(RELIGION) BRYANT IRA T Book of Discipline of the A M E Chur

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"A SACRED RELIC" (RELIGION.) BRYANT, IRA T. Book of Discipline of the A. M. E. Church. Published by Order of General Conference held in Kansas City, MO, May 1912. By Ira T. Bryant, Compiled by Evans Tyree, James M. Connor, Benj. F. Lee, J. I. Lowe, Richard S. Jenkins and W. D. Johnson. 1912. 492 pages. 12mo, original black cloth, slightly faded with light wear; hinges tender. Nashville: A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1913

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first edition thus, 25th edition of the Book of Discipline. A label affixed to the front paste down states: "NOTICE. The owner of this book can boast of having a copy of the first edition of the Discipline of the A. M. E. Church that was edited, set, printed and bound by Negroes. During the nearly one hundred years of our existence as a denomination, the printing of the Discipline of the Church has been the work of white people. It remained for the Sunday School Union to show what the Negro himself could do. You should preserve this Discipline as a sacred relic for the pleasure and benefit of your posterity." OCLC locates only 4 copies.