Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

1825–1860

Uses and Abuses of the Bible

Source: Michael Warner, American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr., (New York: Library of America, 1999), 630ff. What are the abuses and what the proper uses of the

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1825–1860

Religious Experience

Source: Olive Gilbert, ed., Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Boston, 1850), 59-73. . . . She had no trouble now; her every prayer had been answered in every minute particular. She

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1917–1929

Holiness Camp Meetings

Source: Hannah Whitall Smith, My Spiritual Autobiography or How I Discovered the Unselfishness of God (New York: 1903). As may be imagined, we took every possible opportunity of learning all

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1877–1917

The Do Everything Policy

Source: Frances Willard, Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union (London: White

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1917–1929

Stimulants and Narcotics

Source: Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, (Washington, D. C: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1905), 325–335. Stimulants and Narcotics Under the head of stimulants and narcotics is classed

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1929–1941

Houses of Hospitality

Source: Dorothy Day, “Houses of Hospitality,” The Catholic Worker (December 1936), 4. Courtesy of “The Catholic Worker Movement” website at www.catholicworker.org. During this last month news comes in that our

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