WILSON, J[oshua] L.

Four Propositions Sustained Against the Claims of the American Home Missionary Society

Cincinnati: Published for the Author / Robinson & Fairbank--Printers, 1831. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 19pp. Large dampstain to title page (serving as upper cover) only slightly bleeding through to following leaf, light foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription of a Samuel Chandler to title page.

Tract published in the year following the dissolution of the Presbyterian Church's Plan of Union, which proposed uniting the frontier missionary efforts of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in the early years of the 19th century. Wilson, the Calvinist pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, was a vocal opponent of the plan, and here argues that the American Home Missionary Society, as a civil institution, "by interference and importunity...disturbs the peace and injures the prosperity of the Presbyterian Church." See anb.org. SABIN 104671.

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