Author: Pierpont, John.
Title: On Substitutes for Religion. Printed for the American Unitarian Association.
Description: Boston: Gray and Bowen, 141 Washington Street, 1832. 1832. - Octavo, printed self-wraps, removed from a larger collection. 23 pages. There are stains to the title with a large, dark stain to the rear blank & the last page of the text. There are areas of staining to the top & front edges of the remaining leaves. The title is detached, its bottom edge is chipped & there is an owner's ink name on its top edge. Good only.

First edition. [American Unitarian Association Tracts]1st series, No. 56.

The substitutes for religion include such stratagems as making good resolutions, making a show of professing religion, and observing the rites and ceremonies of religion without actually carrying out the righteous deeds owed to God by a Christian.

John Pierpont [1785-1866] was an American teacher, lawyer and merchant who began to serve as a Congregational minister at the Hollis Street Church in Boston in 1819. He ran as a Liberty Party candidate for Massachusetts governor in the 1840s, and as a Free Soil Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1850. His best-known literary work was "Airs of Palestine: A Poem" [1816]. His poems were frequently recited at anti-slavery meetings and his "Anti-Slavery Poems" were published by Oliver Johnson, a leading anti-slavery publisher and associate of Garrison, in 1843.

Uncommon. Good .

Keywords: RELIGION; CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER; POET; JOHN PIERPONT; AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION TRACT; ON SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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