CHRISTIAN RETROSPECT and REGISTER - Mid Century Review, 1851 Robert Baird

Description: CHRISTIAN RETROSPECT and REGISTER - Mid Century Review, 1851 Robert Baird TITLE: The Christian retrospect and register: a summary of the scientific, moral and religious progress of the first half of the xixth century. AUTHOR: Robert Baird PUBLISHER: M.W. Dodd New York DATE: 1851 DESCRIPTION: xii, [13]-420 p. 20 cm. 7 7/16 x 5 Contents: Part I. i. Political changes of the first half of the nineteenth century; ii. Progress of political liberty during the first half of the nineteenth century; iii. Progress of education--common-schools, colleges, etc.; iv. Freedom of the press-its progress--newspapers and other forms of periodical information and literature; v. Historical sketch of science in the first half of the nineteenth century; vi. Applied science; vii. Progress in the arts of intercommunication: steam navigation, railroads; viii. Social progress in the first half of the nineteenth century [chapters v-viii by Benjamin N. Martin, of Albany] -- Part II. i. Enlargement of Christendom during the first half of the nineteenth century; ii. Progress of religious liberty; iii. Progress of evangelical Christianity; iv. Societies for the diffusion of the Scriptures; v. Societies for the circulation of religious books; vi. Societies for home evangelization; vii. Sunday-school societies; viii. Educational societies; ix. Temperance reformation; x. American Colonization Society; xi. Evangelization of papal countries; xii. Missionary efforts previous to XIXth century; xiii-xxvii. Missionary societies: SPG, Baptist, CMS, Methodist, Basle, ABCFM,Episcopal, Presbyterian, smaller American, for Jews; xxviii. Conclusion and summary -- Appendix -- Index -- After agreeing to launch a series of annual summaries (none of which appeared), Baird received `an earnest application.to us to prepare a preliminary volume, which should give a review of what had been done during the first fifty years of this century.' (p. iii-iv) CONDITION: VERY GOOD. Covers fresh with light rubbing to tips, and caps rubbed away. Hinges and joints clean and without trouble. Foxing, especially in preliminaries, and light and mostly marginal elsewhere. Signed in pencil A. Benedict. BINDING: Brown publisher's cloth. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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