1880 HENRY WARD BEECHER. Six Month Run of His Paper. Slavery, Apologetics, Social Issues, &c.

A very scarce six-month run of Henry Ward Beecher's paper, The Christian Union. Similarly to Talmage's paper, Beecher's addressed a broad spectrum of issues and counseled Christians [and Americans more broadly] regarding the ethical and practical responses requisite. It included fiction [one regarding a freed slave's Christmas], the epidemic of opium addiction, social equity and wealth, Native American rights, women's suffrage, etc., 

Contents include: Mr. Parnell on the Irish Land Agitation; The Hidden Life - Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher; serialized printing of Zouri's Christmas [a book affirming black self-assertion, where the ignorant describe Zouri as an impudent "n****r gal"]; Our Magic Lantern; Illustrated Smith & Wesson Advertisements throughout; Working with Christ by Henry Ward Beecher; The Temptation of Jesus by Lyman Abbott; The Art of Making Bread by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher; Attractive Illustrated Advert for The Inebriates' Home in Fort Hamilton - Specializing in Opium Addiction; A Symposium on Immortality [Conditional Immortality]; The Bible and its Revision by John D. Champlin; Sin and Atonement by Henry Ward Beecher; Professor W. G. T. Shedd on Romans; Nature and Evolution - A Letter from President Seelye; The Dismissal of Indian Commissioner Hayt; The Relations of Capital and Labor by Joseph Cook; Professor Gray at Yale - Recent Changes and Present Tendencies in Scientific Belief by Asa Gray; Pharasaism Contrasted with Christianity by Lyman Abbott; The Third Term by James Freeman Clark [opposing a President running for a third term]; A Symposium at Joseph Cook's; The Monroe Doctrine; Causes of Spiritual Decline by Henry Ward Beecher; Daisy Millerism; The Armenian Question [from one in Armenia]; A Chinaman's Story; To a Freethinker; The Indian Question by Susette la Flesche; Our Jails by R. L. Dugdale; The Salvation Army by J. W. Bonham; Two Voices against a Third Term [for the President]; William Lloyd Garrison; Of Jewels and Precious Stones - Series by Henry Ward Beecher; The Piano War [Union Strikes]; Modern French Art and its Influence on American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney; Houses of Correction for Women by Josephine Shaw Lowell; School Suffrage; The Servant Question [on Christian relationship to the lower classes, use of cheap labor, etc.]; Prospects of the Indian Question; The Problem of Evil by Thomas M. Clark; Terrible Conditions of Asiatic Turkey; The Progressive Revelation of God's Nature by Henry Ward Beecher; The Spirit World [spiritism, etc.]; The Religious Spirit of Jonathan Edwards by George P. Fisher; Concerning Presidential Candidates; Trout Fishing; The Sacredness of Man by Henry Ward Beecher; Revival Work in the Church of England by J. W. Bonham; The West Point Inquiry; Wellesley College by Lyman Abbott [expansive article with 10 engravings]; James A. Garfield; The Duty of the Republican Party; Boyish Men by Stephen H. Tyng, etc. etc 

The Christian Union for January to June, 1880. New York. N. Y. and Brooklyn Publishing Limited. 1880. 608pp 

10.5 x 14.5 inches

A very good copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.