From the plow to the pulpit: A spiritual autobiography - Softcover

Tommie F. Harper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937897779 ISBN 13: 9780937897775

Publisher: Centerpoint Press, 1986

Synopsis

A book, a piece of Americana, that balances autobiography, religious testament, and social history. Harper'sstory is set within the context of his times and circumstances--theearly twentieth century in rural Georgia. Provides agricultural,social, and religious history on topics ranging from cotton farming inthe early 1900s and the traditions and attitude of rural and smalltown Georgians during this period. The book can be read for its vivid recounting of social, agricultural, and religious conditions from1908-1938. It can also be read as a participant's description of lifewithin the professional ministry of a large and growing holinessreligious denomination. Finally, it can be read as a story of mancommitted in his service to God.

About this title

About the Author

Tommie Harper was born in 1908 and died in 1996. He grew up on a farm forty miles below Atlanta in the rural community of Brooks, Fayette County, Georgia. The neighbors said of him, "TomHarper cares only for his horse, his pistol, and his dogs. If hehasn't been killed by the time he's thirty, he'll be in the chaingang, convicted for life for killing someone else." For twenty yearshe was the community hellion. Then one night he went to a tentrevival. His plan was to cut the ropes on the tent...but he walkedaway a man of God. Tommie Harper preaced--and farmed--until he died.The last letter he wrote--the week before his death--was to theGeorgia Agriculture Market Bulletin. In the letter he asked, afterseeing a picture of such a feat in the Bulletin, for information onhow to grow sweet potatoes in a wash tub. The last sermon he preaced inthe spring of 1996, weeks before his death, was as full of fervor andcommitment as the first he preached in a farmhouse in FayetteCounty, Georgia, the week after he was converted.

Review

All Georgia collections should have the book. It merits your serious consideration. -- The Georgia Librarian, Robert G. Gardner, Shorter College

Harper's autobiography is a remarkable full account ... it offers much on a variety of levels that should appeal. -- The Georgis Historical Quarterly

I commend it as a worthy book which will be profitable for laypersons and preachers alike. -- Dr. Ray H. Hughes, President, The Church of God School of Theology

About this edition

• Publisher: Centerpoint Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0937897779
• ISBN 13: 9780937897775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Elizabeth Harper Neeld