Humanity in the city

The companion volume to Chapin's 'Moral Aspects of City Life,' and perhaps the finest fruit of his Sunday-evening lectures to the crowds of young men adrift in antebellum New York. Where the earlier series anatomized the city's temptations, this one finds religious meaning in its human spectacle — the faces in the street, the strife of classes, the poor, the toiling masses — arguing that the city is not a moral wilderness but the very field where Christian brotherhood must be proved. Urban social preaching a generation before the social gospel had a name.

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