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8412. [Christian Connexion] The | Christian Register, | for the year of our Lord | 1836: | Being Bissextile or Leap Year; and, till | July fourth, the sixtieth of | American Independence. | Published under the Direction of the | Christian General Book Association. | By John Clark, | Book Agent for the Association. | Sold at the Christian Book-Room, Union Mills, N. Y. | and by the Christian Preachers Generally. | Union Mills: | Published by the Author. | 1836.
String-bound pamphlet with the strings now gone, pamphlet is loose with 12 leaves (24 pages), complete. 7 x 4 ˝. The folded edge is tattered with some leaves separated.
Rare. OCLC number assigned (82686233), but no holdings are listed on WorldCat. The NYS library at Albany lists one in their archive of NYS almanacs.
Clark notes that “repeated expressions in favor of such a Register and Almanac to embrace a summary view of the rise and progress of the people called Christians, induced the Committee of the Christian General Book Association, at their Annual Meeting at Union Mills, N. Y. on the 8th of Oct. 1835, to pass the following: - “Resolved, That we appoint John Clark (our Book Agent) to edit and print an Almanac to be entitled “The Christian Register,” in a cheap plain form, as the commencement of a regular series.”
I believe that this was the only year issued. I am happy to amend this if anyone has further information.
Dates in the almanac include notices of events important to the movement, such as the death of Lorenzo Dow; the organization of the church at Piermont, N.H., by Elder Jones; the birth of Elias Smith, etc. There are brief histories of the origins of the movement in the South, New England, and in the West. There is a list of 17 “religious opinions we think would be approved by the majority of our brethren,” taken from the Gospel Luminary. There is an article on The Government of the Church and one on The Support of the Ministry. John Clark includes an advert for his printing business, and an advert for The Christian Palladium, Joseph Badger, Editor.
$850.00 SOLD October, 2008
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