1821 CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR. Second Great Awakening - Insane Asylums - Hawaii - Choctaw Indians &c.

A superb volume of The Christian Spectator with primary resource material related to all manner of interesting subjects, including Hawaii, the Second Great Awakening, Native Americans, Slavery and the Colonization Society of Liberia, etc.  Contents include: On Using the World and Not Abusing It; Liberality of the Choctaw Indians; Missions of the Moravians at Labrador [Okkak]; Revival of Religion in New Haven [Excellent account of the Revival at Yale]; Extensive Review of the Memoirs of Henry Martyn; Professor Everett’s Definition of a Christian; An Address Occasioned by an Instance of Self Murder [Suicide]; Review of Pamphlets on the Unitarian Controversy [Extensive Series]; Correspondence from Mr. Whitney of the Sandwich Island Mission [ Hawaii ]; Letter of Tamoree – King of Atooi to Rev. Dr. Worcester [Hawaii]; Letter from Charlotte Tapoolee – Queen of Atooi – Hawaii; On the Hebrew Vowel Points; A Sabbath among the Tuscarora Indians; A Narrative of the Revival of Religion within the Bounds of the Presbytery of Albany [Extensive Review]; Review of the Works of President Jonathan Edwards in Eight Volumes; A Retreat for the Insane [on opening of Asylums for the “maniac” etc.; extensive]; On the Revival at Troy, New York; Extensive Obituary of Thomas Scott; On Book Stealing; Establishment of the Printing Press in Asia; On John Calvin and Servetus; Is the Doctrine of the Future State of Rewards and Punishment Taught in the Old Testament?; On the Character of Melchisedec; On the Origin and Celebration of Christmas; On the American Colonization Society [Slavery, Liberia]; Religion among Slaves; The Great Indian Council; Religion among the Seamen; etc. The Christian Spectator. Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. For the Year 1821. New-Haven, Published by S. Converse. 1821. 671pp. A good copy in original half leather, rubbed with head of spine lifted from block at the top rear; else generally clean and solid aside from some moderate scattered foxing.