McLees, Richard Gustavus. Opening Doors: My Life's Story. Weaverville, North Carolina: The Southern Presbyterian Journal, 1954. First Edition. [8260]
Light blue cloth with gilt titles, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, gift and provenance inscriptions on ffep, 87 generally clean pp., several b/w photo plates with foxing transferred from plate to opposite page. Good. Hardcover.
Richard Gustavus McLees (1864-1956), b. Greenwood, South Carolina; d. Danville, Virginia. He was blinded in a hunting accident while 14 years of age, and educated at the State School for the Blind in Macon, Georgia. He became a Sunday School superintendent, and to his surprise when the pastor fell ill the congregation appealed to the Presbytery of South Carolina to license him to preach in their church. In 1903 he was elected evangelist for the Synod of South Carolina and continued in the work until the end of 1907, when he was appointed as an evangelist to Florida. He continued his ministry in the South and did some traveling as an evangelist, all of which is related in the very interesting account of his life.