Facts and reasonings on church government, addressed to the members of the Broadway Tabernacle Church [electronic resource] / by their obedient servant and brother, David Hale. ; (Number II.).
Concerning Broadway Tabernacle's controversy with Lewis Tappan in 1839, the pending sale of the church under foreclosure of a mortgage, and the evils of its possibly becoming a theater. Hale, a Connecticut puritan and editor of the Journal of commerce, actually purchased the Broadway Tabernacle himself in 1840. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. "Additional copies of Facts and reasonings no 1 and no. 2, and of the report of proceedings against Lewis Tappan [i.e., Proceedings of the session of Broadway Tabernacle, against Lewis Tappan ... 1839], may be had, gratuitously, at the office of the Journal of Commerce, no. 71 Wall Street."--colophon, p. [2]. Printed in seven columns. Included on p. [2] are Hale's "Letters on the new theatre," signed "A father," first published in Boston in 1827. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints. AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
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