A TWELVE YEARS' RETROSPECT. AN ANNIVERSARY SERMON, PREACHED IN CHRIST CHURCH, CHICAGO, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 10TH, 1872, BY REV....RECTOR. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.

[Chicago: D. & C.H. Blakely, Chicago Evening Post, 1872]. 16pp, stitched, original printed self-wraps [some soil, old institutional stamp], clean text. Good+. On the "man of energy," who is "too busy for religion" and whose type "has strange likenesses in Chicago." Cheney warns that, "A characteristic feature of our society is an intense love of frequent changes in all things. It is that which betokens danger to all institutions," and which makes Cheney's long tenure at the Christ Church remarkable. FIRST EDITION. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Soliday, Graff. 105 NUC 0340407 [3]. Item #14842

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