Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco, California
Subtitle: embracing incidents, triumphant death scenes, etc.
By: by Rev. William Taylor ... Ed. by W.P. Strickland.
Contributors: Strickland, W. P. 1809-1884.
Publisher: The author
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Evangelistic work.; Ethnic groups -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; Mines and mineral resources -- California.; San Francisco (Calif.)
Description: William Taylor (1821-1902) was a Methodist minister specializing in "street preaching" in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., when the Methodist church sent him to California as a missionary evangelist in 1849. He remained in the West for seven years, going on to become one of the church's most tireless worldwide evangelists. He later conducted crusades in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. In 1884 he was named Missionary Bishop for Africa and he focused his energies on missionary activities on that continent. Taylor spent his last years in California, the site of his first mission. Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco (1857) offers Taylor's memoirs of his career in the West, concentrating on open-air evangelism in general and experiences on the street corners of San Francisco and Sacramento and in camp-meetings in the mine fields, 1849-1856. The book focuses on the nature of the sinners who repented at Taylor's words: drunkards, gamblers, seamen; and on the moral and political depravity of San Francisco that culminated in the creation of the Vigilance Committee. For a second installment of Taylor's memoirs, see California life illustrated (1858).
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