Skinner, Thomas H. Progress, the Law of Missionary Work: A Sermon preached in Rochester, N. Y., Sept., 1843, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1843. First Edition. [11046]
Printed wrappers, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, short separation at the top of the fold, 48 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Philippians 3:13, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." Skinner treats with eight reasons to expect success in missionary work, and answers some objections.
Thomas H. Skinner (1791-1871), born in North Carolina and graduated at Princeton in 1809. He became co-pastor with Dr. Janeway in the Second Church, Philadelphia. Skinner adopted New School views, which led to his separation from Janeway in 1816, when he became the pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. In 1832 he accepted the call as professor of Sacred Theology in Andover, in 1835 returned to the pastorate at Mercer Street Church, New York, where he labored for 13 years. He then became professor of Sacred Theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
