Maxwell Pierson Gaddis: 6 books

Maxwell P. Gaddis collected a number of sermons from the junior preachers of this Ohio conference in 1851, and, also, a number of sermons and sketches from distinguished and beloved ministers who have died in the work. Brother Gaddis proposed to publish said sermons and sketches in a book to be called...

The life of the late Rev. George Washington Walker, by Rev. Maxwell P. Gaddis, is a volume filled with matter at once historical, feelingly religious, and possessing the attractions of romance, though its facts and incidents are strictly true, and without exaggeration. The volume, too, gives proof...

Last words-words spoken in the presence of death, eternity, and a nearness to God,-are a treasured legacy to survivors. Of the poorest and meanest son of Adam, even of the criminal on the gallows, it is eagerly asked, 'How did he die?' 'What were his dying words?' What wonder, then, that Christians...

Charles R. Baldwin was of a highly respectable family and well educated – a man of superior intellectual endowments, a highly gifted attorney, floating on a tide of great worldly prosperity, and standing high in the estimation of his fellow citizens. But immediately after his conversion to God,...

Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant," which has been reprinted dozens of times.

The preparation of this work of one hundred and seventy short biographies has been a blessing to my own soul. It has revived the happy hours of the past, in my itinerant life, when gentle looks and words of welcome thrilled my heart in the quiet homes of those saintly women, to whom the Master has...