Life and Letters of Benjamin Morgan Palmer - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Thomas Cary; Banner Of Truth Trust

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0851515223 ISBN 13 : 9780851515229

Editeur : The Banner of Truth Trust, 1987

Synopsis

Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902), was just 25 when he became the successor of J. H. Thornwell in Columbia, South Carolina. This biography takes us behind the public figure to the humble, prayerful Christian whose life was marked by affliction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Lf 77 7PREFACE In the summer of 1903, the Rev. John W. Caldwell, Jr., paid me a call, during which he said that there was a plan on foot to prepare a memorial volume of his grandfather, the lateR ev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, of New Orleans; that according to this plan the volume would contain the best of the biographical papers concerning him published soon after Dr. Palmer sdeath, a few of his best sermons and speeches, and a historical sketch of his services to the Church. He said, also, that in a family conference, they had concurred in thinking that I was the man to prepare the account of the ecclesiastical services. I was naturally pleased at being thought worthy to-perform this service in behalf of the memory of such a distinguished and noble man, but I felt that other men were probably much fitter for the task; and that it would be difficult to bring out his ecclesiastical services fully without dealing with his life and character as a man and aC hristian, apart from which he could have given no such service to the Church. I also felt that such a volume as had been contemplated was an insufficient memorial of one so worthy; that a proper regard for his character, and work, and for the interests of Christianity, all dictated that an adequate biography should be prepared. I frankly stated all these views. I also said that, in my judgment, they should find a man to do the work who had been bred in theS outh Carolina belt of civilization. I ventured even to name a man who would do the work well. Mr. Caldwell agreed that a biography was really demanded to meet the proprieties of the case; but spoke of practical difficulties in the way of securing such an elaborate work. He said that I was believed to have the kinship of ecclesiastical view desired in a biographer.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Banner of Truth Trust
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0851515223
• ISBN 13: 9780851515229
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible