1848 LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Letter from Arthur Tidman Regarding a New Applicant for Missionary Work BaptistWonderful little piece of London Missionary Society historical ephemera from the Foreign Secretary of the LMS. Dr. Arthur Tidman [1792] was original trained as a medical doctor, but sensing a call to the ministry pastored three churches, including the last, his longest tenure, at Barbicon Chapel in London. He served there from 1828 until his death in 1868. During the final years of his pastorate, he served as the foreign secretary of the London
Done into English Heroicall verse
presumably interested in missionary work
Upon Occasion of Desiring the Assistance of Our Brethren of Scotland in this Warre
Good + to very good in original decorative cloth
I have made arrangements for spending the ten days of the week the second Sabbath of October in the entire
God's Way of Holiness
Stead was warmly evangelical
& grant you the desires of your heart
Christ Our Example of His Intercourse with the World by Caroline Fry
From the very beginning of his own ministry
by the Parishioner
A wonderful first edition of one of the pithiest of all the puritans