1842 REYNOLDS RELIGIOUS MAG. Martyrdom of John Williams, Politics & Pastors, Jewish Converts, & Hawaii

Rather rare full year of the first year issued of Reynold's Monthly with excellent content. No other on the market at any price. Rather scarce. 

Reynolds, W. M. The Monthly Magazine of Religion and Literature. February 1840 - January 1841 Complete. Gettysburg. Printed by H. C. Neinstedt. 1840. 388pp.

Contents include:

Theological Education [What it is and its importance]

Christian Missions

French Outrage at the Society and Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]

Homiletics. The Role of Eloquence

Christian Missions. Christian David Swartz's Labors in India

Christian Union

On a Revision of the Authorized Version of the Scriptures [King James Version Revision]

The Political Duties of the Ministers of the Gospel

The Murder of Messrs John Williams and Harris, Missionaries in Australia [Rare early letter recounting martyrdom of John Williams]

The Sandwich Islands

The Doctrine Concerning Hell and Heaven

A Sketch of the Indian Tribes Known Under the Appellation of Muskogees, with some General Remarks upon the Manners and Customs, as Well as the Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Faculties of the American Aborigines. By an Officer of the Medical Staff, U. S. Army. [Muskeogees / Seminole / Physic-Dance / Suicides / George Guess and the Indian Alphabet etc.

Sketches of Celebrated Preachers. John Chrysostom

The Decline of Piety after the Reformation

Christian Missions. Early Missions of the Nestorians in Central and Eastern Asia

A Missionary Address from China, Macao, by D. Abeel

Jewish Converts

The Christian Patriot

Sketches of Celebrated Preachers. Thomas Chalmers

Sketches of Celebrated Preachers. Edward Irving

Scenes in the Life of a Western Emigrant. By a Hoosier Lady [serial]

On Theocracy

Original full calf, small section lifted at base of spine, rubbed through at extremities. Very stable and still attractive. Foxed and some light spotting throughout; perhpas damp at some point. Vertical tear from bottom of one leaf, not impacting legibility. Good -.