John Saillant, author of what I think is the most significant Haynes biography to date, Black Puritan, Black Republican, offered a kind endorsement:
“This well chosen selection from Lemuel Haynes’s writings represents a significant part of the earliest African-American engagements with the Reformed theological tradition. In that tradition Haynes and his black contemporaries, both American and British, found a language of justice and inspiration that allowed them to criticize slavery and racial prejudice, and to offer a Christian vision of a free society. “May We Meet in the Heavenly World” can be recommended to students of Christian theology and of American history.”
My brother Tony Carter wrote the forward. Many thanks, bro, for your faithful labors and encouragement.
Apart from a short biography considering some shaping influences on Haynes' piety and thought, the remainder is Haynes himself. Every since I read that first sampling of Haynes' ordination and funeral sermons, which are included in The Faithful Preacher, I've been impacted by his consistent heavenly-mindedness and view of meeting Christ in the world to come. The promise of eternity seemed to inform everything he wrote. I want to live like that. And I pray May We Meet in the Heavenly World helps me and you live that way as well.
Many thanks to the entire RHB family, especially Jay Collier for his tireless editing and project managing labors, for the joy and privilege of working on this volume.
I love no one on earth more than my wife of nearly 20 years, Kristie, whose constant example and exhortation is "serve the Lord with gladness." Thank you, babe. I see you in my eyes.
And most of all, thanks be to God who saved us by the blood of His Son and prepares a place for us in the heavenly world. Psalm 73:25-26.
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congratulations, thabiti, on another published book!
one of my church members is really enjoying 9 marks of a healthy church member
I'm really enjoying the faithful preacher myself
Looks like I need to expand my Amazon wish list by one more book. Thanks for laboring at the pen (or keys) so that many people can be encouraged by the life and work of men such as Haynes.
Brother Thabiti,
Thanks for this book. I received it from RHB just in time to take on my vacation to New England last week, and had it completely read before stepping off the plane at my destination.
It was very timely to reflect upon Haynes words while wandering close to where he ministered (He pastored for a short while in the town of my Dad's birth, Torrington, CT).
As I explored the grave sites of nine generations of my ancestors I was encouraged as I remembered Haynes desire for the world to come, and the promise of the resurrection.
Once again, thanks.
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