Rail Road to the Millenium
N.P. [American Sunday School Union?], Circa 1860. Quarto, single leaf printed on both sides. A scarce circular by John McCullagh, Superintendent of Missions of the Southern District of the American Sunday School Union. According to Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1900), McCullagh, "when a member of the church of Reverend Thomas Chalmers, in Glasgow, he organized Sunday Schools among the fishermen and coal-miners of Scotland, and subsequently among the Roman Catholics of Connaught, Ireland. In 1834 he emigrated to the United States, and connected himself with the American Sunday School Union as a volunteer, and labored at first among the so-called "bark-peelers" of Sullivan county, NY, and then in southern Illinois; and after 1839, in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1840 he entered regularly into the service of the Sunday School Union, and during the next twelve years he organized schools in seventy-five counties of Kentucky. In 1852 he was relieved of active missionary work, and made superintendent of missions in the south, which post he resigned in 1884." The text of this circular discusses the importance of establishing Sunday Schools in order to save souls, thus hastening in the coming of Jesus on "that day of millenial peace and glory." The circular prints excerpts from reports regarding missionary work in destitute parts of the American South, particularly Kentucky. Undated, but mentions the year 1798 as "62 years ago." Not in OCLC. Chipping and tearing along edges of paper, including a 2 inch tear and a 3.5 inch tear. Item #14269
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