The Paradise of Children: An Address to Boys and Girls.

Flexible cloth 24mo, 72pp. Illustrated frontis. An address regarding the death of children, and the scriptural promise that children fill the streets of heaven. Principally directed at other children, it tells how to prepare themselves so that if they die soon, they may join the other children in paradise (reaffirming the Presbyterian no-such-thing-as-purgatory bit along the way). In all, a sweet address on a sad subject that was all too familiar to children, and difficult to address. Morren (1798-1847) is affectionately recorded in Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: “His intellect was of a high order, acute, active, and comprehensive; its accuracy was remarkable, while its range was extensive. He possessed a memory peculiarly retentive. As a scholar his attainments were large and profound; as a minister he was pains-taking and devoted; as a friend, warm-hearted and faithful. His conversation was always interesting, full of information, abounding in anecdote, or sparkling with wit, and enlivened with playful humour." The Paradise of Children appears to have been his first publication, printed in Scotland around 1830, along with “The Nias Boy” under the title Addresses to Children. It appears here, followed by “The Blind Girl and Her Bible.” OCLC lists 3 copies: Princeton Theological Seminary (NJ), Union Presbyterian Seminary (VA), Presbyterian Historical Society Library (PA)