1848-1849 OBERLIN EVANGELIST. Two Full Years of Charles G. Finney's Revival & Anti-Slavery Paper.

Very rare and desirable on the market, the present well-loved volume contains two complete years of The Oberlin Evangelist, then-presently under the editorship of Asa Mahan, but with regular contributions still from its originator, Charles Grandison Finney.

Superb contents. Oberlin, a hub of revivalist and holiness activities, also became central to the work of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad, with several of its professors being tried for aiding refugees and the school itself intentionally recruiting freedpersons to train as pastors and missionaries. Significant related content, as described below. 

The Oberlin Evangelist: A Semi-Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the Promotion of Religion. Conducted by an Association. Volume X. Oberlin. James M. Fitch. 1848. 192pp.

Contents include: A Living and Dead Faith - Sermon by Asa Mahan; Last Sickness and Death of Mrs. Finney; Slavery and its Village Fruits [Series on Slavery on the Western Frontier]; Slaveholding Examined in the Light of the Holy Bible; The Vigilance Committee to Prevent Kindapping; Facts that Deserve to be Pondered Preferring Gradual Accessions to the Church to Sudden Additions through Wide Spread Revivals; Letters to the Oberlin Evangelist from J. S. Green of the Sandwich Islands [Extensive Series - Makawao, East Maui]; Faith Impossible to All who Seek Honor One of Another - Sermon by Asa Mahan; How to Preach with Power to the Conscience of the Sinner; Revivals beginning to Return; The Little Slave Boy - James Henry is Free [northern children helped purchase the freedom of a child slave through contributing via the Oberlin Evangelist]; Description of "A Happy Slave;" Finney's Revival Lectures; The Beauty of Juvenile Piety; Papers on War by John B. Beach; Abolitionists - Men of One Idea; Henry Ward Beecher; Revival in Mansfield; All Things Working for the Good of the Believer - A Sermon by Asa Mahan; Revival Spirit; Scriptural View of the Efficacy of Prayer Reasonable; Oberlin Views of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith; Letter from George Thomson [on attending a colored church, piety of the negro Christians, etc.]; The Siam Missionaries and Perfectionism; The Revival Era in England which Commenced with Whitefield; Slave-Holder's Creed; Difficulties Connected with the Doctrine of Sanctification Stated and Removed. by Charles Finney; An Appeal on Behalf of the Siam Mission; The American Sunday School Union and Slavery; Slavery's Doings; The Present Position of the Northern States; The Recent Troubles in Hayti [Haiti]; The Anti-Slavery Movement; The Conservative Element in a Republican Government; Peace - Elihu Burrit's Pledge; The Mystery of Divine Love; Pungent Preaching; The Siam Mission - The American Board - and Dr. Bradley; The Rage for Fiction; Letter from an Influential Clergyman in Michigan to Prof. Finney with a Reply by President Mahan; New Aspect of the Anti-Slavery Cause [on divisions between Garrison and others]; The American Home Missionary Society and Slavery; A Change of the Sabbath from the Seventh Day to the First Day of the Week Directly Predicted in the Old Testament ; The Colored People in Canada; Free Soil Anti-Slavery Movement; Refuges of Lies - A Sermon by Professor Charles G. Finney; The Ohio Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb; The Triumph of Prayer; Frederick Douglass and the North Star; To the Anti-Slavery Christian Public - A Voice from Africa - Written by George Thompson in Freetown, Sierra Leone; The Spirit Not Striving Always - A Sermon by C. G. Finney; The Character of Our Prayer Meetings; The Comforter by Miss Prudentia C. Safford; Excuses Condemn God by C. G. Finney; The Mission to the Ojibewas; The Conditions of Being Saved - A Sermon by Charles G. Finney; First-Hand Account of a Visit to Utah, the Mormons, "Prophet Joe," etc.; Where are the Intercessors; The Use of Tobacco; The Pride of Heart Deceives - Sermon by C. G. Finney; William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator - And the Bible; George - The Slave Poet; etc. 

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The Oberlin Evangelist. A Semi-Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the Promotion of Religion. Sustained by an Association. Volume XI. Oberlin. Printed and Published by J. M. Fitch. 1849. 208pp.

Contents include: The Life and Writings of Madame Guyon; Universal Peace; Revival Tokens; Geographical Barriers against War; How to Read the Bible with Interest and Profit; Slavery in the District of Columbia; Receipts by the Agent for the Ohio Colored Orphan at Cincinnati since February 9th, 1848; Receipts for the Canada Mission [Underground Railroad]; Mutual Confession of Faults and Mutual Prayer - A Sermon by C. G. Finney; The Oberlin Peace Banner; God's Anger against the Wicked - A Sermon by C. G. Finney; The Doctrine of Sanctification by Asa Mahan; The Cholera; Anti-Slavery in Congress; Experience in Conversion; The Promised Work of the Spirit; Prayer for Specific Blessings; The Colored Men's Convention in Columbus; One of the Last of the Seminoles; Black Laws of Ohio; The Life of Hannah - The Ojibewa Convert who died at Oberlin; The Indian Girl; Evil Thinking - Sermon by Charles Grandison Finney; Unitarians on the Anxious Seat; Doctor Bradley and the Siam Mission; Course of Petitioning the Black Laws of Ohio; Hayti; Humanity to the Prisoner; Prayer for a Pure Heart - A Sermon by C. G. Finney; An Interesting and Extraordinary Conversion; Colored Churches and Preachers; Tobacco Facts and Reform; Flogging in the Navy; The Character and Writings of Mrs. Hannah More; Jesus a Savior from Sinning - Sermon by C. G. Finney; The Life of the Countess of Huntingdon; The Piety the World Hates; Revival in Ohio; The Self-Hardening Sinner's Doom - Sermon by C. G. Finney; The Death of the Saints Precious by C. G. Finney; Shall the Sale of Ardent Spirits by Prohibited by Law?; Tobacco an Idol God; Emancipation in Kentucky; Ecclesiastical Action on Slavery; Action on Slavery by the New School General Assembly; Extensive Missionary Correspondence from Hayti [Haiti]; Bibles for Slaves; Christian Colonists in Siam; The Millennium; Bibles for Slaves - A Correction; Action of the New School Assembly on Slavery; The Cholera - National Fast; Defense of the Sandwich Island Missionaries; The Two Great Evils of the Church; The Mexican War; Ojibewa Mission; The Millennium - Its Use and Abuse; Effect of Imagination in the Cholera; Letter of Rev. J. S. Green of the Sandwich Islands; The Value and Need of Lay Labor; The Paris Peace Convention; Faith the Work of God by C. G. Finney; The Peace Movement - Elihu Burritt; The Millennium Abused; Opposition to Christ's Reign; Dearth of Revivals; Revival Scenes; Sermon Preached on the Death of Richard Cushman, Missionary to Hayti [Haiti]; The Sky-Rocket Disciple; Anti-Slavery Facts; California; The Social Condition of Hayti; A Neighborhood Revival; The World's Anti-Slavery Convention; Slavery Precluded from the California Constitution; California Repentings; Slaves Moving for Freedom; Divine Manifestations to the Soul; Anti-Slavery Petition for Ladies; Cost of War Preparations in Peace; 

A good - copy, bound in half leather with the boards nearly detached, lightly shaken, with handled pages.