A rather scarce volume including three complete years of an Evangelically-minded Church of England publication; content is formulated for families with specific articles throughout for mothers, children, and fathers. Of interest as well is extensive content regarding various disabilities.
The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, and Guide to Christian Truth. January to December, 1860. London. Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt. 1860.
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The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, and Guide to Christian Truth. January to December, 1861. London. Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt. 1861.
[bound with]
The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, and Guide to Christian Truth. January to December, 1862. London. Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt. 1862.
CONTENTS FOR 1860: An Invitation to United Prayer at the Lodiana Mission [1859 Prayer Revival in India]; Felix Neff - Apostle of the Alps; Visit to the Cereghini at Favale; From an Afflicted One [Written by a Dwarf on the Challenges of Dwarfism]; Dead Little Ones; Recollections of a Sermon by Charles Simeon, Feb. 19, 1829; A Mother's Prayers; A Day of Rest - God's Gift; Johnny's Prayer; The White-Veiled Nun; My Mother's Bible; It is I - Be not Afraid; Thomas Fowell Buxton - The Christian Philanthropist; A Praying Mother May Save a Whole Household; The Useful Cripple; Recollections of a Sermon by the Rev. Charles Simeon, Sunday Evening, June 21, 1829; Charming Monkey Etching [p.244]; Jim Kitto - The Deaf Author; etc. etc.
CONTENTS FOR 1861: A Proposed Week of Special Prayer; The Blind Patient; The Worshiped Book [Dr. Boardman in India]; New Zealand [series]; Hugh Miller - The Great Geologist; The Happiness of a Glorified Spirit; The Burmese Blacksmith; Unconscious Influence; Some of John Bunyan's Dying Sayings Respecting the Lord's Day, Sermons, and Week Days; Britain when it had no Church [Druids, engraving of Stonehenge, p.74]; Prayer - The Heart of Speaking; Principles which are at the Root of Religious Belief [series]; Extract from a Sermon on the Occasion of the Recent Wrecks on the Eastern Coast; A Word from a Bereaved Owner of Chameleons [fine engraving, p.191]; Prayer - The Greatest Comfort of a Christian; Sea-Side Wonders; Heathen Legends Respecting the Miracle of Joshua; The Witness of the Spirit; The Grave-Digger; etc.
CONTENTS FOR 1862: The Infidel Taught of God; The Love of God the Father; Mission to the London Letter-Carriers; Dying Testimonies; A Scene in a Barn - Lessons to be Learned from the Rats; Let us Kneel before the Lord Our Maker [on kneeling in prayer]; The Island of Ramatara; Maxims for Parents; Christian Communion; The Deaf and Dumb Boy; Sick, Homeless, and Blind; Walking Unworthily; The Arrow of Conviction; Recollections of a Sermon by the Rev. Charles Simeon, Sunday Evening, May 3, 1829; The Returning Prodigal; Dr. William Carey; Where Teetotalism Found John Rogers and What it Did for Him; Christian Inconsistency or the Professor Rebuked; The Blind Teacher; The Land of Liberty; An Old Man's Prayer Answered; etc. etc.
Good + period half leather volume, very solid. Some rubbing, rear marbled board with losses. Interior solid, crisp, and clean.