| D. Appleton and Company New York 1859 titlepage continues: Addressed to His own Congregation, Sunday, Sept. 25th, 1859, on the Reopening of All Souls' Church, After the Summer vacation. At the time of publication, the author was Minister to the First Congregational Church in New York. Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882), born in Boston, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, became pastor of the First Congregational Church in New York City, afterwards All Souls' Church, where he remained until his death. For many years, the leader of the Unitarian Church in the United States, he edited The Christian Inquirer and The Christian Examiner, and from 1865 to 1880 he served as chairman of the national conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches. He also planned and served as president of the United States Sanitary Commission from 1861 to 1878, as president of the Civil Service Reform Association, and helped organize the Union League Club of New York, the Century Association in New York City, and Cooper Union. 48 p.; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Stiffened gray paper wrappers. "Let us congratulate each other, Christian brethren, upon our reunion after many weeks of separation, and on the reopening of our Christian sanctuary! It is good to be here, to be together, and to look into each other's faces, and upon the comeliness of our religious home" [opening lines of the sermon]
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