Clark, Sereno D. The New England Ministry Sixty Years Ago: The Memoir of John Woodbridge, D. D. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. [10754]
Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, edge-wear, 2 inch tear bottom of front joint, front end paper hinge partly open. xii, 473 generally clean pp., some foxing on the first and last several leaves. Fair. Hardcover.
Title continues: His Method of Work; His Great Success in Powerful Revivals, in High Moral and Educational Influences; His Theological Views, and the Theological Controversies of His Time, Beginning with the "New Departure" of Stoddard.
No. 1108 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "Woodbridge was a revivalist of considerable power."
John Woodbridge (1784-1869), b. Southampton, Mass.; d. Waukegan, Illinois, at the home of his daughter. Woodbridge descended from a long line on nonconformist clergymen, both in England and New England. He was form many years the pastor at Hadley, Massachusetts. Many chapters include information about revivals that took place under his ministry. His views were that of the Old School and some of his writings were intended to expose the errors of the New.
