The Infidel Son and Christian Mother; Written for the American Sunday-School Union, and revised by the Committee of Publication. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1842. [10593]
Brown cloth spine with marbled paper boards, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, 76 pp., one front hinge a bit loose, some pencil scribbles & smudges to the pages. Good. Hardcover.
The copyright is 1842 but it is a later printing, with the ASSU being at 1122 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia from 1857 to 1867, and at 375 Broadway, NY, from 1857 to 1860 (both addresses are on the title page). This book was printed between 1857 and 1860.
The anonymous author writes the preface from Boston, October, 1842. He says that this is not a work of fiction, but a true account. "There is just enough concealment of names and dates, and perhaps hardly enough colouring and trivial incident thrown in, to spare the feelings of one or two dear friends still surviving...The parts of the work most likely to be distrusted, viz. the tale of the organ and the philosophical discussion with the dying man, are literal facts, in the life of the same individual. The conversation occurred in one of the first years of my ministry, and is given nearly in the very words, and with as minute a delineation of the circumstances as could be expected."
