Haven, Gilbert. National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant. Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1869. [10707]
Green publisher's cloth, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, tipped in real photo as frontis, small pull at title page hinge. Top page edges gilt, xxiv, 656 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover.
Dedicated to The Reverend Fathers and Brethren of The New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, "The first organized body in American that accepted and proclaimed the duty of immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery, after its announcement by William Lloyd Garrison..."
Twenty-five sermons, including The Higher Law, The Death of Freedom, Caste the Corner-Stone of American Slavery, The Martyr [John Brown], Letters from Camp, The State a Christian Brotherhood, The Church and the Negro, The War and the Millennium, Why Grant Will Succeed [as he advances on Richmond], The Crisis Hour, and The End Near.
Gilbert Haven (1821-1880), b. & d. at Malden, Massachusetts. He was an outspoken Methodist abolitionist who was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He served briefly as a chaplain to the 8th Massachusetts regiment (1861), and was editor of "Zion's Herald" for three years. His absolute position on Negro equality made it impossible for him to exercise his office among predominantly white conferences (even in the North) and so he was appointed bishop over the Negro mission conference of Atlanta.
