OUR SOUTH AMERICAN COUSINS

New York: Nelson and Phillips / London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1879, 1879. First Edition. Signed presentation from Taylor on a front blank page: "To Mrs. R.J. Pidge, with grateful remembrances of her Bro. in Jesus. Wm. Taylor (the author). July 29th 1879." Also with a small paper engravings of Taylor, also signed by him. An account of a religious missionary in South America by an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Taylor was converted in 1841 at a Methodist Episcopal camp meeting. Appointed a Methodist missionary to California (1849), he ministered to Native Americans and Chinese immigrants, and to the sick and the poor. Taylor's experiences as an entrepreneurial missionary on the frontier became paradigmatic for the concepts he later called "Pauline Missions." Taylor visited Australia and New Zealand (1863-1866) and then South Africa (in 1866) where his evangelistic campaigns among the black population were revolutionary. Elected in 1884 as Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop for Africa, he established self-supporting churches in southern Liberia, Sierre Leone, Angola, Mozambique, and Zaire. 12mo., embossed dark-brown cloth; spine title in gilt; 318 pages. Illustrated with two full-page frontispiece portrait and illustrated ads for Bradbury Pianos.. Very Good (some wear & light discoloration covers, gilt bright, few signatures lightly sprung).