Additional information can be found in a biographical sketch on Marietta's site.
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Perry User Guide
Robert 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 Perry's sermons. It includes the title, sermon text, date and place the sermon was preached, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Education and Service: Sermons and Addresses Delivered while in Office at Marietta College, 1900-1912
Alfred Tyler Perry
The "sermons" in this book are the 12 baccalaureate sermons Perry delivered while president of Marietta. The "addresses" include his inaugural speech and talks he gave before such organizations as the Conference of Colleges of the Interior and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
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Pre-Eminence of the Bible as a Book: Inaugural Address of Alfred Tyler Perry, Professor of Bibliography in Hartford Theological Seminary, February 10, 1899
Alfred Tyler Perry
This address on “the supremacy of the Bible as a book among other books” (p. 6) was delivered outside Appalachia. It is included in the Library to help illustrate the full range of Perry’s oratory.
