Significant pair of items representing the sermon and abstract published at the first annual meeting of the Massachusetts Missionary Society [1800] and the second [1801]. The MMS was only the second missionary society [formed 1799] in the United States, after the New York Missionary Society, and preceding the Connecticut Missionary Society and the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society. The first three would be absorbed into the ABCFM which emerged in 1810. 

Significant little pieces of American missiology.

Emmons, Nathaniel. A Sermon, Delivered before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at their Annual Meeting in Boston, May 27, 1800. To which is added, An Abstract of the Proceedings, and Fund of the Society; and an Address to the Public. Charlestown. Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge. 1800. 44pp.

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Niles, Samuel. A Sermon Delivered before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at their Annual Meeting in Boston, May 26, 1801. [with] and Appendix Containing: An Historical Sketch of the Missions of the Massachusetts Missionary Society. Cambridge. Printed & Sold by William Hilliard. 1801. 38 + 14pp.

Both textually good, though removed from a larger sammelband at some point previous to reaching our inventory. Remains of leather on spine. Textually good + to very good with light toning and some scattered foxing.