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Synopsis

Showing the great claims of foreign missions upon the christian church. by joseph mullens, d.d.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7 x 5 inches. xvi + 262 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements + 8 pp. publisher's list. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders, enclosing gilt decoration on front board. Binder's label of Edmonds and Remnants, London. Some wear to extremities, including at head and tail of spine. Front endpaper worn, half title browned with some neat repairs and foxing of title page and preliminaries, scattered elsewhere; otherwise a very good copy. Stamp of Widcombe Parochial Institute Bath on first free endpaper and signature a head of half title. Joseph Mullens (1820-79) sailed to India as a missionary in 1843 after ordination as a Congregational minister and served in Calcutta for twenty two years on behalf of the London Missionary Society, of which he became Foreign Secretary. In this title he compares the state of religion in London, 'the greatest city which the world has ever yet seen,' with that of Calcutta. In his opening chapter he provides a well observed brief account of of the state of London in particular and England in general, particularly of religion. Following the second chapter, surveying Calcutta, he devotes the rest of the book to a discussion of foreign missions, including their impact on the church at home. A very scarce item.