An important assemblage of 62 issues total of a rare early pastoral publication designed specifically for agents of the American Home and Missionary Society, largely distributed in the South, including among missionaries working among free black Americans, and among slaves on plantations, etc., and among missionaries joining the Oregon Trail, etc,. and heading toward the Pacific as part of the Westward Expansion.

The 62 issues include 15 issues of The Home Missionary, issued by the American Home Missionary Society, paginated erratically, but ranging from 1835 to 1841. 

And a further 47 issues, again paginated erratically, of The Pastor's Journal, and then The American Pastor's Journal. which was the renamed continuation of the previous, The Home Missionary. 

Contents include: The Spiritual Exercises of a Female who describes herself as "the most ignorant and stupid being to have ever lived;" Maternal Influence; Alcohol, Infidelity, and Death; Conversion of an Orthodox Moralist; The Murder of Souls; The Baptism of a Universalist on a Dying Bed; John Welch and the Friar [Scottish Reformation / Covenanters]; The Emigrant's Story [German Emigrant]; The Revival in Taunton [1741]; Surprising Success of a Temperance Society; Religion in a Cabin; Anecdote of the Late Rev. Dr. Rice of Virginia [Missouri]; Memoir of Mrs. Jerusha Holmes; Sketch of the Puritan, Rev. Thomas Doolittle; Serious Hints to Preachers; The Danger of Wit and Wealth; Negro Converts in St. Thomas in 1739 [excellent article]; The Cost of Sabbath Breaking; A Missionary's Recollection of the West; A Steam-Boat Scene; The Treatment of Awakened Persons; Memorials of a Revival [series, extensive]; The Rev. Joseph Badger of Wood County, Ohio; Influence of a Man's Wife on his Character and Destiny; Memoir of Rev. Charles T. Robinson of St. Charles, Missouri [awakened at Williams College in 1812 in the wake of the Haystack Prayer Revival]' Interesting Circumstances in the History of a Sea Captain, by a Missionary of the Sandwich Islands - Hawaii]; Scenes in the Wset [which the author calls Western Zion, working in Ohio]; The Suicide; Memoir of Mrs. Rev. John U. Parsons - Missionary to Indiana; The Friday Meeting - Or - The Gift of Prayer the Spirit of Prayer; The Drunkard's Wife; Things to be Thought of by American Christians [Dramatic Growth of West Equated with Missionary Need of China]; How to Retaliate on an Angry Controversialist; The Evil Effect of Giving Children Ardent Spirits; The Great Controversy; etc. ertc. 

Also bound with:

Sprague, William B. Religious Ultraism: A Sermon Delivered August 25, 1835, at the Installation of the Rev. John H. Hunter, as Pastor of the First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Albany. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen. 1835.

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Chapin, Calvin. A Sermon Delivered, 14th January, 1817, at the Funeral of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, D.D.LL.D. President of Yale College, in New-Haven, and Professor of Divinity in that Institution: Who died, Jan. 11th, 1817, in the Sixty-Fifth Year of His Age, and Twenty-Second of His Presidency. New-Haven. Published by Maltby, Goldsmith, & Co. T. G. Woodward Printer. 1817. 35pp.

Beecher, Lyman. A Sermon Addressed to the Legislature of Connecticut at New-Haven, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 3d, 1826. New-Haven. Published by Order of the Legislature. I. Bunce. Printer. 1826. 22pp.

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Withington, Leonard. A Sermon, Preached at the Annual Elect, May 25, 1831, before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts. Boston. Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State. 1831. 48pp. 

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Miscellaneous Issues of The American National Preacher, including addresses by Edward Beecher, Wilbur Fisk, Robert S. Storrs, &c. 

Bound in half sheep with marbled boards for Rev. Mr. Underwood; spine rubbed and quite dry, hinges breached but intact. Textually good with margins occasionally close cropped at the lower edge. Sporadic foxing which varies by paper quality throughout.