Life & Letters Of Benjamin Morgan Palmer

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Weight 1.05 kg
Dimensions 22.3 × 14.3 × 4.6 cm
ISBN 9780851515229
Binding

Cloth-bound

format

Book

page-count

704

Original Pub Date

1906

Banner Pub Date

Feb 1, 1998

Book Description

Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902) ‘one of the few greatest preachers of the first nineteen centuries of the Christian era’, was just 25 when he became the successor of J. H. Thornwell in Columbia, South Carolina, and 38 at the commencement of his 46-year pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in the great business centre of New Orleans.

This biography takes us behind the public figure to the humble, prayerful Christian whose life was marked by affliction. His only son was lost in childhood and four daughters were to die, one after another, followed by his wife. As Palmer saw it, ‘The earthly lights are put out that no earthly love may come in between Him and us.’

This is not only a great biography; it is an outstandingly relevant record in an age when the church needs a recovery of spiritual strength and vision. It would be hard to read it sympathetically without being led to pray.

 

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1 THE ANCESTORS 1
2 FEATURES OF THE CIVILIZATION AMIDST WHICH HE DEVELOPED 18
3 BOYHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH 36
4 DAYS OF HIS COLLEGE TRAINING 45
5 STUDENT FOR THE MINISTRY IN COLUMBIA SEMINARY 62
6 PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT SAVANNAH 73
7 THE PASTOR AT COLUMBIA, S.C. 87
8 THE PASTOR AT COLUMBIA, S.C. – Continued 126
9 PROFESSOR IN COLUMBIA SEMINARY 150
10 THE ANTE-BELLUM PERIOD IN NEW ORLEANS 170
11 THE ANTE-BELLUM PERIOD IN NEW ORLEANS – Continued 196
12 HIS COURSE DURING THE WAR 236
13 REBUILDING THE BROKEN WALLS 291
14 REBUILDING THE BROKEN WALLS – Continued 346
15 AT THE SUMMIT OF HIS POWERS, AND PRODUCTIVITY 421
16 AT THE SUMMIT OF HIS POWERS, AND PRODUCTIVITY – Continued 482
17 THE FINAL STADIUM OF SERVICE; NOBLE BUT BROKEN 531
18 THE FINAL STADIUM OF SERVICE; NOBLE BUT BROKEN – Continued 571
19 THE FINAL STADIUM OF SERVICE; NOBLE BUT BROKEN – Continued 606
20 THE STREET CAR ACCIDENT, DEATH, BURIAL AND EULOGIES 620
21 SUMMARY VIEW OF THE MAN AND HIS SERVICES 651

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