Author: Jones, Jenkin Lloyd [1843 - 1918]. Weston, Olive E. - Compiler
Title: NUGGETS From A WELSH MINE. Selections from the Writings of Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Description: Chicago: Unity Publishing Company, 1902. 1st Edition. Brown quarter cloth with grey-brown boards, tan title block to front board, gilt lettering to spine. viii, 127, [7 (blank)] pp, plus 2 pp list of publications. Several unopened leaves throughout. 8" x 5-5/8". Ex university library, with only a small, one-line name stamp; no other library markings. Mild shelfwear, short closed tear and minor soil to pg vi. Interior otherwise clean, binding tight. VG+. Jones was a Unitarian minister and the founder of All Souls Church, in Chicago; he also founded the Abraham Lincoln Centre, the church's community outreach program, and to which this book is dedicated, and became a prominent pacifist during WWI. Weston has compiled these selections of Jones writings under various themes -- Home, Individual, Church, Love, etc -- and notes that they "are taken chiefly from the two books in the Bits of Wayside Gospel series entitled, 'Jess' and 'A Search for an Infidel.'".

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