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A Little Missionary Journey to a Great Missionary Area. Being A Fact Finding Itinerary To the West Indies South America the Republics of Haiti and Santo Domingo and Jamaica
1938525640New York: Missionary Department of the A. M. E. Church 1938. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Bishop R.R. Wright Jr. Introduction by Bishop D.H. Sims. Includes contributions from other ministers. Octavo. 47pp. Illustrated from photographs including a portrait of Berry as well as buildings and parishioners overseas. Wrappers moderately soiled cover and most of textblock with a pinpoint puncture later an impression title page with a tiny stain and very small V-shaped tear with a little bit of loss affecting one word of the title very good. An uncommon illustrated account of the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s missionary travels to the West Indies South America Haiti and Jamaica. Rev. Lewellyn Longfellow Berry was born in Hampton Virginia in 1876 and served as a pastor in the Virginia Conference and the North Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church see Butt History of African Methodism in Virginia p.228. At the time of writing he was the Secretary of Missions of the A.M.E. Church. He was also the author of A Century of Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: 1840-1940 and Missionary Devotional Guide 1949. OCLC locates seven copies of this travelogue. [Missionary Department of the A. M. E. Church(?) unknown
