Cleland, Thomas. Evangelical Hymns, for Private, Family, Social, and Public Worship: Selected from various Authors. Lexington, Ky: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1828. Second Edition, Improved. [9839]
Full leather binding, worn with small loss at the ends & corners, spine title label worn through, 13.5 x 7.5 cm (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches). Lacks all free end papers. 436 pp., text pages complete. Top of first page of hymns clipped. Several leaves torn with loss of some words, some stains, foxing. Good. Full leather.
Thomas Cleland, D. D. (1778-1858), b. Fairfax Co., Virginia; in 1789 moved with his parents to Washington Co., Kentucky. Cleland was an exhorter during the Great Revival of 1801, and revivals were a frequent result of his ministries. A Presbyterian minister, he "was licensed to preach at Danville in 1803, and began his ministry at Lebanon, then Hardin's Creek; was ordained over New Providence and Harrodsburg Churches in 1813, and continued in charge of the Church in Harrodsburg for twenty-six years, and at New Providence for forty-five years...He was one of the most able and influential ministers of his Church in Kentucky." - The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (1878).
"He was one of the most popular and useful preachers in Kentucky. Sixteen young men studied divinity under him. He was appointed one of the synodical commission in the Cumberland Presbyterian difficulties. Dr. Cleland was withal a diligent student, and wielded his pen with signal ability against the Newlights and Campbellites." - M'Clintock & Strong.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.