Bardwell, Horaito
Memoir of Rev. Gordon Hall, A.M. , One of the First Missionaries of the Amer. Board of Comm. For for. Missions, at Bombay
Andover / New York, Flagg, Gould and Newman / J. Leavittoratio BardwellPublished by Flagg, Gould and Newman, Andover, 1834, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a title exceedingly scarce in the trade; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in a short 12mo format, bound in publisher's pebbly brown cloth over board, mildly soiled, moderately rubbed, abraded paper title label to spine. xii, 2-260 pp. Fine black-and-white engraving of the denouement of the Good Reverend "At the End of His Labors" in India, tissue-protected. Moderately toned endpapers, else clean and unmarked, mild foxing throughout. Contains a full page frontis with tissue guard, a signature or two very slightly protruding. A fair + copy of a scarce title. David M. Stowe's biography of him says that Gordon Hall (1784-1826), Pioneer Missionary in India, was born in Tolland, Massachusetts, and graduated with highest honors from Williams College in 1808. "Entering Andover Theological Seminary in 1810, he joined the group of students whose enthusiasm for missionary service led to the formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" that same year (A.B.C.F.M.). Hall, Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott, and Luther Rice "sailed from Philadelphia on February 18, reaching Calcutta on August 8" but were refused entry by the authorities of the British East India Company, ended up in Bombay and thus began the first American missionary station overseas. He mastered a local language, married, evangelized, and then provided medical services. After two of their children died, his wife and remaining two sons returned to America in 1825; he then died the following year of cholera (Stowe).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
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