Humphrey, Heman. The Kingdom of Christ: A Sermon preached before The Annual Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, in Boston, May 29, 1830. Boston: Peirce and Williams, 1830. First Edition. [10511]
Newly sewn into an acid-free wrapper. Removed pamphlet, no wrapper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 36 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world...&c."
Humphrey sets out I. To inquire, wherein the essential difference lies between the kingdom of Christ and the kingdoms of this world; and II. To touch upon the duties, responsibility and rewards of his ministers.
Heman Humphrey, D.D. (1779-1861), born at West Simbury, CT; died at Pittsfield, MA. He graduated from Yale College, in 1805; was pastor of the Congregational Church in Fairfield from 1807 to 1817; and in Pittsfield, MA, from 1817 to 1823. In 1823 Humphrey became the second president of Amherst College, serving the college for 22 years in that capacity. He was a major influence for temperance reform, and a supporter of revivals; he was the author of the influential Revival Sketches and Manual.
