A PARTING WORD FROM THE EDITORS.

THE present number of the Bible Christian completes the third year of our Editorial labors, and terminates our connexion with the work. While we are conscious of many defects in the volumes we have published, we trust that, making allowance for the gradual and happy decline of that excitement which first led to the publication of the Bible Christian, they will not be found inferior in interest to those which have preceded them. Whatever interest they may possess, however, we would not be understood as attributing to our own abilities, for of these we have perhaps as humble an opinion as our subscribers have; nor to the co-operation of our clerical brethren, for with the exception of the Rev. R. E. B. Maclellan, and the Rev. W. H. Doherty, whose assistance we gratefully remember, their contributions have been like "angel's visits;" but to the articles which we have introduced from other periodicals, or the extracts we have made from new works, especially from those of American Unitarians, who seem, in religious feeling,, as well as in locality, to be farther removed from the Frigid Zone than we in Ireland.

During our management of the Bible Christian, the objects at which we have aimed, were the advocacy of Religious Liberty, the explanation and defence of Unitarian Christianity, and the cultiva tion of piety and zeal among the members of our own denomination. If in these objects we have even partially succeeded, we are amply rewarded for a task which, however light it may appear to others, we have felt to be one of labor and difficulty. We rejoice that, in retiring from our office, we will be succeeded by, one who brings to its duties, great talents and untiring zeal-one who will not only use the periodical to defend the doctrines of "pure and undefiled religion," but also to enforce its duties-one who will mark the progress of public feeling, and will give due attention and support to Sunday- School Education, and the other plans for religious improvement with which our body are at present occupied. To him we gladly resign our little work, and confidently anticipate that under his Editorship its interest and usefulness will greatly increase.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

All Articles in the possession of the Editors will be handed over to their successor,