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Colllection of Original Sermons User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about the 3 Appalachia-related sermons included in the Collection. It includes the author, title, scripture text, date and place the sermon was preached (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Collection of Original Sermons
Thomas P. Akers
The Preface describes the 23 preachers in this collection as “distinguished ministers of their respective denominations”: “Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Cumberland Presbyterian” (pp. v, vi). The proposed “female college” would be built in Kentucky, but the ministers came from around the nation; only the 3 ministers with verifiable ties to Appalachia are included in the Library.
This collection was edited by Thomas P. Akers. It was apparently conceived as a reaction against plans to build a Catholic school for girls in Greensburg, a small town in central Kentucky. Members of several denominations were invited to contribute sermons to a book which would be sold to raise funds to construct a school that would advance “the cause of Protestantism” instead (p. vii). It was republished as
Sermons for the Home Circle: A Series of Twenty-Four Sermons by Eminent Ministers of Different Denominations, and Adapted to Supply Valuable Reading to the Family Circle (Boston: Benjamin B. Russell, 1859).
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