1877 RICHARD H. DYAS. The Upas: A Vision of the Past, Present, and Future. Strange Prophetic Work. Evangelical Weems was the first to

Weems was the first to issue a separately published biographical work dedicated to General President George Washington's life

*338pp book entirely in the hand of John James Bonar of Greenock

For several weeks prior

[Founder and Superintendent of the Fulton Street Prayer Meetings]

1877 RICHARD H. DYAS. The Upas: A Vision of the Past, Present, and Future. Strange Prophetic Work. Evangelical Weems was the first toAn exceptionally scarce volume purporting to be something of a new "Apocalypse" or prophetic word for the modern era. The present work, up until recently, had usually been classed as science fiction on bibliographic catalogues. It clearly is not that though; the author intended it to be read as a bona fide revelation of God to the modern era, detailing specifically the mutually parasitic dangers of ignorance and superstition. The author goes so far as