HENSEY, JAMES A.(ANDREW) (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE CLEATON WILDING) — Poverty and Preaching the Truth About It

New York: The Methodist Book Concern, 1916. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Flexible leather. This is a smaller format book with flexible leather covers. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There are two previous owner's ink stamped name and addresses - one on the front endpaper, another on the title page. "The United Methodist Publishing House is the oldest and largest general agency of The United Methodist Church. It was established in 1789 in Philadelphia as the Methodist Book Concern. The Nashville operation was opened in 1854 as the publishing house for the Methodist Episcopal Church South. With the unification of three branches of Methodism in 1939, Nashville was chosen as headquarters for publishing operations for the united church. With the Evangelical United Brethren-Methodist merger in 1968, it became The United Methodist Publishing House. From the very beginning of the Methodist movement in England, John Wesley distributed books and pamphlets. He insisted that books belonged in every home, and he told his followers to beg from the rich in order to buy books for the poor. Prior to 1787, books for the early Methodists in the U. S. Were sent from John Wesley in England. But the 1787 Conference and the Discipline said the preachers and the people recommended that books be printed here in the U. S. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .