Clark Rev Francis E D D (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Dark olive cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt and black. Minor rubbing to extremities, text block edges a bit tanned. Firm binding, clean interior. xi,373 pp. This copy not dated but identical in appearance to 1897 1st ed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Normal exterior wear, including fading, edge and corner wear, and minor scuffing; former owners sticker on fly leaf. A narrative on an extensive journey, surveying world cultures and spreading the word of Christianity in such lands as Switzerland, India, South Africa, and more. 288 pages. Book.

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, flexible burgundy textured boards, gilt letters, all edges gilt 288 pp. Very Good, with edgewear. Contents: By Way of Introduction; The Battle of the Clouds; Concerning Moral Mountain-Climbing; The Land of William Tell; A Lesson from the Jungfrau; Christian Endeavor in Switzerland; Good News Concerning Kristna Endeavourforeningarnas; Concerning Much Wandering in Many Lands; Frederick Brotherton Meyer; The Ploughman Poet -- 1796 - 1896; Three Thousand Miles in Germany; Two Famous Germans in the Classroom; Some Things in Germany Worth Copying; Naples by Night; The Oldest and the Youngest; Or, Christian Endeavor in the Land of the Pyramids; A University Where The Sun Do Move; Concerning Many Things on Sea and Shore; A Plague-Stricken City; Concerning a Delightful Experience; A Queer Hospital; Here and There in India; Christian Endeavor in Historic India; A Christian Endeavor Meeting in the Taj Mahal; Christian Endeavor on the Ganges; An Hour on the Ganges; The Famine at Short Range; Rocked on the Bosom of the Ganges; A Missionary Mecca; Concerning a Unique and Memorable Convention; The Song of the MNurderer of Thirty; A Long Forward Step; In the Southern Empire; Swami Vivekanada upon His Native Heath; Our Sixty Days in India; A Sky Pilot on a Coolie Ship; Twnty-Three Days at Sea and Some Reflections; Africa at Last; The African at Home; The Two Republics of the Southern Cross; A Call on Odom Paul; In the Orange Free State; How Bishop Taylor Read the Bible; The World's Great Diamond Vault; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Last Days in South Africa. Travel, European History, Asian History. nslic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, NEARLY 200 HALF-TONE ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAITS AND ETCHINGS (illustrator). OFFICIAL EDITION. RARE BOOK, BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN COVER. WHITE, GOLD, BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. VERY GOOD CONDITION, FORMER OWNER NAME SMALL PRINT IN STAMP FRONT BLANK PAGE, CLEAN AND EXCELLENT SHAPE THROUGHOUT. OVER 200 ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAITS AND ETCHINGS THROUGHOUT. THE STORY OF A GREAT RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT WHICH SPREAD ALL OVER THE EARTH FROM A SMALL BEGINNING IN AMERICA, OFFICIAL EDITION, RARE, 48 CHAPTERS, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FRONT, TREMENDOUS BOOK COVERING THE BEGINNINGS TO 1906 WHEN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HAD 25TH ANNIVERSARY. VERY NICE INDEX IN BACK. FOR THE FOLLOWERS, LOVERS OOF CHRISTIANITY AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Francis Edward Clark (12 September 1851 - 26 May 1927) was an American clergyman. Clark was born of New England ancestry in Aylmer, Quebec, Canada.[1] He was the son of Charles C. Symmes, but took the name of an uncle, the Rev. E.W. Clark, by whom he was adopted after his father's death in 1853. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1876, was ordained in the Congregational ministry, and was pastor of the Williston West Church at Portland, Maine, from 1876 to 1883, and of the Phillips Congregational church, South Boston, Massachusetts, from 1883 to 1887.[2] On 2 February 1881, he founded in Portland, the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, which, beginning as a small society in a single New England church, developed into a great interdenominational organization, which in 1908 had 70,761 societies and more than 3,500,000 members scattered throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, India, Japan and China. After 1887, he devoted his time entirely to the extension of this work, and was president of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor and of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, and editor of the Christian Endeavor World (originally The Golden Rule). The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor was founded in Portland, Maine, in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark, as an interdenominational Christian youth society encouraging them to "work together to know God in Jesus Christ". Operating internationally as World's Christian Endeavor Union, the society's professed objective is "to promote an earnest Christian life among its members, to increase their mutual acquaintanceship, and to make them more useful in the service of God." ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Condition: Good. 4to. [ca 120 pp.]. Very Good. Hard back. Soiling to covers, and spine is ripped. Pages fine. B&W plates throughout. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt at front and spine.This volume describes the last six weeks of a long journey undertaken in the interests of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. Interest is perhaps added to this journey from the fact that we were the first Americans, and in all probability the first foreigners, to go around the world by the new route. The trans- Siberian all-steam route had been opened for a few days when we took passage to Vladivostock. The book has tanning and foxing throughout, the covers chow rubbing and wear at the extremities and something has been removed from inside the front cover leaving some damage. . **.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ART NOUVEAU DEVOTIONAL IN ORIGINAL GIFT BOX An attractively preserved late Victorian devotional designed for daily reflection and personal religious practice within the Christian Endeavor movement. Issued in a striking Art Nouveau binding and retained in its original decorated gift box, the volume combines devotional readings, poetry, scripture, moral reflection, and calendar-style birthday record spaces into a refined presentation format intended for both private meditation and gift giving. The decorative binding presents flowing stylized floral stems and tulip forms in dark green and gilt against light green buckram, reflecting the influence of late 19th-century Art Nouveau ornament and gift-book design. Internally, the work includes twelve plates, devotional selections arranged by calendar date, and quotations from religious writers, poets, and moral reform figures. The combination of attractive design, institutional Christian Endeavor association, and surviving box gives the volume notable crossover appeal beyond standard religious material. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Light green buckram over boards stamped in gilt and dark green with flowing Art Nouveau floral decoration incorporating stylized tulip blossoms and intertwining stems across the front board. Gilt spine and cover titles. Housed in the original decorated publisher's gift box. Octavo. Pagination: x, [2], 2-373 pages including index. Illustrated with 12 plates including frontispiece after Thorwaldsen. Devotional entries arranged in calendar format with ruled spaces for recording birthdays. CONDITION: Near Fine. Minimal handling wear to the book itself, which remains unusually well preserved. Buckram bright and fresh with gilt still attractive. Publisher's gift box remains solid and presentable with light handling wear, two split/open corners, and two small spots to the front panel. Retains the issued glassiline dust jacket. A notably superior survival for a boxed devotional volume of this period. SCARCITY NOTE: OCLC/WorldCat records approximately 13 institutional holdings. The title appears infrequently in the trade, particularly in the original publisher's gift box. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Rev. Francis E. Clark founded the Christian Endeavor movement in 1881, helping shape one of the most influential Protestant youth and lay organizations of the late 19th century. 'A Daily Message for Christian Endeavorers' presents scripture, poetry, devotional commentary, and inspirational quotations arranged in calendar form for daily reflection and communal religious life. The Art Nouveau binding and publisher's gift box reflect the period's growing emphasis on attractive devotional books intended equally for use, display, and presentation. SUBJECTS: Poetry, Art Nouveau Design, Gift Books, Decorative Bindings, Christian Endeavor movement, Francis E. Clark, devotional literature, Art Nouveau binding, Protestant devotional, boxed gift book, Victorian religion, daily meditation, religious gift editions, late 19th century Christianity, decorative religious bindings, Christian youth movements, Thorwaldsen frontispiece, devotional calendar book.