Author: Heman, Humphrey
Title: The Efficacy and Importance of Combined and Persevering Action. Illustrated, in a Sermon, Delivered at New-Haven, Oct. 19, 1814, Before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Good Morals
Description: New-Haven: Sidney's Press, 1815. First edition; 5 1/2 x 9; pp. [1], 4-28 including text to first page and back cover; original hand-sewn printed wraps; deckled page edges; mild uniform age-toning; front cover with a horizontal crinkle through middle; some pages uncut; overall beautifully preserved in very good to near fine condition. Heman Humphrey was the second President of Amherst College and one of the earliest influential figures in the Temperance Movement - long before the American Temperance Society was formally established. His current sermon, based on Genesis, XI. 6, focuses on living and working as a unity, the necessity for framing good penal laws, and the importance of raising children the proper way with no drinking alcohol and no swearing around them and teaching them to believe in and rely on God. Several copies in institutions, this the only one in the trade. Ill.: 0. 2.

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