1829-1834 CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR. Six Years of Important Great Awakening & Abolitionist Periodical.

An unusually well-preserved run of the first six years of the primary mouth-piece for the New Haven divinity prominent at Yale during the second great awakening. The original articles and extensive reviews of influential works are expansive, often 30 pages. Perhaps the most important periodical articulating theological and pastoral theology during the era. 

Important early American review of William Wilberforce, conversations on the fanaticism of Jedidiah Burchard, efforts and movements toward colonization in Liberia, abolitionism an slavery, plus ongoing debate between moderate Calvinists like Nathaniel Taylor and more conservative Calvinists, etc., 

A significant grouping.  

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol. I. 1829 [Complete]. New Haven. A. H. Maltby. 1829. 712pp.

Contents include: Dr. Gardiner Spring on Regeneration; An Exercitation on the Second Psalm; Moses Stuart on Hebrews; Stewart's Journal in the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; On the Means of Regeneration [Gardiner Spring, Nathaniel Taylor]; William Sprague's Letters on Revival; Thomas Erskine on the Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel; Nathaniel Taylor on Human Depravity; The Character of Oliver Cromwell; The Exclusion of Infidels from Judicial Oaths; John Angell James on Christian Charity; Works on the Structure of the Earth; Life, Time, and Writings of Thomas Boston; Daniel Wilson's Edition of Practical View by William Wilberforce, etc.

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol. II. 1830 [Complete]. New Haven. A. H. Maltby. 1830. 750pp.

Contents include: Memoir of Mrs Adoniram Judson; Varioloid and Small Pox and on the Moral Effects of Malignant Diseases; Edward Payson's Sermons; Letters on Revivals of Religion; Report of the Prison Discipleship Society; Missions to China; Lives of Cotton Mather and Matthew Henry; The Doctrine of Imputation; Report on African Colonization; Bellamy on the Permission of Sin; Life and Writings of Andrew Fuller; Essays of Philanthropos on Peace and War; On Penal Law, etc.

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol. III. 1831 [Complete]. New Haven. A. H. Maltby. 1831. 672pp.

Contents include: Memoirs of Edward Payson; President Wayland's Sermon on Behalf of the American Sunday School Union; Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race; Works of Robert Hall; Seamen's Friend Society; The Case of Mr. Albert Barnes [tried for heterodoxy]; On the Importance of being Conformed to the Scriptural Standard of Christian Character; The Works of Jonathan Edwards; Principles of Common Sense Applied to Certain Disputed Doctrines; The Church Psalmody; Edward Dorr Griffin's Remains; Fisk on Predestination and Election; etc.

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol. IV. 1832 [Complete]. New Haven. Stephen Cooke. 674pp.

Contents include: Farr on Revivals; Nathaniel Taylor and Joel Hawes; Assurance of Piety Peculiarly the Duty of Christians at the Present Day; Journal of a Residence in Iceland; On the Obstacles to Revivals of Religion; The Free People of Color [Slavery - Abolition, etc.]; On Intercessory Prayer; Hints Designed to Aid Christians in their Efforts to Convert Men to God; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; Natural History of Enthusiasm and Saturday Evening; Moses Stuart on Romans; etc.

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol 5. 1833 [Complete]. New Haven. Stephen Cooke. 672pp.

Contents include: Character and Works of William Jay; William B. Sprague on Revivals of Religion; The Efficacy of Prayer Exemplified in the Case of a Deceased Lady; Thoughts on the Unitarian Controversy; The Works of Robert Leighton; Slavery and Colonization; How Can the Sinner be made to Feel His Guilt?; A View of the Religious Declension in New England in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century; Universalism; Researches in Armenia; Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor; Native Depravity; Views and Feelings Requisite to Success in the Gospel Ministry; Genius of William Cowper; What is the Real Difference between the New-Haven Divines and those who Oppose Them?; Slavery; Noah Webster and His Edition of the English Bible; etc.

The Quarterly Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. Vol. 6. 1834 [Complete]. New Haven. Stephen Cooke. 672pp.

Contents include: Episcopacy Tested by Scripture; Means Enjoyed by this Country for Promoting the Highest Interests of Mankind; Eternity Realized; The Memoirs of George Whitefield; Fanaticism [Charles Finney, Jedidiah Burchard, etc.]; On the Biblical Use of the Word "Son;" Spirit and Influence of the Reformation; Spiritual Songs for Social worship; The Abolition of Slavery; Robert Philip on Manly Piety; German Neology; Phrenology; Life and Character of Luther Hart; Mrs. Child' Appeal in Favor of the Africans; Life of Rowland Hill; Claims of the West; The Power of Holiness in the Christian Ministry; The American Temperance Society; Present State of Metaphysics; Memoirs of Hannah More, etc.

Good +, each in matching half leather bindings with early, c.1900, discrete labels from "Joseph McDonough Rare Books of Albany, New York." Some mild to moderate rubbing at hinges and corners, though very solid. Leather faded at spine. Interiors very solid, some scattered foxing and toning; toning more prominent on last couple volumes. Very solid working volumes. Attractive, and unusual to find an unbroken run of the first six volumes.