Children of the Tent; Or, the Work of God Among the Young 1859 RARE LIMITED ED

Description: This volume, very scarce in retail for at least the last two decades, was published in 1859 as a close-following sequel to Reverend Edwin M. Long’s The Union Tabernacle; or Movable Tent-Church. Long was a Philadelphia-centered nomadic tent-preacher, one of the earliest entrepreneurs in that vein, carrying his infrastructure with him—a spectacular showman in the Third Great Awakening.Only 12 copies of this are shown globally in major research libraries within WorldCat. Long’s slightly earlier Movable Tent Church volume shows just under 100 copies worldwide in major research holdings.A crucial document for mid-19th-century, and pre-Civil War, evangelical studies in the United States. Reverend Long’s multi-denominational “movable tent church,” which could hold 3000 needy souls, (and whose canvas was paid for by John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia department store fame), sheltered somewhere between 150.000 and 170,000 over the course of its many displacements. Including, it seems, many epistolary children.See https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Children_of_the_Tent_Or_the_Work_of.html?id=CMuRYhL5vnMC for ebook files

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