Excellent reading in these two years of Asa Bullard's periodical for the poor and young during the Westward Expansion era. 

Born in 1804, Bullard served as the editor and secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society from 1834 until 1875. Aside from the American Tract Society, Bullard's editorial choices probably did more to influence America's young than just about any other figure of the time. 

Bullard has taken on significant interest over the years for his relationship and correspondence with his niece, Emily Dickinson. 

Contents for 1839 include: Mrs. Champion's Account of the Inhabitants of Cape Town, Africa [Ginani]; Wonderful Results from an Humble Effort [John Williams, Missionary and Martyr in the South Seas]; The Abandoned Orphan; Revivals among the Young; Parental Authority; The Zulus and the Cruelty of the Dingann by Mrs. Susan Champion; God's Power and Man's Dependence; History of the Shorter Catechism; The Pious Negro; Revival in a Massachusetts School; The Teacher the Orphan's Parent; Letter to a Sewing Circle; Sabbath Schools in Michigan; Efforts among the Young in St. Louis, MO; Beauties of Richmond; Revivals; Like Parents Like Children; Missionary Efforts in Boston; Translations of the Bible; Conversion of the Young; Indians' Regard for the Sabbath; A Report on Revivals; The Pious Boy and His Wicked Father; Letter from Africa to a Juvenile Society; Children can Understand Doctrine; The Young Prisoners; Girls at the Sandwich Islands; Revival in Princeton, Mass; Letter from the Sandwich Islands by J. S. Green; The Missouri Enterprise; Conversation about the Creation; Christmas Day; Early Rising; etc.

Contents for 1840 include: God is Love; Honor to Parents; The Happy Influence of Sabbath Schools; History of Maternal Associations; Sabbath Schools in Missouri; Thirteen Barefooted Children; Unbelief Overcome; Hope for the Temperance Cause; The Nestorian Boy and His Question Book; Influence of Mothers; The Missionary Spirit among the Young; The Cold Water Army [Temperance; splendid woodcut]; Revivals; Facts from Missouri; The Total Abstinence Society; Household Consecration; The Converted Children of the Sandwich Islands by J. S. Green; A Victim of Unfaithfulness and Mistaken Affection; The Female Boarding Seminary of the Sandwich Islands; Causes for Lamentation in the Sandwich Islands; A Man Hung for Obeying His Mother; On Moral Courage; Sabbath Schools among the Heathen; Fourth of July Celebration; The Children's Prayer Meeting; etc., etc. 

Bullard, Asa [Ed.]. The Sabbath School Visitor. Volume VII. 1839. Boston. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1839. 284pp.

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Bullard, Asa [Ed.]. The Sabbath School Visitor. Volume VIII. 1840. Boston. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1840. 284pp.

A fair copy only, bound in half leather, shaken, with front board detached. Pages are handled, with moderate foxing and occasional stains.