Author: Alexander Jackson
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781372369995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander Jackson
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781331781653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Sunday Rest in the Twentieth Century: Containing an Account of the International Sunday Rest Congress at St. Louis; The Various Papers and Addresses Presented at It; Sketches of the Societies Which United in Holding It; And Portraits and Autographs of the Leading Advocates of Sunday Rest The International Sunday Rest Congress at St. Louis was unanimous in desiring that the proceedings of the Congress should be published in book form. Many of the papers read and the addresses delivered were very valuable, and were worthy of preservation for a much larger audience than could possibly have listened to them at the Congress. To carry out the plan by which the more valuable material should be preserved, the editor was chosen, first, by the Congress itself, and later by the Executive of the International Federation, and he was given full authority to edit and publish. An examination of the material placed in his bands led him to form the plan of producing an up-to-date book on the Sabbath question, and such a book as would be worthy of the subject, of the Congress, of the societies conducting it, and of the country. To realize this ideal, be found that it would be necessary almost to reconstruct the entire work. A few papers were in such finished literary form that it was not necessary even to cross a "t" or dot an "i: " but most of the papers needed more or less chiseling and polishing, some had to be rewritten by the authors, and still others had to be rewritten by the editor, while there were many gaps in the program which had to be filled. In filling the gaps, where the original appointee failed to supply the desired article, the interest of some able man in each special line was enlisted, and some of the brightest and most timely articles in the hook are the result. Thanks are due to a multitude of friends for manifold courtesies and much valuable assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1429932880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author: Gonzalez, Justo L.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0802874711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Authoritative yet accessible historical overview of Christian Sunday worship In this book noted Christian historian Justo Gonzalez tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present. After discussing the views and practices relating to Sunday in the ancient church, Gonzalez turns to Constantine and how his policies affected Sunday observances. He then recounts the long process, beginning in the Middle Ages and culminating with Puritanism, whereby Christians came to think of and strictly observe Sunday as the Sabbath. Finally, Gonzalez looks at the current state of things, exploring especially how the explosive growth of the church in the Majority World has affected the observance of Sunday worldwide. Readers of this book will rediscover the joy and excitement of Sunday as the early church celebrated it and will find inspiration in an age of increasing indifference and hostility to Christianity."
Author: Alfred Augustus Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes: A Brief history of the lyceum, by Anna L. Curtis, and: How to organize and manage a lyceum course, by Laurence Tom Kersey.