Addressed to those who Profess to have a Regard for the Christian Name
The present is a really moving three page autograph letter signed “In the service of the Gospel
The Society meet in May next - I will not say what my present ideas are but only that I shall act as circumstances & emergencies may dictate - resigning up myself wholly to Providence which never leads wrong - The enterprise if we engagein it is serious - tho no tmore so than our daily professional duties - And your proposition ifit do no other good may do this to make me think how litle I have exerted myself to win souls to truth & religion
An important artifact connecting two important voices for religious and political liberty and toleration in the emerging American documentary landscape
1915 WORLD WAR I CHAPLAIN. Inter-Leaved New Testament Used by War Hero Chaplain During the War. Irvingite Addressed to those who ProfessA fascinating inter leaved New Testament with somewhere north of a 1,000 textual notes, some expansive, ranging throughout the entire New Testament. The Bible belonged to, and the notes are in the hand of, highly decorated Chaplain, Rev. John Reay. Because of Reay's timeline, it seems likely that the Bible was with him in France during his service during World War I. The Bible itself was bound without a title page, probably lost in France before