Four Princes: or, The Growth of a Kingdom - A Story of the Christian Church Centered Around Four Types (Paul, Constatine, Bernard, Luther)

J.B. Lippincott Co, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gilt on top edge. Purple boards with decorative cover and gilt lettering. . . . . . . TOC: I. Seed-Time: PAUL -- 1.) Paul, The Witness -- 2.) Paul, The Planter -- 3.) The Soil, The Season, and the Watering ---------- II. The Magic Blade: CONSTANTINE -- 1.) A Miracle of Growth -- 2.) The worm of Worldliness -- 3.) Development ---------- III. Hidden Ears: BERNARD -- 1.) A Second Constantine -- 2.) The Refuge from the World -- 3.) Bernard of Clairvaux ---------- IV. Ripening Corn: LUTHER -- 1.) The Awakening of Europe -- 2.) The Man for the Hour -- 3.) Results of the Reformation . . . . . . . . . James A. B. Scherer (1870 to 1944) served as the last President of the Throop Polytechnic Institute from 1908 to 1920 prior to its renaming to the California Institute of Technology in 1921. Before being asked by George Ellery Hale to serve as President of Throop, Scherer was a Lutheran minister, one of the founders of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church. He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.