Prayer and Praise; or Hymns and Tunes for Prayer Meetings, Praise Meetings, Experience Meetings, Revivals, Missionary Meetings, and All Special Occasions of Christian Work and Worship
Macon, Georgia: J.W. Burke & Co., 1883.
Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 320pp. Wear to brown cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Cloth is torn at corners and along spine edge. Toning to spine. Rubbing and dust-spotting to edges of text block. Inked inscription at front paste-down. Inked gift inscription to front endpaper reads, "This Book was presented to R. Frank Eakes by his friend Rev. John H. Johnston on May 23rd 1888 in Cumming Georgia." Penciled notation that appears to be an accounts leger to rear endpaper. Foxing and very occasional penciled notation to pages. Notation does not obscure music or text. Binding is extremely tender with cracked hinges barely attached to text block in few couple places by binding string. An admittedly worn but intact collection of worship music compiled and edited by R.M. McIntosh and Reverend Atticus G. Haygood.
Born in Watkinsville, Georgia, on November 19, 1839, Atticus Greene Haygood graduated from Emory College in 1859. After entering the ministry, he took on the role of editing the Sunday-school publications for the Southern branch of the church. Haygood served as the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate from 1878 to 1882 and later became the president of Emory from 1876 to 1884. Additionally, he played a crucial role as the General Agent of the Slater Fund, aiding educational institutions for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era. While initially declining an election as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1882, he accepted another in 1890. Haygood's influence extended to the establishment of the newspaper "Our Brother in Black" in Oklahoma in 1890. One of his enduring legacies stems from his renowned "New South" sermon, delivered on Thanksgiving Day in Old Church, Oxford, Georgia. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Haygood called for a "New South," emphasizing, "Let us stand by what is good and make it better if we can." Fair. Item #14191
Price: $20.00