Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes
The preacher's great storehouse of illustration, gathered by a New York pastor from years of collecting and from all the former collections, British and American: anecdotes, incidents, narratives, examples and testimonies arranged under 441 subjects in alphabetical order, from Abstinence to Zeal in Doing Good — some 2,300 of them lettered for instant finding (the title page promises 'nearly three thousand'). George B. Cheever's Introduction, on the power of illustration in preaching, and the author's own Preface stand at the front. For the pulpit, the Sabbath school, and the family circle.
Reading is recorded only here, in the Library’s reader — the book stands open on this page to read and to hear, and your place is kept for you.
GTU print edition (PDF) — typeset from the Internet Archive full text of the 1848 Leavitt, Trow & Co. edition; Introduction and Preface included; the printed topical and scriptural indexes omitted (their scan is corrupt at the reference level) — the 441 subjects stand in alphabetical order with a full contents. · Source: https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofmora00arvi
Author died 1851; work first published 1848 (pre-1930) — public domain in the United States; the Internet Archive catalogues its copy NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT.