Hodges, C. W.; Parker, H. I. [Introduction]. Sermons. Burlington: Published for the Author, by Chaunuey Goodrich, 1850. First Edition. [11854]
Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt to spine, light edge-wear, joints good, tight, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Author's gift inscription on the ffep, "Betsey Y. Johnson was Baptized by the Author - C. H. Hodges," with the death notice of Mrs. Johnson clipped from a newspaper and pasted below the signature. (She was from Warrensburgh, NY, was 77 years old when she died and had been baptized by Hodges in 1828). Steel-engraved portrait of Hodges with tissue guard as frontispiece. 296 pages, foxing. Good. Hardcover.
No. H4688 in Starr, A Baptist Bibliography.
Twenty two sermons on evangelical themes.
Includes the sermon Dancing by Professors of Religion, the text being Ephesians 5:22, "Abstain from all appearance of evil."
Cyrus Whitman Hodges (1802-1851), b. Leicester, Vermont; d. Bristol, Vermont. His father died when he was six years of age, and he was placed with a family with no religious interests, where he grew up ignorant of the gospel. He was afterwards placed in a Christian home, and their warm and loving family life influenced him greatly. He professed faith at the age of nineteen and joined with the Congregationalists. He became convinced of the Baptist way of baptism, and united with them in 1822. He was licensed to preach, and later ordained. He served as pastor of churches in Vermont and eastern New York State.
"While, however, the social and intellectual character of Mr. Hodges always commanded respect, his chief claim to an affectionate remembrance in the church must rest upon his moral virtues. He wa a true Christian Pastor. He believed heartily, entirely. He lived under a constant sense of responsibility, and laboured as one who expected to give an account of his stewardship. This sincerity, this thorough consecration to his work, was the true secret of his effective and useful ministry." - Rev. Sewall S. Cutting, in Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. 6 p. 726.
