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Personal Recollections (Classic Reprint): A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography: A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Ricker, Joseph

 
9781333748029: Personal Recollections (Classic Reprint): A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography: A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography (Classic Reprint)
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ISBN 10: 1333748027 ISBN 13: 9781333748029
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2018

Sinopsis

Discover a vivid, first-hand look at 19th-century Maine Baptists through personal portraits and social history.

In Maine Baptist Memories, Joseph Ricker gathers intimate accounts and biographical sketches that illuminate the lives of early Baptists in New England. The book blends social history with individual life stories, offering a grounded view of church, community, and daily life in a formative era.

Drawing on personal recollections and historical detail, this edition presents a careful portrait of ministers, lay leaders, and the communities they served. It sheds light on the challenges, reforms, and everyday faith that shaped Maine Baptists over decades—from country life and schooling to church life, education, and mission work.

  • First-hand narratives that foreground personal experience within a historical framework
  • Biographical sketches of key Maine Baptist leaders and their families
  • Contextual chapters on schools, church life, and social movements of the time
  • A window into 19th-century religious practice, community life, and denominational history

Ideal for readers of religious history and regional Americana, this volume invites you to see how faith and community shaped everyday life in Maine.

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Reseña del editor

Excerpt from Personal Recollections: A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography

The author is well aware that to some, this volume may appear chiefly conspicuous for what it does not contain. To such, be they few or many, he begs leave to say that, from its very scope and purpose, the book could never rise above the level of the partial and the fragmentary, - could never, in any event, reach a stage where finishing touches would be in order. As its title indicates it deals with matters that pertain to only a single life-time; and even of these, it could deal with comparatively few. The line must be drawn some where and just where, was not left very much in the discretion of the author. The adverse and determining factors in the case were, lack of strength and lack of space. To have made a very large book would have been impossible under existing circumstances, and unwise under any circumstances. It is a real grief not to have been able to pay loving tributes to many other names that are dear to the denomination and dear to the heart of the writer. But the conditions were simply prohibitive. Even at the best, it was necessary to solicit aid at the kindly hands of others. The contributions of Doctors Pepper, Hovey, Stearns, King, Mathews, and Spencer, and of the Rev. Messrs. Newcombe, and Crocker.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Personal Recollections: A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography
Then. As now. The social needs of the people claimed and secured gratification, but in what sim ple and unconventional ways I Did Mrs. A. Incline to pass an afternoon and take tea with her neighbor, Mrs. B 9 'ithout the shadow of a scruple, she would go unannounced to the said neighbor's. Feel ing a serene and well-grounded confidence that she would meet with a heart-full welcome. And in like manner Mls. B., whenever the impulse took her, would make a draft upon the hospitalities of Mrs. A. No red tape then, no scented notes, no cold formalities. Nature had free play, and who shall say that it was not as well thus, as in the more cere monious, and too Often heartless. Fashion of later days?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Forgotten Books
Año de publicación
2018
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ISBN 10 
1333748027
ISBN 13 
9781333748029
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