Excellent volume containing the first two years of the Massachusetts' Sabbath School Society's periodical. Scarce on the market, and some fascinating content.
Contents for 1844 include: The Advantages of Sabbath Schools; An Hour at Nauvoo [Mormon, Latter Day Saints]; The Value of the Bible; Closet Prayer; Employment for Children; Means of Conversion; John Cotton ]and His Ministry to Children]; The Dying Sailor; Early Piety; Heavenly Teaching; On Infant Baptism; Insufficiency of Knowledge without Religion; Lessons from the Heathen; John Knox; Mother's Influence; On Parental Influence; Persecution; On Popular Literature; The Spirit of Prayer; A Revival in Ray County, Missouri; Puritan Mother [Excellent on Anne Bradstreet, with Poems]; The Westminster Assembly's Catechism; A Wild and Wicked Scholar; A Sacramental Occasion in the Highlands; etc.
Contents for 1845 include: The Ability to Teach; Sabbath Schools in Berkshire County; Lord Byron and the Bible; A Mother at the Grave of David Brainerd; The Cheshire County Maternal Association; The Daily Value of Sunshine; The Danger of Self-Deception; Educational Systems of the Puritans; Daily Prayer; On Family Government; Family as a Religious Society; The Heart of a Nation; Sabbath School Books in Indiana; The Day of Judgment; Libraries for Destitute Sabbath Schools; The Want of Sabbath Schools in Michigan; Children's Missionary Ships; Sabbath School Report of the Okla Hanali [Choctaw Indians]; Parental Influence. Pay Your Minister; etc. etc.
Anonymous. The Congregational Visiter. For Parents, Church-Members and Sabbath School Teachers. Edited by The Publishing Committee. of the Mass. S. S. Society. Vol. I...1844. Boston. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1844. 284pp.
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Anonymous. The Congregational Visiter. For Parents, Church-Members and Sabbath School Teachers. Edited by The Publishing Committee. of the Mass. S. S. Society. Vol. II...1845. Boston. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1845. 284pp.
A good - copy, bound in half leather that's rubbed, chipped, and tender at the hinges. Generally solid, with light foxing, and a stain at the top of text block for the last few gatherings.
