The Youth's Miscellany, for the Spiritual Advancement of the Young of all Classes; By a Clergyman. Newburyport: Huse & Bragdon, Printers, 1851. First Edition. [11181]
Black cloth over thin card, title in gilt to front, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, "Dr. T. A. Haley" in purple ink on the ffep. 96 pp. Dark stains on the last several leaves. Back cover stained. Fair. Stiff wraps.
A book intended to encourage and strengthen the ministry of "Sabbath" schools, with stories and accounts of Christian instruction and moral tales.
"There is no department of labor in the work of Christ, that promises a richer harvest than the Sabbath School. Already it has received the Divine Sanction, by being blessed to the good of thousands for this and the future life." - Author's Preface.
Attributed at WorldCat to "D. P. Pike."
Daniel Prescott Pike (1815-1887), b. Hampton Falls, NH; d. Newburyport, MA. Rev. Pike was the pastor of the Christian Church in Newburyport (1840-1887) and the editor of the Herald of Gospel Liberty (1842-1867). He was remembered as a Temperance worker who gave hundreds of lectures on the subject, collecting pledges. Pike was also an outspoken abolitionist from 1833 to the time of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. See True Republican, January 11, 1888, (Sycamore, Illinois).
"In 50 years preached 7,800 sermons; gave more than 1,000 temperance addresses; solemnized more than 1,000 marriages; officiated at more than 1,000 funerals; and baptized more than 1,000 converts, 97 at one time, April, 1858." - Carter, The Native Ministry of New Hampshire (1906), p. 310.
