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The Trials Of Robert Ryland, Edward L. Ayers Jan 2013

The Trials Of Robert Ryland, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Robert Ryland tried to behave in a generous Christian way with the African-American people among whom he lived all his life even as he presided over what he recognized was a compromised form of the church. He faced skepticism and criticism from all sides, and experienced considerable doubt, but he pressed on.