Sylvester, J. B. Burnell, the Green Mountain Boy: A Narrative for Young People. Albany: Published for the Author | Weed, Parsons and Company, 1870. [10901]
Green cloth, edge-worn, frayed at the ends and tips, gilt to spine faded, 6 3/4 x 41/2 inches. ix, [1], 363 pages, light foxing. Good. Hardcover.
"The design of this volume is to illustrate, in the life of a Green Mountain Boy, some of the great truths revealed in God's word. Among these truths may be mentioned, in particular, the importance of prayer; the fatherly care of God; Satan as the inveterate foe of the human race; the ruinous tendency of sin, and the mercy of God in Jesus Christ."
The true story of a Vermont boy, the son of a drunkard, and how God saved him. The author was a Methodist minister.
