Knapp, Jacob. The Evangelical Harp: A New Collection of Hymns and Tunes, designed for Revivals of Religion, and for Family and Social Worship; containing also, An Essay on Evangelism, by the Compiler. Utica: Bennett, Backus & Hawley, 1845. First Edition. [11185]
Black blind stamped cloth, gilt titles to spine, worn, stained, spine ends chipped and corners exposed, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. 222 pages, complete. Dampstains throughout, with the last 12 leaves darkly stained. Poor. Hardcover.
Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, K1768.
Unnumbered hymns with tunes to page 152; pp. 153-192 are hymns without tunes that are numbered 77-113. The music is in two or three parts with round notes.
Pp. 193-222 is the Essay on Evangelism, in which Knapp, among other things, compares the negative treatment Whitefield received from opposing ministers in the first Great Awakening to the same treatment that he had received.
With an index to the hymns and to the tunes. The tunes were selected and arranged by Charles Ferguson.
"Although brought up in the Episcopal Church, Jacob Knapp gladly forsook it for the Baptists at the time of his conversion. Following graduation from Hamilton College he served pastorates at both Springfield and Watertown, New York. Elder Knapp commenced his full-time itinerant work in 1833. He travelled widely, preached strongly, gained many enemies and not a few friends, claimed many converts, and provoked much suspicion and distrust, especially in the realm of finances. Being narrow in his denominational views, he restricted most of his work to Baptist causes. Knapp was one of the few Baptists engaged in revival ministry in his day. He records several significant movements which occurred under his preaching including the Boston revivals of 1842 and 1860." - Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Biographical and Historical Notices.
Elder Jacob Knapp (1799-1874), "a famous and sometimes controversial Baptist evangelist devoted to revivalism and religious reform. According to Smith, Knapps ministry in the 1830s was principally to rural and small-town communities in New York, where he became known as a chief supporter of Madison University at Hamilton. His first urban success, in union campaigns sponsored by the Baptist churches of Rochester, Baltimore, and Boston, were cut short in 1842 when anti-revival clergymen charged that he wore old clothes in the pulpit to secure a more sympathetic response in the offerings. His supporters hotly contested the accusation, and he was officially cleared. " - Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, written by Himself, p. 100 of the Introduction by John Ernest.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
