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Sermon Preached at the Consecration of Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas as Assistant Bishop of Kansas, in St. Paul's Church, St. Paul, May 4, 1887
by A.B. Whipple [sic] [i.e. Henry Benjamin Whipple]
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About This Item
St. Paul: W.W. Price & Co., Printers, [1887]. 11, [1]pp. 7 x 4¼ inches. Printed wrappers. Author's hand-corrections. Wrappers with splitting, chipped at head and tail of spine; else very good.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Whipple to Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894), former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who was active in the Episcopal church in Boston.
A very scarce ordination sermon preached in 1887 by Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901), the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota. Bishop Whipple spoke on the occasion of Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas' consecration as Assistant Bishop of Kansas. In 1899, Thomas became the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.
Whipple describes Kansas as "not a whit behind the fairest portion of our [nation's] goodly heritage. It will be the home of millions. If the entire population of the Eastern and Middle States was placed within its borders it would not be as densely populated as England is to-day. In the life of our brother the fortunes of the Church will be settled for more than one hundred years [...] the Church in Kansas has only entered upon its work. The work is everywhere. Missions to plant. Churches to build. Homes of mercy to found. Schools to endow. Work to make the stoutest hands weary and the strongest heart faint."
OCLC returns four holding locations; none are in Kansas.
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- Title
- Sermon Preached at the Consecration of Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas as Assistant Bishop of Kansas, in St. Paul's Church, St. Paul, May 4, 1887
- Author
- A.B. Whipple [sic] [i.e. Henry Benjamin Whipple]
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- Used
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Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
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