Fuller, C. M. A Selection of Hymns from the Most Approved Authors: particularly designed to be used in, and for the promotion of, Revivals of Religion, In Christian Conference Meetings. Together with the Articles of Faith & Church Covenant, of the Baptist Church. Skaneateles, [New-York]: John Greves, Printer, 1831. (First Edition). [12462]
Full brown leather with a plain spine, 10.5 x 6.5 cm, (4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches), small chips at th eends with a few small worm holes in the backstrip, corners rounded, tight. The single front free end paper (blank) is soiled and a bit edge-tattered; lacks both the rear free end papers and the rear pastedown. [i]-viii, [1]-216 pp., counted and complete. Some light foxing; many creased corners. Good. Hardcover.
Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, Fo1933. WorldCat with only one location. WorldCat references have his first name as "Cyrenus," but the Preface in this edition has "Cyrenius."
167 hymns total, words only; the Articles of Faith & Church Covenant are pp. (206)-216.
The author was the pastor of the Baptist Church in Elbridge, Onondaga Co., New York, within the "Burned Over District" of the Finney revivals. This first edition is mentioned in the Cayuga Association Minutes of 1831. - see Starr Fo1933.
Cyrenius Metcalf Fuller (1791-1865), b. Grafton, Vermont; d. Darien, Wisconsin. Fuller's parents were Congregationalist, but in 1813 he was baptized by immersion; he was licensed to preach in 1814, and ordained by the Baptist Church in Dorset, Vermont, in 1818. He remained as pastor there until 1827, when he accepted a call to the Baptist Church in Elbridge, New York, just west of Syracuse. After 12 years of ministry in that place, he became pastor of the congregation at Pike, New York.
"In 1843 he entered the service of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and held this position until 1861. he traveled as a financial agent in twenty-six States of the Union, and extensively in the British possessions, - in all about 120,000 miles...His ministry was pre-eminently useful. While a settled pastor he baptized about 1000 persons into the churches...He did much in bringing the work of home missions prominently before the Baptist denomination. He was highly esteemed among the ministers and churches, not only for his works' sake, but also for his personal virtues and character." - Cathcart, The Baptist Encyclopedia (1881).
