Author: BONNELL, REV. JOHN SUTHERLAND
Title: Power to Live at Your Best a Series of Three Sermons
Description: New York: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 0. Stapled wraps. c1940. This is a small format booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front cover of the book. "It was neither a mystery nor an accident how Canada’s Own became a minister at the “Cathedral of Presbyterianism” in New York City. Bonnell was a restless man, driven to communicate to a wider audience than what he had in Canada. He headed for NYC on more than one occasion while at Westminster Church, conferring with people of influence in the city and making himself visible. Eventually, he did find a wider audience. Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was a very visible and highly respected pulpit. He followed ministers of substance there and acquitted himself well. The New York Times reported on his sermons every week. He had the opportunity to broadcast regularly on radio station WABC to an audience of perhaps three million listeners. He initiated a dial-a-prayer telephone ministry (Bonnell is credited with being the first minister to use this means of reaching people in need of pastoral care). Bonnell also became a confidante of Billy Graham. He accompanied the Graham on a preaching crusade to Scotland in 1955, and was honoured by Graham on the platform during public meetings in his New York Crusade in 1957. (And was also roundly reviled by Fundamentalist clerics in the U. S as the Devil’s minister in his association with Graham. **) " (from the Westminster United Church website). Very Good+ .

Keywords: Religion Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Science


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