Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
On the northwestern edge of Pennsylvania, a church took root where the map still felt unfinished. Faith built a frontier shoreline.In Lakeside; A Memorial Of The Planting Of The Church In Northwestern Pennsylvaina., Samuel John Mills Eaton shapes a church history narrative from remembrance, record, and place. Part religious memorial volume, part local history collection, it follows the slow work of church planting history among pioneer settlement histories, tracing how early American congregations gathered, organised, and endured through the Pennsylvania frontier era. Read for its clear-eyed devotion and its sense of community-making: frontier Christian missions meeting everyday lives, and American church history told at human scale. Its value lies in the way memory becomes evidence: names, dates, and decisions fixed on the page before they faded. You feel the grit of settlement, and the quiet authority of shared belief. For readers of northwestern Pennsylvania history, the book offers a valuable thread through families, meetings, and milestones, with genealogy and church records that help connect names to the landscape.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. This classic reprint edition honours Eaton’s memorial purpose while giving modern readers a trustworthy window into the origins of a congregation and the wider currents that shaped it. Keep it for the story, return to it for the details, and shelve it alongside the best regional chronicles and enduring works of faith.
