1864 APOCALYPTIC VISIONS. Vision in Verse. American, Abolitionism, and Eschaton. Signed. Fine Binding and political and civic leadership

and political and civic leadership

This life is one of sacrifice and pain

William Charles Macready

Managers for the Congregational Fund

he was a deeply experimental puritan

1864 APOCALYPTIC VISIONS. Vision in Verse. American, Abolitionism, and Eschaton. Signed. Fine Binding and political and civic leadershipVery rare work in the Millennialist vein, demonstrating the march of time from Creation up through the periodization of sacred history, culminating with American history, the freedom of the slaves [notably, issued shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation]. The author writes in a way that exhibits the world's sovereign march through time as occurring in distinct epochs or dispensations and sees the modern era as "the last days" before the Millennium