What a great volume! It contains, organized by subject, anecdotes and illustrations of the Christian ministry gathered from the lives of Martin Luther, Thomas Coke, Adam Clarke, Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Chalmers, John Angell James, John Brown, George Whitefield, William Tennent, Lancelot Andrews, Thomas Shepherd, Thomas Hooker, Cotton Mather, John Fox, John Elliott, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, John Cotton, Oliver Heywood, Thomas Manton, etc. 

And includes subjects such as ministerial piety, compassion for the perishing, prayer, peace-making, singular instances of providence deliverances and the miraculous, peace-making, dying testimonies, humility, etc. 

Smith, Daniel. Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Christian Ministry. Compiled by Daniel Smith. Introduction by D. W. Clark. New York. Carlton & Phillips. 1855. 448pp.

Good + in attractive blind stamped cloth with gold on spine; bumped and a bit handled. Very solid and crisp; some foxing at prelims and rears. One page creased. 1860 Christmas inscription to George H. Camp.