Memoirs of a late Officer in the Army of the United States, by an Officer in the same service. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1836. First Edition. [10842]
Blue cloth spine with gilt title and decoration, blue marbled boards, 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches), tight. 69 clean pages, small indent on the last few leaves. Very good. Hardcover.
"Written for the American Sunday-School Union, and Revised by the Committee of Publication."
A true account of an infidel officer in the American army, and his dreadful end. He had been raised in a Christian home, joined the Army and fought in the War of 1812 in the campaign into Canada. He gradually gave up his Christian habits, turned infidel, and drank heavily.
"This case then, shows us the folly and horrors of infidelity. His conversations show its weakness too, and on what miserable pretenses unbelievers try to argue against the truth of God. Yet all the time it was leading Fuller from one sin to another - from disobedience of his father to neglect of prayer, from sinful company to licentiousness, profanity, intemperance, dishonesty - until he may be said to have put an end to his own life by the indulgence of a beastly appetite." - p. 67.
The officer drank himself to death.
