Winans, William; Summers, Thomas O. [editor]. A Series of Discourses, on Fundamental Religious Subjects; including a Preliminary Discourse on the Divine Revelation of the Holy Scriptures. Nashville, Tenn.: Published by E. Stevenson & F. A. Owen, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855. First Edition. [10478]
Olive cloth, faded with frayed joints, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, 2 1/2 x 1 1/4 chew damage to bottom board. Steel-engraved portrait of the author, foxed with offsetting to the title page. Pages run [i]-xiv, 17-589, complete; generally clean with very slight foxing. Good. Hardcover.
Seventeen Discourses on fundamental truths, from the veracity of the Bible to the final judgment.
William Winans, D.D, (1788-1857), of the Mississippi Conference, b. in Pennsylvania, d. in Mississippi. "He was received into the Western Conference in 1808, and volunteered to go to the southwest section of country and perform pioneer work in the distant and sparsely-settled sections of Mississippi and Louisiana. He was a man of unusual mental power, united with great energy of character; and he became eminent both in the pulpit and in public movements...He was singularly plain in his attire, a diligent student, and a good writer." - Simpson, Cyclopaedia of Methodism (1879).
Winans was a principal leader of the move to institute the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, participating with vigor in the debates leading to the separation, and as a member of the Louisvillle Convention, which organized that church.
