John George Bartholomew

The Altar (1865) was the work of John Glass Bartholomew (1834-1874), a Universalist minister born in Pompey, New York, who began preaching at nineteen and was ordained in 1856. Noted for a dramatic and eloquent pulpit style, he served congregations including Oxford, New York; Aurora, Illinois; Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Church of the Redeemer in Brooklyn; Auburn and Syracuse, New York; and Newark, New Jersey, where he died in 1874. The dates in the catalog heading (1860-1920) belong to John George Bartholomew, a Scottish cartographer with no connection to this book, an apparent confusion of similar names.

A Universalist Publishing House service book for children's worship: opening and closing services, responsive readings, prayers, and hymns arranged for the Sunday school hour. The Sunday school was the denomination's great growth engine after mid-century, and this little book shows the care taken to give even the children's service a dignified liturgical shape.

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