Lorimer, George C. Isms Old and New : Winter Sunday Evening Sermon-Series for 1880-1, delivered in the First Baptist Church, Chicago. Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1881. First Edition. [10240]
Clean green cloth with bright gilt titles, some light flecking, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, tight. Presentation bookplate from the estate of the Rev. John McClellan Holmes, D.D, to the Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, N. Y. 367 umarked pp., thin faint tidemark in the long margin throughout, most noticeable on the title page, small tear with loss to corner of the rear free end paper. Good. Hardcover.
"While it is preëminently the duty of the pulpit to expound the doctrines and precepts of Holy Writ, there are times when it should confront and challenge the insidious errors which unfit the public mind to receive attentively and believingly its expositions...We invite the wayward to accept Christ and be saved, and when we chide them for not doing so, we frequently overlook the fact that they are in sympathy with forms of thought which are irreconcilable with the claims of that volume on whose authority rests the duty so earnestly enjoined." - Preface.
The insidious errors herein refuted are Agnosticism, Atheism, Pantheism, Materialism, Naturalism, Pessimism, Buddhism, Unitarianism, Spiritualism, Skepticism, Liberalism, Formalism, Denominationalism, Mammonism, Pauperism, and Altruism
George Claude Lorimer (1838-1904), b. Edinburgh, Scotland; d. Aix-les-Baines, France. Lorimer emigrated to the United States (1856) in hopes of becoming an actor, but the influence of Rev. W. W. Everts led to his conversion. After graduating from Georgetown College in Kentucky (1859) he served as pastor of Baptist churches in that state, but is remembered best for his 21-year pastorate of the Tremont Temple in Boston and his nearly 100 books written and published. His last charge was at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.
