Hero Souls Filled with New Wine! A Parable of the Living Air of San Francisco

San Francisco: By the author, 1912. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-12; speckled grey wraps, printed in black; very minor fading and spotting to wraps; faint discoloration to fore-edge of first several leaves; very good condition.An exuberant sermon on life in the City by the Bay by Baptist Preacher Charles F. Aked, it was delivered at The First Congregational Church of San Francisco on March 3, 1912. Aked was born in Nottingham in 1864 and, while still very young, became famous for taking on a dying church at Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool and quickly revitalizing it. His first lecture tour of the United States in 1893 was a roaring success. He would eventually accept the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York in 1907.