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Author - Asa Bullard



The author and editor Asa Bullard (1804-1888) was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1828 before enrolling at Andover theological seminary. In the years following his enrollment in the theological seminary, Bullard became agent and secretary of the Maine Sabbath School Union, secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath school society, and honorary secretary and its representative before the churches. Bullard was very active in supporting the religious education of children, and along with the publication of The Children’s Album, Bullard wrote similar books such as Children's Book for Sabbath Hours (1875), Sunnybank Stories (Boston, 1863), and Fifty Years with the Sabbath-Schools (Boston, 1876). From 1834 to 1844 he edited a children’s periodical called The Sabbath-School Visiter”, which was supposed to appeal to both children and adults, thus encouraging family reading and interaction HOME .

 