Important anti-slavery politician on the run up to the Civil War and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln
who experienced a period of extensive revival under his ministry
An exceptional example of a young person's religious diary of the time
An Explanation of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism
Searching for a single mind
1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Spurgeon Important anti-slavery politician on theRather scarce Civil War era periodical. The Student and Schoolmate had initially been two separate periodicals [The Student; The Schoolmate], but joined together in 1858, under the editorship of William T. Adams, i. e. Oliver Optic. The new format provided both practical help for student and teacher in a final section of each month's paper, and fiction and non fiction narratives, heavily illustrated, for the bulk of it, focusing on history, morality,