Three complete years of one of the most important periodicals for the young of the early and mid-19th century; edited by Sabbath School pioneer, Asa Bullard, and full of really excellent content, not least of which are extensive accounts of revivals directly impacting the young. 

Bullard, Asa [ed.] The Well-Spring. Understanding is a Well-Spring of Life. Published Weekly by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society.  January to December 1849. 206pp + indices

[bound with]

Bullard, Asa [ed.] The Well-Spring. Understanding is a Well-Spring of Life. Published Weekly by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society.  January to December 1850. 206pp + indices

[bound with]

Bullard, Asa [ed.] The Well-Spring. Understanding is a Well-Spring of Life. Published Weekly by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society.  January to December 1851. 208pp + indices.

Contents include: The Sewing Society | Revivals in Big Creek, MO | Danger of Early Drinking | Louise Merton and her Colored Class [Fine Engraving] | John Rogers’ Bible | Tuwarri: A Story of the Coral Isles | Cock Fighting | Boy, Please Put down that Cigar | King James’ Bible | Letter from Dr. Scudder – Missionary at Madura | Noah Webster – A Great Scholar and the Bible | Letter from Port Natal, Africa | The Irish Population in Boston | Chinese Ladies | Bunyan – The Bedfordshire Tinker | The Slaves of the Lamp | Disobedience. A Story for Boys | Revival in Vermont | Bapu Mazda – The Convert of Bombay | History of the Waldenses | On Swearing | Revival at Utica, NY | A Lesson on War | Revivals at Springfield, Vermont | Kindness of a Colored Man | A Lesson from the Indians | Revival in Falmouth | The Life of Thomas Hooker | Sabbath School Celebration [ Great Woodcut ] | Revival at Ludlow | Letter from Mo of Siam | The Wyandot Chief | Revival in Norwich North, Vermont | Mrs. Martha Washington | Letter from Oodooville | Revival in Sunderland | Revival in Westfield | Self-Torture among the Heathen | The First Christian Burial Among the Zulus | A Revived Sabbath School |Confined for having the Bible! | A Lesson from the Indians | Revival | Influence of Bad Books | The Old Iron-Bound, Chained Bible | Punishing Liars in Turkey | Revivals in Sabbath Schools | A Revival in Essex | The Revival | The Youth at the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] | Wigglesworth on Family Government | The Sabbath School in Africa | Committing the Catechism and a Revival | Fourth of July Accidents [ Fireworks ] | Revival in South Wilbraham Sunday School | Letters from Heathen Youth – Unvoti, Port Natal | Our Puritan Ancestors and the Catechism | Revival in Candia, New Hampshire | How Old is Jesus? R. S. Maclay, Missionary to China | Sabbath School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1798 | Jenny Lind and the Orphans | Jenny Lind’s Interest in Her Native Land | Revivals at Ipswich | Letter from a Negro Boy, Atropong, West Africa | Who will be a Soldier?  | Jenny Lind’s Visit to the Blind. | Juvenile Temperance at the Sandwich Islands | The Balloon [Charming illustration of a hot air balloon] | Soldier’s Library at Fort McHenry | Sabbath School Books for California | What Females can Do. | Juvenile Crime in Boston | The Wars of the Crusaders | Rev. Mr. Stoddard’s Letter [Missionary to Persia] | Calvinistic Sunday School Books for Texas | Boys, Beware the First Whiff [Cigar Smoking]. | Example of John Quincy Adams | Finger Nails of a Hindoo Beggar | Revival of Religion in the West Parish | Jenny Lind a Life-Long Member of the Society [Sunday School] | The Chickasaw Cousins | Revival in Bedford | Prayer Answered while we are Speaking [Revivals in Colleges] | The Indian Preacher | M’Cheyne’s Interest in the Young | Children Coming to Christ in Iowa | Disobedience and Sabbath Breaking | Missionary and Indian Woman | Conversions in a Sunday School in Michigan [Beverly, MI] | The Vinegar Bible | Eclipse of the Sun at the Sandwich Islands | A Letter from the Sandwich Islands [Maleawao, Maui] | No Swearing in Ojibway | Revival in High Street Sabbath School, Providence | Revival in Waterford, Vermont | Effects of Revivals on the Sabbath School | Anglo-Bengali Primer [Baptist Mission Press] | Religious Blessings of our Land | Tobacco Reform | My Visit to Algiers [Music of the Negroes, etc.] | New England Primer of 1777 | A Moorish Coffee-House [Superb engraving] | Still Older Editions of the New England Primer, etc. etc. etc.

Large folio, 12.5 inches in height; spine over bound with new label; some staining throughout, but complete and good. Some foxing, staining, etc.