Codman, John. The Importance of Spiritual Knowledge : A Sermon, delivered before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, in the First Church, Boston, November 3, 1825. With the Report of the Select Committee. Cambridge: From the University Press - Hilliard and Metcalf, 1825. First Edition. [12117]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 43 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Proverbs 19:2, "That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good."
The sermon considers two points, 1. What that knowledge is, the want of which is so prejudicial to the soul; and 2. To attempt to point out some of the destructive consequences of this baneful ignorance.
The Report of the Select Committee contains, in addition to a list of funds, reports on each new rural congregation, or "Missions in New Settlements."
Then missionary reports of work among the following Indian tribes: Stockbridge; Indians at Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Narraganset; the Passamaquoddy Indians; and the Penobscot Indians.
John Codman (1782-1847), Congregational minister, born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1802 and completed his studies in Edinburgh. He preached for a year in Great Britain and returned to America, being ordained pastor of the church in Dorchester. In 1834 he was delegate to the Congregational Union of England and Wales, held in England.
