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Sunlight and Shadow or,
Gleanings From My Life Work. Comprising Personal experiences and opinions, anecdotes,
incidents, and reminiscences, gathered from Thirty - Seven years' experience on the
platform and among the people. By John B. Gough. With full - page
engravings, and Steel-plate portrait of the author. I will restore to you the years that
locust hath eaten. Joel ii. 25.Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington and
Company. 1882.Maroon cloth, 9 x 6, 542 pages, outer
edge of covers faded, otherwise the book is in fine clean condition.
Everything is tight.
John Bartholomew Gough (1817-1886),
born in England, Gough immigrated to the United States when he was
twelve years old. He learned the bookbinder's trade and later took to
the stage. His mother died of a stroke and Gough, despondent, began to
drink. He married in 1838. The couple had a daughter but both mother and
child died within days of each other. By the age of 25, Gough was
unemployed, homeless, and a confirmed drunkard. In 1842 he attended a
temperance meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts where he took a pledge to
totally abstain from liquor. He began to tell his story to eager
audiences and soon embarked on a career of lecturing against the evils
of drink. During his career, Gough delivered some 9,600 lectures to more
than nine million people in America, Canada, England, Scotland, and
Ireland. Gough made three overseas tours and traveled extensively
throughout the United States becoming the most sought-after temperance
lecturer in the country. When he died in 1886, the New York Times wrote
that he was probably better known in this country and in Great
Britain than any other public speaker. Mr. Gough was one of this
country's most influential social reformers who helped to solve one of
America's most pressing problems.
Temperance/
Platform Echoes by John Gough; published by Worthington & Co. 1886.
Five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, humorous stories,
personal experiences and adventures, touching home scenes, and tales of
tender pathos; 225 engravings; 639 pages in very nice condition; one
illustration has come loose from the book and is there. Book measures 6
x 9
1870
Temperance Biography Glough Recollections
PLATFORM ECHOES John
Glough Temperance AA History Alcoholics Anonymous
PLATFORM ECHOES
antique, (1886),
pre-Alcoholics Anonymous type book, authored by John B. Gough, who was
the Bill Wilson of his era. This large book has 639 pages. The author
was a recovering alcoholic, through working with other alcoholics and by
applying the spiritual principles of Christianity. He was an
internationally famed speaker on recovery from alcohol, and his
following of Temperance crusaders held meetings and other methods of
recovery remarkably similar to A.A. You will find many quotes from this
book that make it obvious that A.A. founder Bill Wilson studied the
early sobriety movements for ideas on his own fellowship. For example I
noticed the phrases, total abstinance, and physically, morally and
spiritually sick, etc, etc. This book is loaded with tragic stories of
how alcoholism destroys lives and families, and just how widespread the
curse of alcoholism was in the 19th century. Many of the stories date
back to the early and middle 1800's; one chapter even went back to the
Revolutionary War. There is an interesting chapter on women's rights,
and the book has 227 awesome illustrations and engravings, many of them
full page, that bring the plight of alcoholism to life for the reader.
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