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Hard cover, 12mo, in green cloth with bevelled edge boards ruled in blind along outside edge, with titles blocked to spine and publisher monogram. Inside, glazed brown endpapers with a L.B. Brown library label to ffep. (unwritten upon). Copyright 1871. COLLATION: [4], v,[1],1-372 pp.,[6]. CONDITION: Very Good Plus, with two bumped corners, small marks to rear board. Hinges in order. Square and unwritten in. Moderate toning to pages. **Contains twenty sermons, with delivery dates from the Methodist minister William Henry Harrison Murray at the time he was a very popular and charismatic preacher at Boston's Park Street Church, where he preached from 1868 to 1874. Murray's obituary in The Boston Globe mentions that Murray was an immensely successful orator and attracted crowds of 1200 to his services. Murray courted controversy, however, with some of the congregation due to a concurrent passion for horse breeding and carriage racing which led to his eventual ouster. He then moved his services across the street to a Music Hall venue, and carried on. (Please see our related listing 9361 for the "Music Hall Sermons.") **L.B. Brown (1856-1941), whose library label appears on the ffep. of this item, was a notable Floridian man of color, born into slavery. After emancipation, he and his minister father, Native American mother, and their family were granted land in Spring Garden Florida. With humble beginnings as a jack of all trades, L.B. would eventually become a home builder and landlord in Barstow, near Gainsville, where the family home is now a museum. L.B., like his father, was involved in leadership of the Baptist church. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opened an exhibit of his achievements in 2016. REFS: OCLC 900632180. Sabin 51549. [Last photo on our DSNB website--no room on Abe-- shows a lithographed engraving of the Park Street Church taken from" King's Handbook of Boston, 4th edition," (Boston: Moses King, Publisher, 1881).
Ref: MASBO 9360
$75.00