Boyd's National Baptist Pastor's Guide 1900 African American

Description: Boyd's National Baptist Pastor's Guide and Parliamentary Rules Author: BOYD, R[ichard] H[enry] Title: Boyd's National Baptist Pastor's Guide and Parliamentary Rules Publication: Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1900 Edition: Sixteenth Edition Description: 6.75 x 4.75", black cloth with gilt lettering to front cover, 87 pp. A guide for pastors of the National Baptist Convention, an African American Baptist denomination founded in 1895. The author, Richard Henry Boyd, was born into enslavement in Mississippi in 1843. In 1859, he was sold to a cotton plantation in Texas. After the Civil War, Boyd taught himself to read, and served as a Baptist minister in Texas, founding that state's first African American Baptist association. In 1896, Boyd moved to Nashville, where he founded the National Baptist Publishing Board and helped to found the National Baptist Convention. This title was an early publication of the National Baptist Publishing Board, which "dominated the market for black Baptist books and other materials" (Joyce, "Black Book Publishers," 160). This "Sixteenth Edition" bears a copyright date of 1900, although it may have been published in the ensuing couple of decades. Boyd writes in the preface that "I have felt that the Negro Baptist preacher has needed a brief manual suited exactly to his work...The Negro Baptist preacher is a great factor in the uplifting of a great people..." The text, meanwhile, contains chapters on all aspects of founding and operating a Baptist church, including "How to Organize a Baptist Church," "Powers and Duties of a Pastor," "Programme for the Installation of a Pastor," "Pastoral Visiting," "For the Bedside of the Sick," marriage services, burial services, Sunday school, letters of commendation, parliamentary rules, and much more. Covers worn and discolored, with chip to cloth at lower corner. Heavy toning to cheap paper, cracking to hinges. Five leaves as well as rear endpaper detached from binding, owner inscriptions of "Earlam Hayes, Oakdale, La" to pastedowns. Damp staining to margins of first few leaves, occasional small tear to paper along margins. Seller ID: 10848 Subject: African American Caroliniana Rare Books Antiquarian and collectible books, primitives and antiques. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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