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Hardcover. Presumed first edition (SD; NAP) . Hardcover, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 116 pp, original brown cloth, illustrated with frontispiece of Rev. Spearman. Good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped, cloth mottled with drop marks, an approximately 3/4 inch irregularly shaped chip off spine. Internally, previous owner's 1929 inscription (from Rev W H Turner) , endpapersand first and last few leaves tanned with some foxing, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Insightful and concise sermons applying the lessons of the Gospels and Epistles to daily life, occasionally interspersed with references to the material temptations and distractions of New York City during the earlier days of the great migration of African-Americans from the rural South and the Harlem Renaissance. Author was a noted figure in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and pastor of Bethel A M E Church in New York City. Son of Rev Edward D Spearman, born in Newberry, South Carolina in 1875, educated at Biddle and Lincoln Universities and Yale, and pastor at churches in Chelsea and Lynn, Massachusetts, Camden, Newark and Trenton, New Jersey, and finally Bethel, and delegate and leader to the General Conferences. Hard to find. Religion; theology; Bible studies; African-American; Black memorabila.