A rather scarce work defending the historical practice and practical benefit of Circuit Riders / Circuit Preachers from the origins of Methodism with John Wesley, through the Colonial era and the First and Second Great Awakening eras, etc., No other examples on the market at the time of cataloguing.

Porter, James. The True Evangelist: Or, An Itinerant Ministry, Particularly that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Explained, Guarded, and Defended. With and Introduction by Rev. Abel Stevens. Third Edition. Boston. Charles H. Pierce. 1848. 162pp.

A very good copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.