Cornelius, Elias. A Sermon delivered in the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass. Sept. 25, 1823, at the Ordination of the Rev. Edmund Frost, as a Missionary to the Heathen: and the Rev. Messrs. Aaron W. Warner, Ansel D. Eddy, Nathan W. Fiske, Isaac Oakes, and George Sheldon, as Evangelists. Boston: Printed by Crocker and Brewster, 1823. First Edition. {12118]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 32 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Exodus 14:15, "Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward." The author presents seven reasons why Christians should "go forward" in the work of evangelism and in missionary endeavors.
Elias Cornelius (1794-1832), b. Somers, New York; d. Salem, Massachusetts. He was educated at Yale College and at the Yale Divinity School, licensed to preach in 1816 and appointed an agent of the American Board of Foreign Commissioners. He traveled the eastern seaboard in support of the ABCFM, preaching and raising money for missionary work among the American Indians of the South. He was the first reported white person to be shown the Etowah Indian Mounds by a group of Cherokee Indians. In 1819 be was appointed Associate Pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, Massachusetts, and in 1831 was made secretary of the ABCFM.
