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Article: Rum, Romanism, and Evangelism: Protestants and Catholics in Late-Nineteenth-Century Boston.
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- September 1, 1999
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On the morning of Wednesday, May 20, 1885, Boston police arrested three Protestant clergymen for preaching on the Common. News of the outrage traveled quickly, and within hours the city's evangelical Protestants were in an uproar. When the preachers--A. J. Gordon, pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist church; H. L. Hastings, editor of a locally popular evangelical periodical, the Christian; and W. H. Davis, superintendent of a mission in the North End--appeared at the Municipal Criminal Courthouse on Thursday morning, a crowd reported to be between four thousand and five thousand, "principally of the middle-class, well-dressed and well behaved," thronged the steps of the ...