Heisler, D. Y. Life-Pictures of "The Prodigal Son." A Gift-Book for the Million: Genial, Searching, and Kind. Philadelphia: Self Published, 1877. Author's Edition. [4914]
Blue cloth, blotchy stains on the boards, spine clean, bright gilt spine titles & emblem on front, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, former owner's signature & ink name stamp on ffep (Sprinkle), 225 pp., clean text, front end papers with math figures in pencil. The book is a little shaken. Good. Hardcover.
The author takes the parable of the prodigal son as the basis for a series of lectures or sermons.
"The following pages are designed as a solemn call from God to the erring and weary ones of the earth, especially to the young and inexperienced." - from the Preface.
Daniel Yost Heisler (1820-1888), German Reformed pastor in Pennsylvania, friend of Dr. Henry Harbaugh, and completed Harbaugh's Fathers of the Reformed Church in Europe and America.