Stokes, E. H. What I Saw in Europe: A Series of Familiar Letters. Ocean Grove, New Jersey: Adam Wallace, 1884. First Edition. [10620]
Brick red cloth decorated in black & gilt, light edge-wear with the corner tips frayed, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, blue pattern to the end papers. Engraved portrait of the author with printed signature & tissue guard, publisher's preface by Adam Wallace, 216 pp., clean except there is a splash stain on the portrait of a sailing ship & first page of text. Good. Hardcover.
These letters first appeared as a weekly column in the Ocean Grove Record. His tour included Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and France.
Rev. Dr. Ellwood Haines Stokes (1815-1897), b. Medford, New Jersey, d. Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Rev. Stokes was one of the founders and first president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, serving in that capacity from 1869 until his death in 1897. He became a Methodist after his conversion in 1834, and was later ordained a minister. He conducted camp meetings and revivals, and in 1859 claimed the experience of entire sanctification, or the second blessing.
His ministry began to focus on the Ocean Grove camp meetings., and was known as "The Father of Ocean Grove." Rev. Stokes oversaw the construction of the Grand Auditorium, and led many projects that led to its growth, from drilling wells, laying the sewage system, installing electric lights and arranging the railroad and other roads, he was instrumental in the development of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. He devoted his life to the cause of Christ and the Holiness Movement, edited the Ocean Grove Record, and was the author of several valuable books as well as some holiness hymns.
