The Pastor's Stories: Moral Sketches for Youth. Boston: Strong & Brodhead, 1848. [10746]
Faded cloth, boards blind stamped, gilt to spine, edges worn with some fraying, 6 x 4 inches. Unsigned lithograph illustration as frontispiece, with tissue guard. 176 pp. with publisher's catalogue, foxing, pencil scribbles on the end papers, missing the first front free end paper. Fair. Hardcover.
Two stories: 1. James: or the Useful Boy; this has an account of James rescuing a drowning companion, and 2. Edward: or the Bad Boy; Edward is a thief and a liar and finally retreats with bad companions on a steamboat down the Mississippi to the South West.
Attributed at WorldCat to Abel Stevens.
Abel Stevens, D.D. (1815-1897), b. Philadelphia; d. San Jose, California. Stevens was a Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and historian. He was educated at Wesleyan University; and entered the New England Conference in 1834; served one year as agent of the Wesleyan University, and the following year was stationed in Boston. In 1848 he became editor of Zion’s Herald, where he remained for twelve years. In 1852 when The National Magazine was commenced, he was appointed editor. In 1860 he became corresponding editor of The Methodist, and retained this position till 1874. In later years he traveled extensively and was for a time pastor of the Union Church in Geneva, Switzerland. His writings were very widely circulated, and include “Church Polity,” “The Great Reform,” “History of Methodism,” “History of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” “Centenary of American Methodism,” etc.
