THE UMPIRE IS WATCHING
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(RELIGION.) KEMP, REV.
Base Ball Sermon.
Single typewritten folio page,
accompanied by a small photograph of the reverend Kemp. An inscription on the reverse
states: “Rev. Kemp, our beloved pastor, love Johnnie.” And the dates (1918-1919); typed
page with some chips and a small archival tape repair.
Np, circa 1919
[500/700]
A wonderful sermon, using the game of baseball as a metaphor for life’s struggle of good versus
evil. “The arena where the game is to be played . . . The time has come . . . the Umpire. . . the
enthusiastic crowd yells and cheers . . . one of three things must happen, hit safe, walk or some-
body must err . . . the Apostle said, so run . . . A sacrifice sometimes will do more to win than
a home run. . . the Umpire is watching . . .Satan’s team is strong and cunning. . . his pitchers
throw balls all around . . .he makes you swing at them, and every now and then he puts a fast
one across the middle of the plate.” Finally the reverend reminds us that “The Game of life is
not over until Satan has pitched his last ball.”
WPA STUDY
576
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(RELIGION.) PAWLEY, JAMES A., Compiler.
The Negro Church in New
Jersey, Compiled by James A. Pawley and Staff.
51 mimeographed pages. Large 4to,
original mimeographed blue covers, evenly faded.
Hackensack, New Jersey: Works Progress Administration, 1938
[300/400]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
.
While OCLC, shows over thirty locations, no doubt distributed
by WPA, we could find no copy at auction in the last 25 years.
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(RELIGION.) SHAW, DANIEL W.
Should the Negroes of the Methodist
Episcopal Church be Set Apart in a Church by Themselves?
76 pages. Small 8vo,
original gray cloth, printed in black.
New York: Eaton & Mains, (1912)
[300/400]
FIRST EDITION
,
SCARCE
.
It is worth noting that this slender volume was republished by the
African Islamic Mission Press in 1988.
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