[Omaha]: Printed and Distributed by the Nebraska Information Bureau, [1928]. An anti-Al Smith publication courtesy of the Nebraska Klan (operating here as the innocuously named Nebraska Information Bureau) published in the wake of Smith's rebuttal to Charles Marshall's "An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith," which was published..... More
Asbury Park, N. J. Schuyler Press, [191-]. An account of the near-death experience of the Irish-born Presbyterian minister, William Tennent (1705-1777) who spent three days in "suspended animation" with most of his friends and relatives believing him dead. After regaining consciousness, Tennent described visiting a heavenly realm filled with beauty..... More
New York: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, [1972]. This issue of IFCO News focuses on liberation struggles in Namibia, Malcolm X Liberation University, George Jackson and criminal justice in the U.S., organizing Chicanos in South Texas, and the World Council of Churches' Program to Combat Racism. It also includes a...... More
Blackwood, N. J. Eric C. Peters. A pamphlet compiled and published by Eric C. Peters on the nature of the Biblical "beast," which includes "Symbolism of the Four Beasts of Daniel Seven" by Rev. Joseph Tanner and "The Attendant Beast of Revelation 13" by Rev. E. P. Cachemaille. Peters was..... More
Littleton, N.H. Courier Printing Co., 1910. This manual begins with a brief history of the Congregational Church in Bath beginning in 1791. followed by the church's Constitution adopted by vote on March 15, 1910. The Constitution consists of ten Articles outlining the church's covenant, doctrine, membership requirements, officers and committees..... More
[New York]: Woman's Synodical Committee of Home Missions in the Synod of New York, [1891]. Includes a list of officers and members of the various New York presbyteries; minutes of the committee's meeting held on Oct. 21, 22, 1891; Ninth Annual Report by Mrs. George C. Yeisley; Report of the..... More
New York: Bookstores of Samuel Wood / Mahlon Day / Daniel Cooledge, [182-]. A small religious tract that was apparently first published in 1819 by the Tract Association of Friends. According to WorldCat, this edition was published in 1833, although there is no date listed. String-bound wrappers (7" x 4..... More
Wichita, Kansas: Defenders Tract Committee, [1939]. A tract by Gerald Winrod's publishing house urging Catholics and Protestants to unite in their opposition to Communism. Much of the text is in response to the Rev. Keith Brooks and his "leftwing mouthpiece Prophecy" that supported Reds during the Spanish Civil War. Tri-fold..... More
[New York]: [Christ's Mission], [ca. 1945]. A tract reprinting an article that originally appeared in L. H. Lehmann's Converted Catholic magazine on Catholicism's subversive teachings on purgatory. Singe page folded, [4] pp. A near fine copy. More
Boston: Sold by Hilliard, Gray, and Co. and by Bowles and Dearborn, 1828. Second Edition. A pamphlet by the Federalist lawyer John Lowell (1769-1840) on the "Orthodox" party’s attempt to use property law to bypass the evolving religious protections of the Massachusetts Constitution. Lowell decries the "ingenious attempt" of the..... More
Milan, Ill. The Rail Splitter Press. On New York Governor Al Smith's participation in the political assassination of former Albany Governor William Sulzer due to his defiance of the Charles Murphy-led Tammany Hall machine. Reprinted in an atttmpe to sabotage Smith's successful 1926 gubernatorial campaign. Stapled, photo-illustrated, newsprint wrappers, 16..... More
Pasadena, California: Ambassador College Press, ©1968. An alarmist pamphlet on rising crime rates due to moral degeneracy and the behavior of black militants, hippies, and wayward youth. Solutions to this epidemic include a return to Christian values, parental discipline, a reliance on the police, and vigilance. Many color photographs and..... More
Pasadena: Ambassador College Press, 1968. A Christian perspective on the hippie subculture and its misguided focus on dropping out, drug use, and political demonstrations. Ambassador College was founded in Pasadena in 1947 by the radio evangelist Herbert Armstrong who was head of the influential Worldwide Church of God. Stapled, illustrated..... More
Cincinnati: Published for the Proprietor, 1867. [Second Edition stated, but First Edition]. A foundational text in the development of nachash theology during the 19th century, Ariel’s pamphlet, The Negro: What Is His Ethnological Status?, rejected the conventional Hamitic interpretation (the idea that black people descended from Ham and were therefore..... More
Chicago: Independent Fundamental Churches of America, [194-?]. "Secretism, whether found in the lodge, the college fraternity or the Ku Klux Klan, is a system which the Evil One is using to blind the eyes of many to the truth as it is in Christ." Small format, stapled wrappers, 20 pp..... More
New York: Christ's Mission, Inc, 1952. The controversial Christian professor and administrator argues against the Catholic belief that the Biblical Peter was a Pope or that he had successors found in today's Roman Catholic church. Bales was associated with Harding College (now University) and Harding President George Benson. He was..... More
Philadelphia: Patriot Publishing Co., 1913. First edition. A series of addresses delivered by Rev. Augustus E. Barnett from his Reformed Episcopal Church of Our Redeemer located at 1617 Oxford Street in Philadelphia. Barnett outlines the doctrinal divide between Catholicism and Protestantism and investigates the Protestant approach to the Papacy, priesthood..... More
Chicago: Frederick L. Chapman & Co., 1901. A single issue of this interdenominational Christian social gospel newspaper edited by deaf cartoonist and caricaturist Frank Beard who was the paper’s principal illustrator. Founded in the 1890s and published by the Frederick L. Chapman Publishing Co. in Chicago, the paper advocated social..... More
Omaha: America's Answer, 1974. First Printing. The pastor of the Church of the National Message in Omaha condemns America's lax approach to criminality and compares God's law as outlined in the Bible versus man's. Bell endorses capital punishment for murder, rape, homosexuality, adultry, perjury, kidnapping, criminal negligence costing someone's life..... More
Washington, D. C. Privately Printed, 1920. An esoteric book merging Judaism, Christianity, astrology and astronomy in the attempt to define man's spiritual aspirations. Also included are two large folding charts designed and drawn by the author depicting man (Neptune) in the cosmos. One measures 20" x 35", the other 20"..... More
Portland, Oregon: The Booth-Clibborn Book Concern, 1936. A pamphlet by the Pentecostal minister and grandson of Salvation Army founder William Booth on the Biblical Judas as an arch deceiver, hypocrite, and "son of perdition" who was never a follower of Christ and therefore was not saved. Booth-Clibborn uses this example..... More
Los Angeles: American Prophetic League, [195-?]. An anti-Catholic pamphlet from the evangelical pastor, Keith L. Brooks, who employs a question-and-answer format to investigate the anti-Christian doctrines of Catholicism. Small stapled wrappers (6" x 3½”), 30 pp. Toning to wrappers, a few tiny closed tears, very good. More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, [1905]. A pamphlet issued by the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society to commemorate their 40th anniversary. Included are a hymn and responsive reading; a statement to be read by the pastor; A Fortieth Anniversary Catechism consisting of a three-part call-and-response by..... More
Port of Spain, Trinidad: Education Renewal Action, 1974. A study guide for hip Christian youth edited by Ken Cadette of the Caribbean Conference of Churches. The book was designed to facilitate discussions (“rap sessions”) between Christian youth on questions of morality, social problems, atheism, etc, some of it specific to..... More
Milan, Illinois: [Rail Splitter Press]. An unsent anti-Catholic postcard captioned "Three Things That Never Marry" and featuring a bulldog, a priest with a pig head, and a cow all set in a three leaf clover. Below is a poem that reads, "Jesuitism is the incarnation / of political hypocrisy. /..... More