[Morse, Jedidiah]. The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United, for the year ending June 1, 1809. Volume I. New Series. Conducted by an Association of Friends to Evangelical Truth; under the Patronage of the Massachusetts, Hampshire, Berkshire, Maine, and Rhode Island Missionary Societies. Boston: Farrand, Mallory, and Co., 1809. First Edition. [5025]
Leather spine & corners, most of the marbled paper missing from the boards, joints good, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Recent owner's signature on ffep, viii., 576 pp., tight. Good. Hardcover.
This publication had several names. It was The Panoplist, (or the Christian's Armoury) 1803-1808; The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine (1808-1817); and The Panoplist and Missionary Herald (1818-1820).
The series is no. 4113 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "This periodical has numerous accounts of revivals."
Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), orthodox Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, founded The Panoplist (1805), a periodical to combat the growing Unitarianism of New England and elsewhere. He was interested in missionary work among the Indians, his visits to various tribes resulting in the important Report to the Secretary of War …on Indian Affairs (1822).