Author: ABBEY, R. (RICHARD)
Title: Christian Cradlehood; Or, Religion in the Nursery
Description: Nashville, TN: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1881. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 4" x 6") . The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "Richard Abbey (November 16, 1805 – October 23, 1891) was an American Methodist minister. Richard Abbey was born on November 16, 1805 in Genesee County. In 1825 he removed to Natchez, Miss, and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844, and was identified with the movement separating that denomination into its northern and southern branches. He published Letters to Bishop Green on Apostolic Succession and End of the Apostolic Succession (1853) ; Creed of All Men (1855) ; Ecclesiastical Constitution (1856) ; Church and Ministry (1859) ; Diuturnitv (1866) ; Ecce Ecclesia, an answer to Ecce Homo (1868) ; The City of God and the Church-Makers (1872). In 1858 he was elected financial secretary of the Southern Methodist publishing house. " (this book is on how to raise children in Christian "manner", he especially stresses obedience, but does not adhere to the idea of hitting / whipping children as a means of obtaining obedience.. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Religion R. Abbey Religious Education Morals Children Obedience Training


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