Very rare, being one of the very earliest periodicals expressly dedicated to the new expansion of the missionary movement inaugurated in the late 18th century by William Carey, and others. Very important first-hand accounts of the very earliest moments of the Second Great Awakening and one of the earliest "school for negroes" in existence. No copies on the market and very desirable.

 The Missionary Magazine, for 1799, A Periodical Monthly Publication, Intended as a Repository of Discussion, and Intelligence Respecting the Progress of the Gospel throughout the World. Edinburgh. Printed by Ja. Pillans & Sons, for J. Guthrie, J. Ogle, J. Campbell, Ja. Pillans & Sons. Edinburgh; and G. Peattie, Leith. 1799. 574pp [complete].

Contents include: On Useful Preaching; The Future Glory of Christ's Kingdom; A Letter from a Sailor at Cawsand Bay; Extensive Review of an Early Work on Sabbath Schools; An Account of the Missionaries aboard the Ship Duff; Questions of Covenanting; Original Letter from Daniel Pains of the Friendly Islands [Tongataboo]; On Conducting Sabbath Schools;  A Letter from Dr. Vanderkemp fo Thomas Haweis; Moravian Missions, Diary of Brother Kohrhammer off the Cape of Good Hope; Poem on the Death of an Infant; On Frequent Communion; Letter from the Brothertown Indians [New York, Extensive]; Extensive Report of the Mission by the General Associate Synod to Kentucky [7pp]; Letter from Ashbel Green of Philadelphia regarding Mission Work in America, including among the Chickesaw Nation, etc.,]; a pair of architectural plans by James Campbell [one for 1000 people that will cost GBP257 to build and another that seats 1620 at a cost of GBP355]; The Burgher Mission - Letter from One of the Missionaries of the Burgher Synod to Nova Scotia [Matthew Dripps]; Extensive Review of Rowland Hill's Revival Tour through Scotland; On the Arabic Bible; On the Character of a Preacher of the Gospel by William Cowper; The Difference between British and Otaheitan Time; The Glory of Christ's Kingdom in the Millennium; Liberality to the Poor and Subjection to the Powers that Be Exemplified in the Conduct of Primitive Christians; Account of the Sermons Preached at the Last Missionary Meeting at London; The Annual Meeting of the London Missionary Society at London; A Pastoral Admonition by William Moodie - Moderator; The Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home [controversy with Greville Ewing and James and Robert Haldane who split from the Scottish church and were "ordained" by Rowland Hill at Surrey Chapel]; the Mission to the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; Address of the Ministers of the Associate Presbytery of Nova Scotia; Letter from Andrew Fulton of Kentucky [missionary from Scotland to Kentucky; an important witness to the Cane Ridge Revival, etc.]; Proposal for a Printing of a New Edition of the Holy Scriptures in Arabic by J. D. Carlyle; Letter from William Carey at Bengal; Correspondence between William Carey and Christian F. Schwartz; The Capture of the Duff; Address before the Glasgow Missionary Society by William Wardlaw; The Discipline of the Primitive Churches Illustrated and Enforced by Andrew Fuller [interesting that they print this in full here; the Baptist controversy was very active in Scotland at this point]; the Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen [ Joshua Marshman, etc., signed Andrew Fuller]; Thoughts on the Glorious Prospects before the Church; On Believing the Gospel; The Itinerant Labours of Mess. Haldane, Aikman, and Innes; Removal of Missionaries from Otaheite; Missionary Exertions and the Revival of Religion in America [account of the birth pangs of the Second Great Awakening]; On Original Sin; Address before the Convention of Congregational Minsters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Eli Forbes and Jedidiah Morse [connected to the account of revival in American just mentioned]; On the Education of Poor Female Children; Account of the Present State of Religion in Several Parts of America [5.5pp of various first-hand accounts of the revival in America]; The Baptist Mission and the Translation of the New Testament into Bengalee; Hymn in a Story by Samuel Pearce; A Discourse Preached in Circus, Edinburgh by Andrew Fuller; Account of the Society for Instructing Africans, etc., 

Fair only, heavily rubbed as shown binding all but split down the middle. Textually complete with handling, occasional foxing and small, closed tears. Very rare.