A very scarce small folio including nearly six years of this rare early American Baptist publication. Includes a significant quantity of 19th century first-hand accounts of local revivals, Baptist expansion, then-present Baptist controversies, etc., Also content relevant to C. H. Spurgeon and the work published in D. L. Moody's community. 

Contents include:

Baptism is Immersion; Proportionate Giving [Tithing]; Address of Rev. E. B. Hulbert before the Home Mission Society; Baptist Missions in Illinois; What Shall we Do with our Foreign Population in Illinois [German Missionaries]; Deacon Parkins' Fall by Mrs. W. L. Sanders; Quality for the Sake of Quantity by Rev. Dwight Spencer; Revival Notes [excellent regular series on local revivals in the Midwest]; Should we Use the Word "Campbellite?;" An Address Given by Miss Lucy L. Greene at the BYPU Convention; The Indian's Scale of Giving; Weak Churches; Christ Our Commander in Chief; Personal Work by T. L. Cuyler; Seven Baptist Points; Spurgeon's Chat with His Students; Pioneer Baptist Ministers [series on 18th and early 19th century American Baptist divines]; Life of Justus Bulkley; Tried by the Bible; The Touch of Christ; For the Temperance Committee; Concerning Christmas; How to Treat a Preacher; Notes from Revivalist Sam Jones; Not Elocution but the Holy Ghost; Spiritual Power; How to Kill the Church; Baptists in Illinois in 1796; How to Create Conviction; Anti-Slavery Agitation among Early Illinois Baptists; How Spurgeon Prayed; How to Get Power; The Baptist Type of Christianity; Gettin' Baptized; The Work of the Holy Spirit; Safe and Reliable Tests of Revival Work; The Devil's Trap; Newton and the Atheist; What was done through Prayer?; Is Rev. J. J. Porter Sound in the Faith?; The Deeper Spiritual LIfe; The Heresy of Stagnation; Holiness that does not Help a Revival; etc. etc., 

The Illinois Baptist Bulletin. Volume 1, No. 1 [July, 1892] through Volume 7, No. 3 [September, 1898]. 

Good + to very good folio in period pebbled buckram, some wear with light abrasions through on spine and corners. Generally sound and clean with a few marginal tears.