The Gravel Pit, and Its Lessons. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, ca. 1850. [9456]
Leather spine with marbled boards, backstrip chipped with loss at bottom, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, Baptist Sunday School bookplate, wood-engraved frontispiece, 34 pp., pages a bit dark, one page corner chipped. Good. Hardcover.
A boy of 15 who is hunting partridges on a Sunday afternoon, occasions upon the minister of the local church, who warns him against such wrongdoing. On his way home he stumbles into a deep gravel pit and is injured. He lays injured through the night, and dreams of an encounter with Jesus, who challenges him with the words, "Lovest thou me?" The next day, a group of friends, discussing the sermon recently heard, head out for a picnic, only to discover and rescue the injured boy.