Wise, Daniel. The Children's Centenary Memorial, or Exhibition Book. New York: N. Tibbals, 1866. First Edition. [10686]
Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine & front, a little edge-wear and soil to the binding, 6 x 4 inches. Small oval portrait as Wise as frontispiece, offsetting of the same to the title page. 117 clean pp., all page edges stained red, publisher's catalogue, a couple of open hinges - one at the tp and then after the catalogue, with nothing detached. Good. Hardcover.
"We have prepared this little volume of dialogues, addresses and poems, written by the best Sunday School authors of our denomination, as the basis of you preparation for the Sunday School Centenary Celebrations." - Preface.
A collection of material by various authors celebrating the centennial of American Methodism.
A few examples:
Our Country and Our Church, by Rev. J. H. Vincent;
The Infancy of Methodism, by Mrs. Robinson;
A Hundred Years Ago, the Dawn of American Methodism, by Mrs. Robinson;
An Hour with Jesse Lee, or Methodism in New England - A Dialogue, by Rev. B. K. Pierce;
Western Methodism, by Rev. A. D. Field;
Our Sunday School Union, by Daniel Wise, D. D.
