"BUT WHAT IS AN E.U.' "
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—As a sometime E.U., and the son of an E.U., I am able to answer your reviewer's anxious question, "But what is an
E.U.' ? " (in the Spectator of January 25th). An E.U. is an adherent of one of the churches of the Evangelical Union,—a little Scots sect which was formed about fifty years ago by Dr. Morison. Hence the alternative name of " Morisonia.n." In doctrine the E.U.'s are practically Congregationalists. For some time, indeed, negotiations for union with the Independent body have been going on. Many of the E.U. ministers are pastors of English Congregational Churches. Dr. Fairbairn, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, was originally an E.U. In matters of social reform, the E.U.'s have generally held advanced views, and, unless I am much mistaken, all their ministers are teetotalers.—I am, Sir, &c.,
J. W. R. S.
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