The History and Records of the Elephant Club Part 24

REV. SPENCER H. CONE, D.D.

PREPARED BY HIS FAMILY

_484 pp. 12mo. Bound in Muslin, Printed on fine white paper, Price $1.25_

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Dr. Cone, late pastor of the First Baptist Church, city of New York, was one of the most remarkable men of the present age, his life was full of romance and incident, as as well as a bright example of Christian virtues; the volume should find a welcome at every fireside, and a place in every family library.

Among the numerous testimonials from all sections of the country, we take pleasure in quoting the following:

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

"A Biography of a famous preacher and man, written with power and eloquence."--_Philadelphia Evening Post._

"Its perusal will be grateful to every person who admires active piety and can appreciate Christian virtues."--_Family Journal, Albany._

"Spencer Houghton Cone, one of those good and faithful servants whose career exemplifies the surpa.s.sing beauty of a genuine religious life.

The work is produced in elegant form, with a superb engraving of Dr.

Cone. It deserves a place as a standard of good works and deeds in all families."--_N.Y. Daily News._

"Its subject, one of the first men, and leading minds, for years, in our denomination, will ensure it a wide circulation."--_Richmond, Va.

Herald._

"Mr. Cone's reputation as an eloquent and fervent minister of the Gospel, as a strong, clear, earnest thinker, was acknowledged throughout the Union."--_Boston Gazette._

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"America has produced but few so popular preachers, his personal influence was unbounded, he was indeed a man of talent, of large attainment in the school of Christ, a brilliant preacher, and a n.o.ble-hearted, zealous Christian philanthropist."--_Christian Chronicle, Philadelphia._

"The volume is a profoundly interesting life-memorial of one of the most active, earnest, eloquent and sincerely religious spirits of his age and generation. Spencer H. Cone was a very remarkable man, and from a perusal of his life, we are convinced that selfishness and narrow-mindedness had no place in his nature. He appears to us to have been a model of earnestness, sincerity, activity, and intelligence."

--_New York Evening Mirror._

"The volume is a straightforward simple narrative of the public and private life of Dr. Cone, from his youth up to the period of his death.

It will be read with interest by thousands out of the denomination to which Dr. Cone belonged, as well as by thousands of his own denominational friends and admirers."--_Christian Secretary, Hartford._

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A WORK OF GREAT POWER AND INTEREST.

JUSTICE IN THE BY-WAYS.

BY F.C. ADAMS.

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"Mr. ADAMS, the author, formerly editor of the _Savannah Georgian_, is qualified by a residence of five years among the nullifiers of the Palmetto State to exhibit a correct and graphic likeness of their society and manners."

This is emphatically a work of our age. Its life is its TRUTH. Its breath its FACT. It is history in the guise of fiction, history whose accuracy is attested by public records and State doc.u.ments. Each character is a living reality. It is a book eminently suggestive of much needed moral reforms. It is not sectional. It hits North and South. It shows the social evils generated by Slavery in the one, and by neglected poverty in the other. It pictures the follies and vices of worn-out Southern chivalry; the crimes of the forsaken wretches in the Five Points; and the sordid sin which luxuriates in our Fifth Avenue palaces.

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