CIVIC PRIDE and CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS: A Sermon on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the City, May 25th, 1902

Printed by Request, F.A. Bassette Company, Springfield. 19 pages. Frontispiece engraving, North Church, Dedicated 1873; halftone: First North Church Meeting House, 1849-1872. 7 x 4.75", printed wrapper. Paul as Tarsus citizen, 'no mean city'; 'divine providence in drift of humanity cityward'; 'larger communities afford . . . superior educational, social, religious, commercial advantages'; problems of constant growth at others' expense; 'wickedness breeds by contact'; 'tenement house may be nursery of crime'; prosperity may precede hunger, hatred, anarchy; 'communal rights not merely utilitarian'; 'practical necessity to surrender individual rights for communal intellectual & ethical welfare'; 'we must take children of alien birth & foreign tongue & educate in public schools, inspire with ideals, principals of private morality & public virtue until fit to govern as native-born'. VG.