Rather desirable early American periodical published out of the New Haven movement of the Great Awakening, i.e. those roughly aligned with the more open and evangelical views of Nathaniel W. Taylor, etc., 

Includes unpublished correspondence by John Newton, an extensive review of Thomas Chalmers' Application of Christianity to Common Life, extensive review of John Fosters' Evils of Popular Ignorance, Report of Missions among the Seamen of Nantucket, On the Development of "Mariner's Churches" on Board Traveling Boat Chapels, Missionary Work among the Jews of Poland, Letters from Missionary Richard Knill in Saint Petersburg Russia, Notice of Jonathan Edwards Jun's The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, on the Increase of Slaves in Virginia due to Domestic "Breeding," a Four-Page Review of the Constitution and Work of the American Colonization Society [Liberia], On the Connection between Bible Distribution - Human Dignity - and Abolition [and thus an increase in Fugitive Slaves], A fascinating article stating that the increase of slaves in the South will ultimately lead to a rebellion of slaves and the loss of the south from slave owners entirely [i.e. that it will implode], dozens of accounts of revival across New England [including at Dartmouth College], etc., 

Various Authors. The Christian Spectator, Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen. For the Year 1822. Volume IV. New Haven. Printed and Published by S. Converse. 1822. 672pp. 

A good + copy, bound in half leather that's rubbed as shown, generally solid, with light foxing.