Slie, David. The Holy of Holies, or World's Tri-Daily Concert of Prayer; to which are added One Hundred Reasons for Personal Worship; likewise, Requests for the several States - North and South; Also, Spiritual Poetry, entitled, An Hour With God. Rochester, N. Y.: Press of A. Strong & Co., Democrat and American Office, 1861. Fifth Edition - Sixth Thousand. [10540]
Purple pebble cloth decorated in gilt & blind, spine faded, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, all page edges gilt, tight. Lithograph portrait of Slie executed by C. E. Lewis of Buffalo. Separate full title page for One Hundred Reasons. 260, 49, 17, 21 clean pages. Good. Hardcover.
An ambitious attempt to start a world-wide prayer movement. Includes prayer requests from many states and territories, a prayer for each day of the year, reasons for prayer, &c.
Rev. David Slie (1800-1883), itinerant revivalist, at one time a member of the Black River Association of western New York. In 1835 the Presbytery of Angelica chastised him for acting independently and for loosening the strictness of Presbyterian doctrine. We find references with Rev. Slie working with both Congregational and Presbyterian churches. In 1843 he was the secretary for a Free Congregational society that had separated from the Presbyterian Church in Sodus, New York, over the issue of slavery.
