Calvary Church Yesterday and Today by Samuel M. Shoemaker - First Printing - ODJ

Calvary Church Yesterday and Today by Samuel M. Shoemaker. This book is a first printing from 1936 with the original dust jacket.

This book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. The cover shows no wear. There is a stamp on the first page of the book. There is no other writing or markings in the book. The original dust jacket has experienced edge wear, fading and stains.

This rare book is a classic from Samuel Shoemaker and very hard to find.

About this book from the Foreword:

“THIS CENTENNIAL HISTORY of Calvary Church in New York marks the one hundredth year in the life of the parish, and contains the record of the past century.

Being the first church of any communion in this section of New York, then far "up-town," and standing for ninety years in its present location, its story will be found interesting far beyond the membership of the parish, and will commend itself to those who are interested in old New York, and especially in the neighborhood of Gramercy Park, many of whose historic characters, including the founder, Samuel B. Ruggles, have been closely associated with Calvary Church.

In recent years this local parish has come to have a wide reputation throughout the world, with an outreach all across our own country, and into many other lands. In distant places are many people who owe a personal spiritual debt to the parish, having been brought into touch with it through the new wave of spiritual life spreading through the world, which is called The Oxford Group. These people will find the last two chapters of the largest interest, being principally concerned with the church of the present time. But I should like the privilege, by means of this book, of introducing many of my friends to the past of Calvary Church, to the many fruitful lessons which are to be found in the study of it, to my distinguished and varied predecessors who have labored here, and into whose labors we of the present day have entered.“