Soul Magnets. Twelve Sermons from New Testament Texts.

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Scarce compilation of sermons by South Carolinian-native Rev. Henry Kuhns Spearman (1875–1928), a noted pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Harlem.

The son of formerly enslaved parents, Spearman was born in Newberry, S.C., and his father, Rev. Edward Daniel Spearman, was a minister of the A.M.E. Church in Abbeville, Newberry, and Greenwood, South Carolina. 

Rev. Spearman graduated from Lincoln University in 1901 and subsequently received a bachelor of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. In 1914, he earned a divinity doctorate from Allen University. He held various A.M.E. pastorates in Massachusetts and New Jersey. From 1925 until his death, he was pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Harlem. Founded in lower Manhattan in 1819, this church is one of the oldest Black congregations in New York City.

With a biographical introduction by A.M.E. historian, Rev. Richard R. Wright and testimonials from clergymen, including Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. Spearman’s wife, Elizabeth F. Spearman, wrote the foreword and complied the sermons.

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