Greensword, M. P. The Conflict between Truth and Error And Other Poems, together forming a Commentary on the Bible. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: W. F. Boshart, Book and Job Printer, 1881. First Edition. [10864]
Half sheep with purple pebble cloth boards, spine & page edges gilt, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, light scuffing. Inscriptions on the ffep: "Mrs. Thomas Jillard, With the compliments of the Author. Presented to Henry & Mary Cread, by Mrs. Jillard, Nov. 15 1925." Small real photo "Sarah Jillard, 1925" laid in. 216 clean pages with Index of First Lines; tight. Good. Hardcover.
Poems intended to teach the contents of the Bible. It appears to us to present orthodox evangelical views, with asides promoting Temperance and the acceptance of the Negro race as brothers. His view of the Revelation is that of chronological development, with the beast with seven heads and ten horns being the Papal church.
Mathias P. Greensword, M.D. (1825-1899), b. Porto Rico. Greensword was an alumni of New York University and was house surgeon in the Charity City Hospital, NYC 1857-8 and a surgeon with the Confederate Army (1862-1865). He was afterwards at Poughkeepsie, NY, and a member of the Dutchess County Medical Society until expelled for unethical practices. He is listed in the Poughkeepsie City Directory for 1973 as an "eye and ear physician." He was remembered as a "deceased member" of the American Bible Society in the Bible Society Record of 1899. He "became unethical in his practice and his name was dropped from the roll." - Guy Carlton Bayley, An Historical Address Delivered before the Dutchess County Medical Society...with a Record of the Medical Profession of Dutchess County from 1740 to 1906 (1906).
Greensword also wrote Twenty Years in the Tropics (1897). He is named a “Reverend” in this title but we have not yet found other indications of it.
