Young rev robert newton (1 risultati)

First edition. 24pp. Modern tan cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's printed mauve upper wrapper bound in. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Bookplate of Nottingham Public Libraires to FEP, with their occasional ink-stamps throughout, wrapper worn. 'Breathes there a man who questions the righteousness of our cause? Is there a man who would bid our sword return unsprinkled to its scabbard? Is there a man in all Christendom, who would bid us stand still? Then let him look down the well in the barrack yard of Cawnpore!' The second located copy of an impassioned sermon preached by Methodist minister Robert Newton Young (1829-1898) on the occasion of a day of humiliation appointed to mark the atrocities committed against British soldiers and citizens - particularly the Massacre at Cawnpore - during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. Young, adamant that the Mutiny was the result of the government of India sanctioning 'idolatry' and 'popular superstition', references other contemporary military tragedies to demonstrate British resolve, notably the recently concluded Crimean War: 'The cavalry charge at Balaclava was doubtless such a passage of arms as seldom falls to the historian to record; Inkermann was the modern Agincourt. British valour was doughty and incomparable as ever; but it cannot be forgotten that the most magnificent army that ever left our shores melted away like the snow-drift'. OCLC records a single copy (Miami); COPAC adds no further. Size: 8vo.…