Broadway Tabernacle Church (New York, N.Y.)

The catalog heading names the Broadway Tabernacle, a well-known New York evangelical congregation organized in the 1830s for the revivalist Charles G. Finney that became a leading Congregational church. The volume catalogued here, Providence and Life (1869), is not connected with that church: it collects sermons by the Universalist preacher Edwin H. Chapin, delivered in the "Broadway Church," the Broadway building occupied by the Fourth Universalist Society (later the Church of the Divine Paternity), which Chapin led from 1848. The attribution appears to rest on the similarity of the two churches' names.

Select sermons from the Broadway pulpit, issued by the Cincinnati house of Williamson & Cantwell — evidence of Chapin's national audience. The themes are his mature staples: providence in history and in the individual life, read through the confident faith of post-war liberal religion.

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