1892, The Story of Pot. Hooks by Rev. C.A. Jenkens, HB ILLUS PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION

Description: An interesting book with the subtitle, Society as Seen by a Backwoods Philosopher. Authored by Rev. C.A. Jenkens, just identified as C.A. Jenkens on the title page. The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration front board ands pine. Corners and top/bottom spine with moderate wear, light edge wear. Floral endpapers, small split of endpaper bottom of gutter between front board and first free floral endpaper, similar endpaper in back but without splits. There is a tissue-protected B&W frontispiece, and several additional B&W plates on glossy paper, without tissue protection. There is a small stain on top page edge, like a drop of water, that did not impinge onto the pages and cause any waviness. 378 string-bound pages, a few loose but still bound sections seen. The last listing photo shows a newspaper obituary found online for the author. The Rev. Charles Augustus Jenkens was a Baptist Pastor in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Virginia, and an author. Here is more from an online obituary in "Find A Grave": "... Rev. Mr. Jenkens is most well known for editing "Baptist Doctrines" published in St. Louis in 1880, a large and valuable work. He was at one time pastor of Louisburg church, then of Franklinton, and now of Oxford, where he would later serve as President of Oxford College. In May 1895, the Jenkens family removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey where Rev. Jenkens became pastor of the Livingston Avenue Baptist Church, a post he continued until 1900. During this time he was well known for his temperance lectures given throughout the South while he was on summer vacation. Returning to NC he later served as Pastor of Clayton Baptist Church and was for 4 years held the pastorate of Shelby First Baptist Church in Cleveland Co, NC, where the marked fruit of his labor was the erection of the handsome $40,000 church building. Rev. Jenkens retired from the ministry in 1911 and moved to Clayton to devote his time to writing. He wrote several novels under the name C. A. Jenkens, "The Bride's Return, or, How Grand Avenue Church Came to Christ." This novel, set in the fictitious city of Woodville, describes a church which had become chiefly a social club until a dedicated young minister comes along and reforms the church." B53

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