Lowrie, John Marshall, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., July 16, 1817, and | was educated for two years in Jefferson College, Can- onsburg. Pa., and afterwards at Lafaj'ette College, Eas- ton, Pa. (class of 1840); and then at the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. (class of 1842). In AprO, 1842, he was licensed by Newton Presbyterj-, and soon after, accepting a call to the churches of Blairstown and Knowlton, in Warren County, N. J., he was ordained and installed by Newton Presbytery Oct. 18, 1843. In 1846 he accepted a call to WellsviUe, Ohio; subsequent- ly he removed to Lancaster, Ohio, and thence to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he labored faithfully until his death, Sept. 26, 18G7. Dr. Lowrie contributed largely to the press, and wrote many precious gems in poetry and prose ; he was a man of more than ordinarj' gifts, a clear, vigorous intellect, and sound judgment; he excelled in systematic arrangement, clear statement, and forcible argument. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Aim. 1868, p. 115 sq. (J. L. S.)
Lo^wrie, Reuben, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Butler, Pa., Nov. 24, 1827, and was educated at the University of New York City, where for one year he served as tutor; studied theology at Princeton, N. J.; aftenvards became principal of a presbyterial academy in Luzenie County, Pa. ; was licensed by the Luzerne Presbytery in 1851, at which time he engaged in the work of foreign missions among the Choctaw Indians; in 1853 he was ordained, and April 22 sailed as mission- ary to Shanghai, China. Here he applied himself to the study of the Chinese language, translated the Short- er Catechism, and a Catechism on the Old-Testament His- tory, into this dialect; devoted much time to the com- pletion of a Dictionary of the Four Books, commenced b}' his deceased brother; he had also nearly finished a Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese when he died, April 26, 1860, Sec Wilson, Presb. Hist. Aim. 1861, p. 96. (J.L. S.)
Lowrie, Walter Macon, a Presbyterian mis- sionary to China, was born in Butler, Pa.", in 1819 (V), graduated from Jefferson College in 1837, passed a the- ological course at Princeton, was ordained by tlie Sec- ond Presbytery of New York, and entered on "his minis-
terial labors. While passing from Shanghai to Ningpo, Aug. 19, 1847, he was thrown overboard by pirates, and drowned at sea, about twelve miles from Chapoo, Cliina. The date of his embarkation from America is not known, but he was in China some time prior to 1842. He was a young man of fine powers and large cidture, and prom- ised much lor the Church and the world. His piety was of a lofty, self-denying stamp, which made him equal to all obstacles, and his career was opening grandly when thus suddenly called to his reward. He wrote Letters to Sabbath-school Children: — Lcmd of Sinai, or Exposi- tion of Isaiah xlix (Phila. 1846, 18mo), A volume of his Serinons preached in China was also published (1851, 8vo). See Fierson, Missiona7-y Memorial, p. 396; New York Observer, Jan. 8, 1848 ; Memoirs of W. M. Lowrie (New York, Carter and Brothers, 1849) ; Princeton Re- view, xxii, 280.
Low Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, so called because it was customary to repeat on this c'.iy some part of the solemnity which was used on Easter day, whence it took the name of Low Sunday, being cel- ebrated as a feast, but of a lower degree than Easter day itself. — Eden, Theoloejical Dictionary.
Lowth, Robert, D.D., a distinguished English prelate, ami son of William Lowtli (q. v.), was born at Buriton Nov. 27, 1710. In 1737 he graduated master of arts at Oxford University, and in 1741 was elected professor of poetry in his alma mater. Entering the ecclesiastical order, he was presented with the rectory of Ovington, in Hampshire, in 1744. After a four year's residence on the Continent, he was, on his return in 1750, appointed by bishop Hoadley archdeacon of Winchester, and three j'ears after to the rectorj' of East Woodhay in Hampshire. It was in this very year that Lowth pub- lished his valuable work De Sacm Poesi HebrcEorinn, P ralectiones Academicm (Oxon. 1753, 4to ; 2d edit, with annot. by Michaelis, Gotting. 1758 ; Oxf. 1763 ; Getting. 1768; Oxford, 1775, 1810; with notes by Rosenmtiller, Leips. 1815; and last and best, Oxford, 1821, 8vo). An English translation of the first 18 lectures was prepared by Dr. Dodd for the Christian Magazine (1766-67), and of all by Dr. Gregory (Lond. 1787, 1816, 1835, 1839, 1847) ; a still more desirable English translation was prepared by Prof. Stowe (Andover, 1829, 8vo). "In these mas- terly and classical dissertations," says Ginsburg (in Kitto, Cycl. ofBibl. Lit. ii, s. v.), " Lowth not only evinces a deep knowledge of the Hebrew language, but philosophically exhibits the true spirit and characteristics of that poet- ry in which the prophets of the O. T. clothed the lively oracles of God. It does not at all detract from Lowth's merits that both Abrabanel and Azariah, de Rossi had pointed out two centuries before him the same features of Hebrew poetry [see Rossi] upon which he expatiates, inasmuch as the enlarged views and the invuicible ar- guments displayed in his handling of the subject are peculiarly his own; and his work is therefore justly re- garded as marking a new epoch in the treatment of the Hebrew poetry. The greatest testimony to the ex- traordinarj^ merits of these lectures is the thorough an- alysis which the celebrated [Jewish] philosopher IMen- delssohn, to whom the Hebrew was almost vernacular, gives of them in the Bibiiothek der schunen Wissenschaf- ten iind der freien Kiinste, vol. i, 1756." In 1751 Lowth received the degree of doctor in divinity from the L^ni- versity of Oxford by diploma. In 1755 he went to Ire- land as chaplain to the marquis of Hartington, then ap- pointed lortl lieutenant, who nominated him bishop of Limerick, a preferment which he exchanged for a pre- bend of Durham and the rectory of Sedgefield. In 1766 Dr. Lowth was appointed bishop of St. Da%'id's, whence a few months later he was translated to the see of Oxford, and thence, in 1777, he succeeded Dr. Terrick in the diocese of London. In 1778, only one year after his appointment at London, he gave to the public his last and greatest work, Isaiah : a new Trans- lation, with a preliminary Dissertation, and Notes (13th