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Longing for Jesus: Worship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 1895–1913 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third volume, Longing for Jesus, Lester Ruth vividly portrays a prominent African-American holiness church in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early twentieth century. Ruth’s rich selection of primary documents presents readers with a vibrant snapshot of this dynamic church and its pastor, Charles Price Jones, caught between factors that threatened the existence of the congregation itself:...

At the start of the twentieth century, a city cemetery sat across the street from Christ Tabernacle (or Temple),1 a new church in Jackson, Mississippi. The juxtaposition of the two could not have been more ironic. On one side of the street lay the resting bodies of governors, mayors, and Confederate soldiers and generals, scattered among the corpses of other notables and
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