Before the Dawn
by Toyohiko Kagawa
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. First. Very Good-. A very good copy in brown cloth with red titles and design on spine and front cover Covers shown minor bumping and rubbing Front hinge cracked, but no other marks or damage at all Text is clean and unmarked
"The agonies of a young [Japanese] idealist who burning with love for his fellowmen, staggers under the realization of their heart-breaking burdens, and with the stiffening of his spirit which led from dreams to action"
Toyohiko Kagawa (1888 â€" 1960) was a Japanese Protestant Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labor activist Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy
Arthur Miller once wrote about hearing Kagawa give an evangelical lecture in Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in 1935, and describes him as "a merchant of the sublime" 398 pp.
"The agonies of a young [Japanese] idealist who burning with love for his fellowmen, staggers under the realization of their heart-breaking burdens, and with the stiffening of his spirit which led from dreams to action"
Toyohiko Kagawa (1888 â€" 1960) was a Japanese Protestant Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labor activist Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy
Arthur Miller once wrote about hearing Kagawa give an evangelical lecture in Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in 1935, and describes him as "a merchant of the sublime" 398 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AA1373
- Title
- Before the Dawn
- Author
- Toyohiko Kagawa
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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