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Philadelphia: (Russell & Martien, Printers), Jan. 2, 1828. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. The first number of a short-lived missionary magazine, published for the first seven weekly numbers under this title, subsequently as The Christian Magazine and Clerical Review, publishing weekly through mid-April, then monthly until it ceased publication with issue... More about The Christian Warrior. Vol. I, No. I [caption title
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1862. First edition. 8vo, removed, retaining original printed front wrapper, 32 pages. Map on the verso of the title. "There are educated young men, who can no longer tolerate the absurdities of Hindu philosophy, and who regard Mohammedism, Parsiism and the Gospel as standing... More about Historical Sketch of the Mission to the Mahrattas of Western India
Boston: Crocker & Brewster [which becomes: Published by the Board], 1838-1853. 20 nos., 8vo, original printed wrappers on all numbers. A small broken run of the board's monthly serial, with much of interest regarding missions around the world. 1838: May. 1840: January. 1846: January. 1847: January, April, July, September. 1848... More about The Missionary Herald
Boston: T. R. Marvin, Printer, 1827. First edition. 8vo, removed, 38 pages. Aside from information on the general aims of the missionary society, the report includes much detail on members and donors, broken down by city, with names and amounts given. American Imprints 27906. More about Proceedings at the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Auxiliary Foreign Mission Society of Boston and...
New York [etc.]: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1895). First edition. 12mo, original orange- and yellow-stamped pictorial brown cloth, 108, [5] pages. A fairly comprehensive overview of contemporary culture in India and the peculiar requirements and expectations of missionaries, intended for those who plan missionary work. More about The Cross in the Land of the Trident
Philadelphia: Published by the Board, 1849. First edition. 8vo removed, 68 pages. Includes a detailed 28-page chart listing the 514 missionaries, their fields of labor, dates of commission, etc. With much on the opening of California as a new field of opportunity. More about Annual Report of the Board of Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the...
Boston: Printed by Ezra Lincoln, 1820. First edition. 8vo, removed, 48 pages. On laying the corner stone of this institution for training ministers; though he does not name Unitarians specifically, Clark does celebrate the expected education of sufficient orthodox clergy and domestic missionaries to counter those with heterodox views. (He... More about A Plea for a Miserable World. I. An Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the...
Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1816. First edition. 8vo, removed, 36 pages. On the relative merits of heathens versus infidels and the obvious perils for each condition. Includes a list of the members of the American Board of Commissioners as well as one of Foreign Mission Societies. Old ink... More about A Sermon, Delivered before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their...
Utica: Curtiss & White, Printers, 1852. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 98 pages. The Episcopal Bishop's trip through to England, in exhaustive detail, with a sub-current of anglophile anxiety running through the text; De Lancey remarks a few occasions marking the first time an American Bishop had delivered an... More about The Mission to the Jubilee. Bishop De Lancey's Report to the Convention of the Diocese of Western...
[Casey, Illinois? n. p.], (1910). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, red lettering, [92] unnumbered pages. 10 inserted plates. An account of the life of a woman usually considered something of a Methodist saint, Lizzie Louvira Johnson (1869-1909), confined to bed in the family home in Casey, Illinois since age... More about From Pillow to Throne. Miss Lizzie L. Johnson, Invalid Missionary Worker. ‘Go Work in My...
New York: Published jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, (1921). First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, x, 182 pages. Frontis, 10 plates. A detailed and interesting semi-sociological study of mission work among the immigrants and migrant agricultural workers of the U.S., with attention paid... More about From Survey to Service
New York: American Bible Society, 1906. First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial tan wrappers ("Mr. Jackson at Ellis Island"), 14, [1] pages. Bible distribution, with persuasion to read the Book, is the beginning, and middle, and end, and perpetual occupation of all sorts of missions--an essential feature of purely evangelistic... More about Ninety Years with the Auxiliaries of the American Bible Society
[San Francisco: n. p., 1896?]. 8vo, unbound, four pages. A fund-raising circular for a recently-established mission "south of the Slot" in San Francisco. "Much is being done in the way of reform work--so much needed in a district honey-combed with saloons." Under the care of Rev. William Ingraham Kip, the... More about The Mission of the Good Samaritan. Second Street, near Folsom [caption title
Boston: Printed by Crocker & Brewster, 1826. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched as issued, 40 pages, untrimmed. The sermon covers the qualifications needed to serve as a foreign missionary as well as the expected trials; appended are two short charges to the missionaries, from L. Ives Hoadley, from Worcester, Mass.... More about The Importance of the Last Promise of Jesus Christ to Christian Missionaries. A Sermon Delivered...
Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin, 1851. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 30 pages. A funeral sermon for Goodell (1789-1851), who had begun life as a shoemaker and ended up serving as a missionary to Malta from 1822, bringing with him the first printing press to the island;... More about The Rest of Heaven. A Sermon, Preached at Reading, Mass., August 13, 1851, at the Funeral of the...
New-York: Leavitt, Trow and Company, 1845. First edition. 8vo, removed, 62 pages. On finding a middle ground in publishing (and editing) tracts so as not lead to denominational controversy; the synod of the New School Presbyterian Church had taken issue with the "mutilations" of the Tract Society's edition J. H.... More about Review of the Tract Controversy: Being Substantially a Reprint of an Editorial Article in the...
Salt Lake City: Intermountain Catholic Press, (1909). First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, [6], iii, [1], 350 pages. Frontis, illus. With much on the early missionaries and the Franciscans; the Utes and their culture receive much attention as well (little of it good). Early gift inscription at... More about The Catholic Church in Utah, Including and Exposition of Catholic Faith by Bishop Scanlon, a...
New York: Edwin S. Gorham, 1920. An early reprint of the first American edition of this title. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 62 pages. The Australian-born Anglican faith healer made a triumphant debut in America in 1919; his Society of Emmanuel in England would treat patients with both medicine and prayer... More about The Healing of Christ in His Church
Newark [N.J.]: Printed by John Tuttle & Co., 1820. First edition. 8vo, contemporary brown wrappers, 21, [3] pages (final three pages blank). On the need to educate and send forth suitable missionaries. An interesting Newark imprint. American Imprints 1592. More about A Sermon, Preached May, 1820, in the Wall Street Church, New-York, Before the Presbyterian...
[N. p. n. p., ca. 1880]. Original photo measuring approx. 3.88 x 2.5 inches on a slightly larger printed mount. Caption title to the image completed in contemporary autograph ink, “Benjamin and Sarah, Village Preacher and Wife. Presented to [Casey Sutphen] by the Children’s Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church.”..... More about Original promotional carte de visite (CDV) photo of two native Indian missionaries, Benjamin and...
![A Mute Appeal on Behalf of Foreign Missions . . . [caption title]. W. B. Jacobs](/pictures/thumb/12302.jpg?v=1465913965)
Chicago: World-Wide Evangelism, [ca. 1885?]. 12mo, unbound leaflet, 4 pages. Illus. Jacobs appears to have been connected with (perhaps the son of) Chicago's B. F. Jacobs, one of the founders of the modern Sunday School movement; W. B. Jacobs here advertises a striking lithograph chart (available for $5, suitable for... More about A Mute Appeal on Behalf of Foreign Missions . . . [caption title
Sendai, Japan: Kaneko Press, August, 1899. First edition. Unbound, 7 x 4.5 inches, [3] pages. From the Japanese mission field, the Pennsylvania-born William Edwin Hoy (1858-1927) here sends six stanzas of verse back to the Reformed Church in America, “O Lord! we hear out of the night / Far China’s... More about Go. Dedicated to the Reformed Church in the United States
Lexington [Kentucky]: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1815. First Lexington edition. 12mo, original calf, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 308 pages. A nice imprint for one of the great missionary accounts, the posthumous memoirs of this first-wave missionary to India. The Dwight sermon has a separate... More about Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Harriet Newell, Wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, Missionary to India,...
[North Newton, Kansas]: (Bethel College, 1936). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, 154 pages. Two plates. A Mennonite missionary in China, India and points west. More about Letters on a Trip Around the World Written to Members of his Family
Erie, Pa. Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 24 pages. The publication of the following discourses may be regarded as an experiment, on part of the author, to determine whether by *brain* or *brawn* he may best supplement the meagre salary of a Home... More about Three Sermons: 1. Human Brotherhood. 2. The Curse of Meroz. 3. Christian Contentment. By a Home...
