"If Jesus Came to Boston"

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Title"If Jesus Came to Boston"
Year for Search1894
AuthorsHale, Edward Everett(1822-1909)
Secondary TitleNew England Magazine
Volume / Edition ns 11.4 (os 17)
Pagination402-13
Date PublishedDecember 1894
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A response to 1894 Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! in which Hale presents a Boston so much better than the reality in supporting immigrants and the poor, that it can only be called a eutopia based on charity and welfare. See also M.W. Howard's If Christ Came to Congress.  Washington ,  DC : Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to “If Christ Came to Congress”. [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh's A Second Coming. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, which present contemporary reactions to a supposed Second Coming.
Additional Publishers

Also published as a book. Boston, MA: J. Stilman Smith & Co., 1894. Rpt. Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.
Author Note

(1822-1909)
Full Text

1894 Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909). “If Jesus Came to Boston.” New England Magazine, ns 11.4 (os 17) (December 1894): 402-13. Also published as a book. Boston, MA: J. Stilman Smith & Co., 1894.

A response to 1894 Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! in which Hale presents a Boston so much better than the reality in supporting immigrants and the poor, that it can only be called a eutopia based on charity and welfare. See also M.W. Howard's If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to “If Christ Came to Congress”. [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh's A Second Coming. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, which present contemporary reactions to a supposed Second Coming.