Very rare first edition, first printing of the work that first gave a linguistic handle to "entire sanctification" teaching of the Methodists that allowed popularization of its core ideals into the broader Evangelical movement as expressed in the Keswick movement, etc. Writers who today are considered classic devotionalists, Andrew Murray, F. B. Meyer, G. Campbell Morgan, H. C. G. Moule, etc., really find their roots in this work.

Boardman, W. E. The Higher Christian Life. Boston. Henry Hoyt. 1858. First edition. 330pp.

The present example presented by Dr. C. P. Hubbard who enlisted as a physician during the Civil War. He married Colonel Thomas Page, then enlisted as a Private in Company K, 11th Infantry of Maine in October of 1861. He was promoted in May of 1862, but was injured and discharged on disability in September of the same year. He and his wife gifted this book while he was home on recovery. Later the same year, he reenlisted and became ill, probably from a disease born on the bodies of the deceased soldiers, and died in the military hospital at City Point, Virginia in September of 1864. 

Good + with fading and rubbing to cloth, very solid, rather faint stain to text block as shown.