Research Catalog

Title

Select sermons / by Rev. Charles B.W. Gordon, pastor First Baptist Church, Harrison Street, Petersburg, Virginia ; with an introductory sketch by Mrs. Rev. Charles B.W. Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Charles Benjamin William, 1861-

Publication

• Petersburg, Virginia : C.B.W. Gordon and Company, 1889.
• ©1887.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gordon, Maggie W.
• C.B.W. Gordon and Company, publisher.
• Publishers' Printing Co., stereotyper.

Description

xi, [1], 420 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Baptists > Sermons
• Christian life > Sermons
• African American Baptists > Sermons
• Sermons, American
• Black author
• African Americans > Religion
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Gordon, Charles Benjamin William, 1861- > Portraits

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Volume 1." No more published?
• "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Rev. Chas. B.W. Gordon, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All rights reserved."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Electrotyped by the Publishers' Printing Company, 157 and 159 William Street, New York."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in pencil on back of frontispiece portrait "Mary Malone. Greensboro N.C. Presented by C.B.W. Gordon Petersburg Virginia." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introductory sketch -- 1. The coming Saviour -- 2. The science of spiritual light -- 3. The exaltation of Christ and the subjugation of his enemies -- 4. Greatness merited by service -- 5. Energy and perseverance -- 6. The memorial supper -- 7. Jesus talking by the way -- 8. The true teacher -- 9. The blessed invitation -- 10. The solemn warning -- 11. Prayer and its effects -- 12. The wheat and the tares -- 13. For or against -- 14. Christ's care for his people -- 15. Our God and the fiery furnace -- 16. The tree of life -- 17. The pre-eminence of God's law -- 18. The first commandment -- 19. The second commandment -- 20. The third commandment -- 21. Christ the law fulfilling -- 22. God wrestling with the sinner -- 23. Transgression acknowledged and sin forgiven -- 24. Our knowledge of God through Christ -- 25. Intercession for transgressors -- 26. Faith -- 27. Sin and its elements -- 28. Evin works -- 29. Spiritual offenses -- 30. God's visit in wrath -- 31. Christianity the nation's only safeguard -- 32. The word of God a sure guide -- 33. Recollection of past events -- 34. Out of the way of understanding in the congregation of the dead -- 35. Spiritual growth -- 36. Standing fast in Baptist faith -- 37. The good confession -- 38. The waters of Marah -- 39. The philosophy of man's existence -- 40. The future hope of the Negro -- 41. Individual responsibility -- 42. The kingdom of Christ -- 43. Truth revealed and sin exposed -- 44. God dwelling with Israel -- 45. The coming out from among the wicked -- 46. The divine commission -- 47. Charity -- 48. Meditation in sorror -- 49. The unspeakable gift -- 50. The church of Christ -- 51. The sure foundation -- 52. Spiritual revelation -- 53. The wise tower builder, counting the cost -- 54. The two kings -- 55. Christ, the world's ambassage -- 56. Total submission to the cross.

Call Number

Sc Rare 252-G (Gordon, C. Select sermons)

OCLC

28595214

Author

Gordon, Charles Benjamin William, 1861- author.

Title

Select sermons / by Rev. Charles B.W. Gordon, pastor First Baptist Church, Harrison Street, Petersburg, Virginia ; with an introductory sketch by Mrs. Rev. Charles B.W. Gordon.

Publisher

Petersburg, Virginia : C.B.W. Gordon and Company, 1889.

Copyright Date

©1887.

Edition

Fourth edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 252-G (accession no. B526934) inscribed: in pencil on back of frontispiece portrait "Mary Malone. Greensboro N.C. Presented by C.B.W. Gordon Petersburg Virginia." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Gordon, Maggie W.

C.B.W. Gordon and Company, publisher.

Publishers' Printing Co., stereotyper.

Gordon, Charles Benjamin William, 1861- inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 252-G (Gordon, C. Select sermons)