Greatness. By Henry Ostrom, The Winona Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
 
Religion
Vintage from the 1900s
 
A Me­tho­dist min­is­ter, Os­trom was as­so­ci­at­ed with the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute, start­ing in 1921. He wrote un­der his pseu­do­nym be­cause he felt freer to use his songs in ev­an­gel­is­tic meet­ings if he didn’t draw at­ten­tion to him­self as the au­thor.
Henry Egerton Foster Ostrom (1862–1941)
Pseudonym: George Walk­er Whit­comb.
 
His works include:
Out of the Cain-Life, 1896.
Greatness, 1904.
Hymns and Spi­ri­tu­al Songs, with John Hill­is, 1904.
The Law of Pray­er, 1910.
The Jew and His Mis­sion.
 
Light brown with fancy black and dark red highlight to cover title, dark red spine title and yellow top edge. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear with a slight sun darkened spine edge. Original owner gift inscription at the front endpaper dated 1907. Nice overall. Almost 6-3/4 x 4-3/4 with 100 pages. Scarce.