Antichrist in History, or, What is a Protestant?
Scammon, KS: Sweney Munson, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 251pp. Frontis map. Signed by Munson on the front pastedown. Publisher's blue cloth boards, front cover and spine lettered in black. Some pale spotting and rubbing to boards. Text block toned. Very good.
Self-published work from Sweney Munson (1860-1945), who worked as a locomotive and steam shovel engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad. Munson spent several months in Russia during WWI building 400 miles of rail from Kem to the Murman coast.
This work, which is signed by the author "Sweney Munson 32°, Fort Scott, Kansas, November 19th, 1924," begins by equating the Papcy with the Antichrist spoken of in scripture, or "the counterfeit of Jesus." The remainder of the work, which is "carefully compiled from Authentic Historical Sources," is presented as a history text book, outlining the evils of the Catholic Church from the Crusades, to papal persecutions, to wars of the inquisition. A large section of the book is devoted to Martin Luther and the beginnings of Protestantism. Munson also includes an extensive chapter on slavery as well as Masonry in the United States and the Papacy's war against it.
Price: $200.00