to Believe too Much than to Believe too Little?' Biography of Horace Mann by Joseph H. Allen [Lengthy on Suffragist, Women's Rights Advocate, Abolitionist, etc.]; Life in the Soul in the Baptismal Formula; Professor Huntington's Argument for the Trinity; Review of Woman's Right to Labor; or Low Wages and Hard Work by Caroline H. Dall; A Few Characteristics of Able Ministers; The Necessity of Faith; Missionary Labors in Illinois and Indiana [to James Freeman Clarke from J. G. Forman]; A Stray Leaf from the Book of Kings; An Extract from Dr. Huntington's Tract; The Elect Lady - A Sermon on Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen; Report of the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of the American Unitarian Association; A Letter from Thomas Starr King; A Sermon on the Return of Joguth Chunder Gangooly - the Brahmin Convert and Indian Evangelist; On the Circulation of Tracts; Letter from Brother Collyer of Chicago; The Rock of Ages; Late Notices of Theodore Parker; Notes on Passages of the New Testament; Missionary Matters in Central New York; Dr. Nehemiah Adams the Heaviest Burden Congregationalism has to Bear; Review of Henry Ward Beecher's Lectures on the Trinity; Review of The Blessing s of Abolition [Slavery]; etc.

Contents for 1861: The Doctrine of Predestination; Hints to Congregations and to Singers on Church Music; A Hard Working Minister; Letter from Rev. Starr King; Letter from William Henry Channing; Letters from Charles Cress of the India Mission [Series]; Forty Questions about the Civil War and How to Answer Them [Fascinating]; Extracts from a Tract on Emancipation by Wm. E. Channing Published in 1840 [Slavery]; Christ and His Antichrists by James Freeman Clarke [series]; The Object of the Unitarian Association; Life of Dr. Samuel G. Howe by Horace Mann; The Puritan Spirit; The Pre-Existence of Christ; On Unitarian Chaplains for the Union Army [Civil War]; etc. 

VOLUME SECOND. Volumes IV & V for 1863 and 1864 bound in a single volume, lacking #'s 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 12 in Volume IV and #'s 1, 2, 4, 8, and 11 in Volume V.

Contents for 1863: Essential Truths and Formal Errors of Orthodoxy [Conversion and Regeneration]; The Ministers We Want; Extracts from a Journal Kept by a Teacher of Contrabands at Port Royal; Readings for the Soldiers [Civil War]; Phases of American Liberal Theology; Liberal Christianity in the Most Benighted Country in Europe [Italy]; The Atonement; Men and Things in Washington; Farewell Meeting for Mr. Dall [Missionary to Calcutta]; Mr. Winkley's Report on the Madras Mission; Experiences of a Chaplain in New Orleans [Civil War; Slavery]; Eternal Punishment; Home Evangelization; The Broach-Church Interpretation of the Doctrine of the Trinity; Kinglake's Invasion of Crimea; Review of John Stuart Mill on Liberty; Review of The War to End only when the Rebellion Ceases by H. W. Bellows; Review of Chaplain Fuller - Army Chaplain; All True Life a Warfare by Richard Pike; Notes on the Inspiration of the Bible; A Memorial by John Greenleaf Whittier [the first appearance]; The Westminster Review's Account of the Origin of Christianity; The Army Tracts [Civil War]; The Capture and Captivity of Our Army Missionary Chaplain - Rev. William G. Scandlin [Publication of his Journal]; Optimism - An Essay by James Freeman Clarke; Report of the Autumnal Convention [Unusually extensive with resolutions regarding abolitionism, etc.]; Our Army Chaplains; etc. 

Contents for 1864: Are We to have any more Sunday Schools?; The Ministers We Do Not Want; The Joys of Faith; What Can a Church do for the Young? Nahor Augustus Staples; Review of the Doctrine of the Trinity Defended by John H. Eagar; On the Union of Churches by James Freeman Clarke; The Spirit of Toleration in a Catholic Country; Tender Trusty and True - A Sermon by Robert Collyer; Thomas Starr King [Poem] by John Greenleaf Whittier [first appearance]; The Spirit of Orthodoxy; Review of the Youth's History of the Rebellion from the Bombardment of Fort Sumter to the Capture of Roanoke Island; Review of the Slave-Dealer's Daughter by Stephen G. Bullfinch; This Life and the Next by Thomas Starr King; Religious Performances; Orthodox Assurance; Canning and Renan; Ministers for the West; Letters from the India Mission; Army Missions and Publications [Civil War, Chaplains]; A Profession of Christian Faith by Athanase Coquerel; Modern Ecclesiasticism in the Congregational Churches; Women Voting in the Church; Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman; The Authority of the Pulpit by John A. Buckingham; The Veil Partly Lifted; Catherine Beecher on Religious Training; Philosophy as Absolute Science; Our Work in the Army; God's Plain Requirements; etc.

VOLUME THIRD. Volumes 6 for 1865 bound in a single volume, lacking #'s 2, and 5.

Contents for 1865: Report on Army Work by Charles Lowe [Chaplains, Civil War]; Miss Martineau's History of the Peace; Terrestrial and Celestial Glory Illustrated in the Career of Edward Everett by James Freeman Clarke; Space and Time; Address before the Ministerial Union by James Freeman Clarke; Review of Nature and the Supernatural by Horace Bushnell; A Statement and Illustration of Doctrine by Rufus P. Stebbins; Frothingham's Tribute to T. S. King; The Army's Mission; Voice from the Army; The Last Word in Theology by C. A. Bartol; The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell; How Shall I Enter the Ministry?; The Social Changes Affecting the Ecclesiastical Life of New England Towns by Henry W. Bellows; The Church of the Future as Indicated by the Tendencies of Modern Thought and Feeling by James Cranbook; Life of Horace Mann [Abolitionist and Women's Rights Pioneer]; Review of Sermons Suggested by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Woodbury; Review of a Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Clark; The Call to the Unitarian Ministry by A. D. Mayo; Shall We Multiply Churches? The English Unitarian Association; Report of Calvin Stebbins - Missionary of the A. U. A. in Charleston South Carolina [Series. freedman, slavery, confederacy, etc.]; Work in the South among Freedmen [Series]; Unitarianism and the Doctrine of Punishment; Mr. George Livermore; Our Army Work; etc.

VOLUME FOURTH. Volumes 7 for 1866 bound in a single volume, lacking #9.

Contents for 1866: Unitarianism and Institutions of Learning; The Lord's Supper; The India Mission - Letters from W. Theobald Jr.; Report of C. Y. De Normandie - Missionary of the AUA to Richmond Virginia [Reconstruction; Confederacy; etc]; Report of Calvin Stebbins - Missionary of the AUA to Charlestown South Carolina [Freedman; Reconstruction]; Sermons for Children by A. P. Peabody; Review of the History of the Rebellion by Thayer; Results of the India Mission by James Freeman Clarke; The Claims of Antioch College by Henry W. Bellows; The Mission to Charleston South Carolina [Extensive]; The Atonement in Connection with the Death of Christ by F. H. Hedge; Missionary Obstacles and Methods in the West by A. D. Mayo; God the Father by A. P. Peabody; A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets [Review; George R. Noyes]; Life of Jared Sparks; Our Army Record; Our Relations with the Spiritual World by J. Weiss [Extensive. Spiritualism; Apparitions, etc.]; Prayer by B.P. Stebbins; Human Nature Not Ruined but Incomplete by C. C. Everett; Baptism by L. J. Livermore; Our Relations with the Universalists; Report on the Organization of Christian Societies without Ministers by W. P. Tilden; Review of Massachusetts in the Rebellion; Extensive Reports of the National Convention; etc. 

VOLUME FIFTH. Volumes 8 for 1867 bound in a single volume, lacking #2.

Contents for 1867: Correspondence from Mr. Dall of the A.U.A. Mission in India [Series]; On Mission Work in Tennessee [Reconstruction]; Report of Mr. C. H. Brigham - Missionary to Ann Arbor, MI; Christ the Son of God by W. G. Eliot; Our Mission in North Carolina; Letters from South Carolina [Freedmen, Reconstruction]; Inspiration of the New Testament by James Freeman Clarke; Christ the Son of Man by W. G. Eliot; Creeds and Confessions; Review of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Ministerial Education; The Increase of Christ by Robert Collyer; The Distinctive Doctrines of Unitarianism by Charles A. Humphreys; The Elements of a Working Church by Cazneau Palfrey; The Life to Come by A. P. Putnam; The Church by H. W. Hall; Our Cause in the West; etc., PLUS, The Year-Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1867 [with fine engraved adverts bound in at rear. 

Each bound in full red calf as shown, the first volume and the last breached at hinges, though still intact and stable. Textually generally very clean and crisp. Scarce.