Messler, Abraham. The Importance of Cherishing Domestic Feeling in our Church: A Sermon preached before the Classis of New Brunswick at their Semi-Annual Session at Grigstown, April 2d, 1845, and published by their order. New-York: Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1845. First Edition. [9355]
Green printed wrapper, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, 40 clean pp. Very good. Pamphlet.
A sermon on the text Psalm 137: 5 & 6. Reasons for and exhortations to embrace the concept of the church as a family of believers in Christ, who love and help one another.
A late printing for Daniel Fanshaw (1788-1860), for many years the printer for the American Tract Society. His contract with the Society ended in 1844, and his printing business dwindled away after that.
Abraham Messler (1800-1882), b. Whitehouse, NJ; d. Somerville, NJ. "He was graduated at Union in 1821, and at the New Brunswick seminary in 1824, and preached in Montville, New Jersey, Ovid, New York, and North street, New York city. He was pastor of the Reformed Dutch churches in Pompton Plains and in Montville from 1829 till 1832, and became subsequently the pastor of the churches of this denomination in Raritan and Somerville, New Jersey. Rutgers gave him a degree of D.D. in 1843, and he was elected a trustee of that college in 1845." - Appletons.