[pamphlet, one of fifteen, with manuscript list of recipients] Messrs. Moody & Sankey, and the Problem of the Times. Being an Article offered to the St. Louis Republican for Thanksgiving Day, and printed now in a few copies for private communication.

Author: 
James F. Mallinckrodt ['Unity'] [Ira David Sankey, Methodist evangelical gospel singer and composer; Dwight Lyman Moody]
Publication details: 
January 1, 1876. St Louis, Missouri: No. 2816 North 12th Street.
£750.00
SKU: 9470

12mo, iv + 8 pp. Stitched. In original blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with minor foxing. In original worn blue wraps, with closed tear to the spinal crease. Title leaf followed by printed limitation leaf: 'No. 4a | This Copy is Inscribed to Prof John Tyndall'. On the inside of the back wrap is a manuscript list headed 'Memo from Mailing account Book', numbered 1 ('Mr Carlyle') to 12 ('Rev H. W. Beecher'). Included are 'R W Emerson', 'H W Longfellow', and at 4, 'Prof Tyndall, Huxley, Proctor, & Mr Spencer' (the last three being 4b, 4c and 4d). 'Mess Moody & Sankey' feature at 6. Mallinckrodt was a Unitarian and free thinker, and this pamphlet, written in a light-hearted, entertaining style, attacks Moody and Sankey and all 'God-ologies': 'Mr. Moody comes to enlighten us on a policy of peace. [...] Hence it appears, - possible, not to say likely, that by the time Messrs. Moody and Sankey get to St. Louis, they will not only have revived one-half of the world but actually converted the other half. [...] there is an inviting hem-continent, almost unappropriated, between the Mississippi and the Pacific. The country holds forty millions, and has capacity, according to the President himself, for five hundred millions.' Reference to Thomas Carlyle as 'the Pope of Literature'. Signed in type at end 'UNITY. | ST. LOUIS, Thanksgiving Day, 1875.' Scarce: no copy on Copac or WorldCat, and the only copy traced at Yale.