1864 WESLEYAN-METHODIST MAGAZINE. Beautiful with Content on Slavery, William Wilberforce, Sacredness of Black Persons, &c.

Very attractive, clean full year of a superb periodical, made all the more interesting by its content of direct relevance to the ongoing American Civil War.

The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, 1864. London. Wesleyan Conference Office. 1864 588pp.

Contents include: Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me, from the Unpublished MSs of the Late Rev. Samuel Jackson; My Leanness! My Leanness! A Word to Those who Complain of being in a Low State of Grace by I. E. Page; Christianity in the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; The Honour Paid by Christ to the Scripture - A Sermon by George Osborn - President of the Conference; The Providence of God Displayed; History and Present Circumstances of the Empire of Japan [series]; Godliness and its Profit - A Sermon by Thomas Jackson; St. Paul and Slavery [with clear reference to American Slavery, the Civil War, etc. Justin Martyr & His Times; Primitive Christian Experience by Harriet Beecher Stowe; St. Paul a Man of Much Prayer; Hannah More and Her Sisters [and Dr. Johnson, William Wilberforce, etc.]; The Inspiration of Holy Scripture; William Wilberforce - The Godly Statesman; The Primitive Standard of Christian Experience; On Preaching Christ; Young Hearts Susceptible of Good Impressions; Sudden Conversions; True Science a Handmaid of Religion; Scriptural Views of the Atonement; Lunar Scenery; Unity of the Human Race [explicitly arguing for the humanization of black persons in light of the ongoing slavery in America, etc.]; Biography of Wesley's much-loved Puritan, Robert Bolton; Sects in Russia; Prayer Meetings; etc.

Very attractive half leather, some rubbing, one loss to marbling on front board. Very sound, crisp, and clean.