Louis Albert Banks was a Methodist preacher from the state of Oregon. He pastored churches in Boston, Kansas City, Denver and Cleveland. He was widely known and published in his time, but, until now, few of his sermons can be found online. He was a dynamic speaker, eloquent and illustrative. Like all great preachers, he took the common truths of scripture and dressed them in direct and vibrant language. The First Methodist Church of Cleveland, Ohio was the scene of his greatest ministry as real revival was seen there for a time. He was a reform minded minister in all of his pastorates. He protested against the saloon keepers and was shot and severely wounded in Seattle. He took the side of the aliens in the Anti-Chinese riots. In Massachusetts, he called for the eight-hour labor law and protested the sweatshops in the cities.While pastoring in Boston, he ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Prohibition Party ticket. He was a child prodigy who entered college at the age of eleven. The Methodist denomination has declined dramatically in the years since this great man preached, but Banks was true to the Scripture and his Savior. Less