Recollections of Persons and Events, chiefly in the City of New York: being Selections from His Journal
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Link Singerman ID: supp1697
Year: 1865
Entry: Mathews, James McFarlane. Recollections of Persons and Events, chiefly in the City of New York: being Selections from His Journal. New York: Sheldon & Co., M DCCC LXV. 368 p.
Author/Editor: Mathews, James McFarlane
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Recollections of Persons and Events, chiefly in the City of New York: being Selections from His Journal
Printer/Publisher: Sheldon & Co.
Language: English
Notes: Chap. 13 includes a discussion of New York’s abysmally low level of religious observance, likened to "religious destitution" (p. 279); includes statistical data for the city’s churches (by denomination) and synagogues in 1810 and 1864 (p. 280). In sharp contrast to New York, Rev. Mathews extols the "moral influence" and spirituality of Jerusalem in ancient times, especially its centrality for "the people of Israel" as "a citadel of truth and worship" (p. 286).