1796 JOSEPH VAILL. Noah's Flood. A Poem in Two Parts. Rare Early American Moral Verse. Hymns and not those of other

and not those of other men and communities

who by patient continuance in well doing

Not for the faint of heart

This is then followed by a proposed circular letter from the group proposing that the Baptists together employ 2 or 3 traveling revivalists to visit all the Baptist churches

1796 JOSEPH VAILL. Noah's Flood. A Poem in Two Parts. Rare Early American Moral Verse. Hymns and not those of otherA very scarce series of works in verse by Connecticut divine, Rev. Joseph Vaill. The first, one of the most ambitious poetic works of the late 18th century in America, contains a virtual early Old Testamant history in verse, In the beginning, from chaotic night, God by his powerful voice, call'd forth the light, . . . . . . They pluck'd, they ate, they disobeying fell, Which op'd the dreadful gates to death and hell! . . . . . . Polluted children soon