Baker, Sheridan. The Hidden Manna : being A View of Christian Holiness taken from the standpoint of Personal and General Experience, with Scriptural Confirmations introduced with the Author's Experience. Boston: McDonald, Gill & Co., 1888. [11715]
Light blue publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & black, light edge-wear, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, tight. Steel-engraved portrait of the author with printed signature and tissue guard. 1 1/2 inch crack at bottom of title page hinge. 278 clean pp, 1 p. advert at end for "The Christian Witness, And Advocate of Bible Holiness." Very good. Hardcover.
No. 232 in Jones, A Guide to the Study of the Holiness Movement.
Rev. Sheridan Baker, D.D. (1824-1890), b. near Cadiz, Ohio; d. Coshocton, Ohio. Baker was a "Methodist Episcopal Church pastor, educator, evangelist, entrepreneur, and author." He was a Presbyterian preparing for the ministry "when he was converted on 2 February 1847, during revival services at a local Methodist church." He became a pastor and an evangelist with the Methodists as a member of the Pittsburgh Conference. In 1864 he began a successful mercantile business, but in 1874 returned to the ministry after claiming the experience entire sanctification after reading J. A. Wood's book, Perfect Love. "One of the most distinctive characteristics of Baker's teaching of holiness doctrine was his insistence on 'progressive holiness.' In his view, the experience of entire sanctification was not the end of one's spiritual quest but the beginning of a live or repeated 'anointings' of the Holy Spirit." - quotations from William Kostlevy, The A to Z of the Holiness Movement.
