Moral Aspects of City Life

Lectures on the temptations, miseries, and duties of the modern city, delivered when New York's explosive growth was a new and alarming fact. Chapin surveys wealth and poverty, amusement, crime, and philanthropy, insisting that the Christian's business is not to flee the city but to redeem it. An early specimen of the socially engaged preaching for which he and his congregation were famous.

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