This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Virginia Conference, and appointed to Ebenezer church, in the village of Crittenden, in Nansemond county. Directly after graduation, Mr. Newton was married to Miss Lettie E. Day, of South Carolina. She was of good Presbyterian stock, but in all her husband's work and travels has been a true Methodist preacher's wife. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Virginia Conference, and appointed to Ebenezer church, in the village of Crittenden, in Nansemond county. Directly after graduation, Mr. Newton was married to Miss Lettie E. Day, of South Carolina. She was of good Presbyterian stock, but in all her husband's work and travels has been a true Methodist preacher's wife. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by Wofford College, South Carolina, while he was in Japan. Dr. Newton has occasionally contributed articles to the periodicals of our Church. Two articles on Greek Philosophy and Christianity were published in the Quarterly Review while Dr. Hinton was editor, attracting favorable notice. A booklet of 100 pages on the "New South" grew out of his connection with Johns Hopkins. He has also written for the Board of.Missions pamphlets on mission education--one for Japan and one for China. His latest work is a volume of 432 pages, entitled "Japan: The Country, Court and People.' This work is the first history of a foreign people by a Southern writer, and it is gratifying to know that it has been highly commended by a large number of journals, both religious and secular, North and South, and nowhere more highly than in Japan. The American, with his salubrious, new and clean country, cannot conceive of the prolonged, moist, penetrating heat of Asia; the nauseating odors, nor the vile condition of the crowded cities, with no effort at cleanliness. The missionary easily falls victim to the climate and the germs that breed and riot in the steaming air and the hot ooze, the fermenting of filth. The East is the graveyard of devoted women. There is an unwritten volume which could tell of robust men smitten of the viewless venom distilled out of the muck of the nastiness of ages; the sewerage of c...
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Add this copy of Sketches and Portraits of the Virginia Conference to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by McCormick Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hartland, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1901 by Private Printing.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. Original red cloth boards mottled, slight fraying to cloth at points. Hinges repaired, endpapers chipped at edges, binding secure and a complete copy. Biographical sketches with portraits of Methodist Episcopal Church, South pastors. Index. Scarce first edition copy.; MCN18878; Large 8vo 9"-10"; 496 pp.
