Haygood, Atticus G. Sermons and Speeches. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883. First Edition. [10519]
Brown cloth decorated in black & gilt, spine ends and corner tips worn, joints good, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. 428 generally clean pp., tight; a few small marginal stains. Good. Hardcover.
This volume includes the two sermons on The New South, and The Negro a Citizen.
Haygood was the agent for the John F. Slater Fund from 1883 to 1890, a philanthropic organization that promoted education among freedmen of the South.
Atticus Greene Haygood, D.D. (1839-1896), b. Watkinsville, Georgia; d. Oxford, Georgia. Rev. Haygood was “president of Emory College, Georgia, was born in Clark Co., Ga., Nov. 19, 1839; converted in early childhood, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1854; was licensed to preach in 1858, and graduated at Emory College in 1859. The same year he was received on trial in the Georgia Annual Conference, and served on various stations and circuits, and as chaplain in the Confederate army until 1867, when he became presiding elder of the Rome district, and subsequently of the Atlanta. In May, 1870, he was elected by the General Conference Sunday-school secretary of the M. E. Church South, and was re-elected in 1874, but resigned to accept, in December, 1875, the presidency of the college which he now fills. Dr. Haygood has written many articles for the press, and is the author of ‘Go or Send,’ a prize essay on missions, and of a work entitled ‘Our Children.’ He was a member of the General Conference of the M. E. Church South in 1870 and 1874.” – Simpson, Cyclopedia of Methodism (1878).
