Whiting, Nathan [editor]. The Religious Intelligencer for the year ending May, 1821

Whiting, Nathan [editor]. The Religious Intelligencer for the year ending May, 1821: containing the principal transactions of the various Bible and Missionary Societies, with particular accounts of Revivals of Religion. Vol. V. New Haven: Conducted and Published Weekly by Nathan Whiting, 1820. First Edition. [5436]

Full calf with red leather spine title label, gilt rules to spine, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, rear outer hinge cracked at the top 2 inches, outer edges rubbed with some loss to the surface of the leather. Former owner's signature on the ffep, modern private round emboss stamp on ffep. 845 pp. plus 4 pp. index, foxing. Good. Hardcover.

This series ran from June 1, 1816 to Oct. 7, 1837 and is no. 4518 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "There are some very excellent articles on revival in this periodical."

This volume has reports of revivals in Pleasant Valley, Nassau, Ballston, Providence, Morgan (Ohio), Galway, Concord, Newport, Plainfield, Coventry, New Bedford and Fair Haven, New Haven, Clinton, Dudley, Chelsea Vt., Athens, Bolton, Trumbull Co., Vermont, Byfield, Pittsfield, Coxsakie, Deer Park, Hempstead, Kinderhook. With a Narrative of the State of Religion in the Presbyterian church in Albany, Upper Canada, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Missionary reports includes those of Arkansaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Fegee [sic] Islands, China, Allahabad, Polynesia, Sierra Leone, Burmah, Wyandot, Seneca, to the Jews, New Zealand, Osages, Palestine, Sandwich Islands, South Sea Islands.

Many articles of evangelical doctrine, missions, obituaries, ordinations, poetry, missionary reports, &c.