Hall, Gordon; Newell, Samuel. The Claims of Six Hundred Millions and the Ability and Duty of the Church respecting them. Andover: Printed for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, by Flagg & Gould, 1818. First Edition. [11401]
Blue printed wrappers, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, sans binding strings and completely loose, back of wrapper tattered. Ink call numbers on front, red ink number stamped on front blank; this comes to us through an historical society library purchase. "Stolen from A. Dean" in brown ink on front and on the title page. 84 pages, number of pages complete; one leaf (pp. 25-26) torn with loss at top inside corner, affecting the last words of seven lines of text. Fair. Pamphlet.
"The is the joint production of the Rev. Messrs. Gordon Hall and Samuel Newell, American Missionaries at Bombay...They address themselves directly to the American churches and Christians, without distinction of denomination; and to all the Churches and Christians in our land, not be any means to the exclusion of others, the solemn, pathetic, and forcible appeal is most fervently recommended." - p. 3.
A passionate appeal for missionaries and missionary funding. Includes a list of the members of the Board, as well as a brief account of the ABCFM missions then in operation: At Bombay, In India; On the island of Ceylon; and at Chickamaugah, among the Cherokee Indians.
Gordon Hall (1784-1826), one of the first missionaries sent to Bombay by the ABCFM. He arrived in Bombay in 1813, and he died there thirteen years later from cholera.
Samuel Newell (1784-1821), Harvard College graduate, studied at Andover, sailed for Calcutta under the auspices of the ABCFM in 1812. He was in Ceylon until 1814, when he was stationed at Bombay. He died there of cholera in 1821.
