Research Catalog

Title

The Negro in the Christian pulpit, or, The two characters and two destinies : as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons / by J.W. Hood, bishop of the A.M.E. Zion Church ; with an appendix, containing specimen sermons by other bishops of the same church ; introduction by Rev. A.G. Haygood, D.D., author of "Our brother in black," &c.

Author

Hood, J. W. (James Walker), 1831-1918.

Publication

Raleigh : Edwards, Broughton & Co., steam power printers and binders, 1884.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haygood, Atticus G. (Atticus Greene), 1839-1896.
• Snyder, Henry M.
• Edwards, Broughton & Co., publisher.

Description

12, [1], 10-363, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Negro in the Christian pulpit
• Two characters and two destinies

Subjects

• Hood, J. W (James Walker), 1831-1918 > Portraits
• Black author
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church History
• African Americans > Religion
• African American churches
• African American Methodists
• African American clergy

Note

• Frontispiece portrait signed: H.M. Snyder.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by J.W. Hood, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction by Rev. A.G. Haygood, D.D. -- The author's apology -- sermon 1. The claims of the Gospel message -- sermon 2. Personal consecration -- sermon 3. Exemplified attachment to Christ and the reward -- sermon 4. Divine sonship the sequence of wonderous love -- sermon 5. Why was the rich man in torment -- sermon 6. The marvelous vitality of the Church -- sermon 7. On Easter -- sermon 8. Creation's first-born, or the earliest symbol of the Gospel -- sermon 9. The soul's anchor -- sermon 10. The loss of the soul -- sermon 11. The two characters and two destinies -- sermon 12. Man's natural disinclination to turn in his distresses to his maker -- sermon 13. The streams which gladden God's city -- sermon 14. The perfect felicity of the resurrected saints a result of conformity to the divine likeness -- sermon 15. The doom of the hypocrit's hope -- sermon 16. The glory revealed in the Christian character -- sermon 17. A desirable consummation -- sermon 18. Loss of first love -- sermon 19. The helplessness of human nature -- sermon 20. The Christian characteristics -- sermon 21. David's root and offspring, or Venus in the Apocalypse -- Appendix. sermon 1. The unpardonable sin, by Bishop J.J. Moore, D.D. -- sermon 2. The first pair banished, by Bishop J.P. Thompson, M.D. -- sermon 3. The love of God, its objects, gift and design, by Bishop Thomas H. Lomax -- sermon 4. A farewell, delivered before the Kentucky Conference by Bishop S.J. Jones, D.D. -- An address. The good Samaritan, by Bishop S.J. Jones, D.D. -- Electrotypes of bishops contributing sermons, in a group.

Call Number

Sc Rare 252-H (Hood, J. W. The Negro in the Christian pulpit)

OCLC

2679933

Author

Hood, J. W. (James Walker), 1831-1918.

Title

The Negro in the Christian pulpit, or, The two characters and two destinies : as delineated in twenty-one practical sermons / by J.W. Hood, bishop of the A.M.E. Zion Church ; with an appendix, containing specimen sermons by other bishops of the same church ; introduction by Rev. A.G. Haygood, D.D., author of "Our brother in black," &c.

Imprint

Raleigh : Edwards, Broughton & Co., steam power printers and binders, 1884.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3407, column 2, row 3

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 252-H (copy 1) (accession no. B526685) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the book; : they lack original cover, and bound in black cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Haygood, Atticus G. (Atticus Greene), 1839-1896.

Snyder, Henry M., engraver.

Edwards, Broughton & Co., publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 252-H (Hood, J. W. The Negro in the Christian pulpit)