Removed from a larger sammelband at some point
he apparently had led a “dissipated” life living in Mexico drinking local tequila and water that came from a well-known to be contaminated with lead
On Peace in Believing by Thomas Chalmers
Pugh was from the prominent Pugh family of ministers and missionaries among the Wesleyan Methodists
All in period half leather bindings
1861 PRO-SLAVERY PRESBYTERIANS. Fast Day Sermons by Confederate, Pro-Slavery Pastors. Very Rare. Evangelical Removed from a larger sammelbandAn exceptionally rare volume issued in New York at the onset of the Civil War, containing fast day sermons from the Civil War, but each preached by pro Slavery Presbyterians and associated. It's a who's who of Confederate preachers of the era, including R. L. Dabney, J. H. Thornwell, B. M. Palmer, Robert J. Breckinridge, Henry J. Van Dyke [the notorious anti abolitionist], and then . . . quite naughtily, a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher entitled "Peace