Neville, William G. Sermons. Richmond, Virginia: The Onward Press, 1908. First Edition. [4916]
Teal cloth with bright gilt titles, 8 x 5 3/4 inches, tiny white splatter spots top of spine and edge of back board, former owner's signature and ink names stamp on ffep (Sprinkle). Frontispiece of author with tissue guard, 348 clean pp., tight. Very good. Hardcover.
"These sermons, selected from a large number of carefully prepared manuscripts, are intended as a memorial of a faithful and beloved pastor, who for more than a quarter of a century, as an ambassador for Christ, besought men to be reconciled to God. They will be read with a tender interest by hundreds who sat under his ministry in his several pastoral charges in South Carolina and Kentucky, and by very many others who were privileged to hear the gospel from his lips, in his frequent ministrations in other congregations in different parts of the land. They will vividly call to mind the instructions, the warnings, and the tender expostulations of one who was truly in earnest in the work of the ministry, so that he being dead yet speaketh." - Preface.
William Gordon Neville (1855-1907), b. Oconee County, SC; d. Clinton, SC. Presbyterian pastor, President of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina. He received the degree of D.D. from Davidson College in 1904, and the degree of LL.D. from South Carolina College in 1905. He was a trustee of Davidson College and of the Columbia Theological Seminary.