First edition, 1st printing. 1958 Abington Press. The book is in very good shape with light wear to cover. The DJ is in good shape with some wear and tears along the edges, some have been repaired with acid free archival tissue. Former owner's name on front endpaper. No markings to text. Ships in a box
Frontier Bishop: The Life and Times of Robert Richford Roberts 1778-1843 by Worth Marion Tippy Hardcover Vintage Book
The years from the close of the American Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century saw a rapid expansion westward of this country's frontiers. This was the time of the movement of population from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pennsylvania frontier and on into the valley of the Mississippi. It was a time when families lived close to the soil, cleared the forests, built rude log homes, and wrested their subsistence from the earth, frequently in terror of Indian massacres. It was also the period of the founding of the Methodist Church in the United States, and of its subsequent advance west.
Robert Richford Roberts was the embodiment of the American pioneer, and his life story is bound up with his country’s and his church’s growth.
Born in 1778 in Maryland of Church of England parents, Robert Roberts was converted as a lad of fourteen and joined the Methodist Society two years later at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, on the Redstone Circuit. He was ordained by the great Asbury at the Baltimore Conference of 1804. Consecrated a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of thirty-eight, he was one of the youngest men ever to be elevated to the episcopacy.
Here is the authentic, fascinating story of his brilliant life—a life of contrasts, change, and readjustments made necessary by the very nature of his calling. Here was a Methodist minister with a lifelong distaste for the shouting and excitement of camp meetings. Here was the pastor of Baltimore’s famed Light Street Church, reluctantly leaving his beloved farm in Pennsylvania’s Shenango Valley to take a city pulpit—the first of many. Here was a man received by President Madison at the White House—a man who soon after, outshot a company of soldiers at target practice in the wilds of Indiana!
It was Roberts the bishop—a cosmopolitan now, with expanded horizons—who chose Indiana as his episcopal residence. Not only did Bishop Roberts foresee that the future of his church lay to the west and south, but Indiana was frontier—and the frontier always called Robert Richford Roberts.
Bishop Roberts died at his home in Lawrenceport, Indiana, in March 1843. He and his beloved wife, Elizabeth Oldham Roberts, are buried side by side at Greencastle on the campus of DePauw University, which he was instrumental in founding.
Frontier Bishop is an absorbing account of a colorful and vigorous individual, as well as an important contribution to our understanding of the role of the Protestant churches in the westward expansion of the United States.
This rare and collectible book is a must-have for biography enthusiasts. The Frontier Bishop: Robert Richard Roberts Pioneer Biography Book by Worth Marion Tippy is a first edition hardcover book that comes with a dust jacket. The book is in English and was printed in 1958 by Abingdon Press.
The book's special attributes include its originality and the fact that it is a biography of a notable figure in North America's history. The book's topic is Biography & Autobiography, and the subject is also Biography & Autobiography. This book is a great addition to any collection and is sure to be a conversation starter.