The anchor: with sketches of the lives of Jeremiah Evarts James Montgomery and Gregory T. Bedell
183627260Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1836. First edition 12mo pp. 72; engraved frontis illustration title-page vignette 5 illustrations in the text 1 full-page; contemporary quarter calf and blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt direct on spine; extremities worn with boards soiled and scuffed and pages with some staining but overall good and sound. A brief illustrated description of anchors and their functions--both literal and metaphorical--followed by an account of the wreck of the packet ship Albion. The "sketches" of Evarts 1781-1831 missionary reformer and opponent of Native American removal policies Montgomery b. 1787 Episcopal minister and first rector of St. Stephen's church in Philadelphia and Bedell 1791-1834 founder of St. Andrew's also in Philadelphia are in fact accounts of their death-bed experiences. Bloch 1474. <br/><br/> American Sunday-School Union hardcover books
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