Rare 1925 SIGNED Heber J Grant Prince of Peace Hardcover by WJ Bryan LDS Mormon

Description: Rare 1925 SIGNED Heber J Grant Prince of Peace Hardcover by WJ Bryan LDS Mormon_________________________________________ The Prince of Peaceby William Jennings BryanPublished by Zions Printing and Publishing Company (1925)SIGNED BY PRESIDENT HEBER J GRANT ON THE INCLUDED PRESENTATION SLIP TO ELDER JOEL RICKS Condition:Excellent++ Hardcover Book with a presentation slip, mounted to the front free end sheet which is signed by Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and given as a Christmas gift for Christmas 1925 to an Elder Joel Ricks as he left for the mission field. NO MARKS! The binding is tight and all 62 numbered pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The covers are near perfect, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:This is an interesting intellectual sermon on the existence of God and particularly on Christ. It explains why He is The Prince of Peace. It explains why Evolution doesn't make sense and gives an excellent analogy how it's hard to explain how a watermelon and the miracle of it's growth is. Very interesting. Not to mention... the person who gave this gift and signed it was none other than the presiding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the time, Heber J. Grant. So that was an exciting find all by itself! The Story of how this book came to be:In the 1920s, Bryan shifted his focus away from politics, becoming one of the most prominent religious figures in the country. He held a weekly Bible class in Miami and published several religiously themed books. He was one of the first individuals to preach religious faith on the radio, reaching audiences across the country. Bryan welcomed the proliferation of faiths other than Protestant Christianity, but he was deeply concerned by the rejection of Biblical literalism by many Protestants. According to historian Ronald L. Numbers, Bryan was not nearly as much a fundamentalist as many modern-day creationists of the 21st century. Instead he is more accurately described as a "day-age creationist". Bradley J. Longfield posits Bryan was a "theologically conservative Social Gospeler". In the final years of his life, Bryan became the unofficial leader of a movement that sought to prevent Charles Darwin's theory of evolution from being taught in public schools. Bryan had long expressed skepticism and concern regarding Darwin's theory; in his famous 1909 Chautauqua lecture, "The Prince of Peace", Bryan had warned that the theory of evolution could undermine the foundations of morality. Bryan opposed Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection for two reasons. First, he believed that what he considered a materialistic account of the descent of man (and all life) through evolution was directly contrary to the Biblical creation account. Second, he considered Darwinism as applied to society (social Darwinism) to be a great evil force in the world, promoting hatred and conflicts and inhibiting upward social and economic mobility of the poor and oppressed. As part of his crusade against Darwinism, Bryan called for state and local laws banning public schools from teaching evolution. He requested that lawmakers refrain from attaching a criminal penalty to the anti-evolution laws and also urged that educators be allowed to teach evolution as a "hypothesis" rather than as a fact. Only five states, all of them located in the South, responded to Bryan's call to bar the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bryan was worried that the theory of evolution was gaining ground not only in the universities, but also within the church. The developments of 19th century liberal theology and higher criticism in particular, had allowed many clergymen to be willing to embrace the theory of evolution and claim that it was not contradictory with their being Christians. Determined to put an end to this, Bryan, who had long served as a Presbyterian elder, decided to run for the position of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, which was at the time embroiled in the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy. Bryan's main competition in the race was the Rev. Charles F. Wishart, president of the College of Wooster in Ohio, who had loudly endorsed the teaching of the theory of evolution in the college. Bryan lost to Wishart by a vote of 451–427. Bryan failed in gaining approval for a proposal to cut off funds to schools where the theory of evolution was taught. Instead, the General Assembly announced disapproval of materialistic (as opposed to theistic) evolution Copyright © 2018-2024 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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