[Belcher, Joseph]. Memoir of Robert Haldane, and James Alexander Haldane; with Sketches of their Friends, and of the Progress of Religion in Scotland and on the Continent of Europe in the former half of the Nineteenth Century. New York: American Tract Society, c. 1858. [12506]
Black pebble publisher's cloth, boards stamped in blind, spine in gilt, a little edge-wear and light stains, 7 1/2 x 4 23/4 inches, tight. 1877 gift inscription in pencil on the ffep; final free end page (blank) torn with some loss. Fine steel-engraved portrait of James A. Haldane with tissue guard as frontispiece; 278 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
No. 425 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "The Haldane brothers were mightily used of God in revivals both on the Continent and in Scotland." - see no. 2527.
"This volume is not a mere abridgment of the Memoirs of Messrs. Robert and James Alexander Haldane, by Alexander Haldane, Esq., of London, son of the last-named gentleman, but a work written for the American Tract Society...It is hoped the work may tend to increase the piety and zeal of Christians, and to prove to others that evangelical religion lies at the foundation of all that is useful and happy." - J. B., Philadelphia, 1858.
Roberts attributes this work to Joseph Belcher, D.D.
The compiler or author is Joseph Belcher (1794-1859), an English Baptist and sometime secretary of the Baptist Union, who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1844, where he was pastor of a church. A prolific author, he contributed over 200 books to the press, including a biography of George Whitefield, the Baptist Pulpit of the United States, and a History of the Religious Denominations in the United States. He was also the editor of the Works of the Rev. Robert Hall.
