A True Revival of Religion

Protestants and the San Francisco Graft Prosecutions, 1906-1909

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4517331
AutoresDouglas Firth Anderson (autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas25-49
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1123876
OpenAlexW2059060449
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas63

Almost a year after the great earthquake and fire of April 1906, San Francisco clergyman William Rader declared, "We are having a true revival of religion." Writing in the San Francisco-based Congregationalist weeklyPacific, Rader was not referring to the visit of a mass evangelist; rather, he meant the graft prosecutions officially launched in October 1906 against the Union Labor party administration of the city. He compared Rudolph Spreckels, a reform-minded member of the city's financial elite who was helping to fund the prosecution, and Francis J. Heney, the lead prosecuting attorney, to the late-nineteenth-century revival team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey. "God is moving the city," Rader asserted, "and when a number of our Supervisors and other officials are sent to prison we will be more free.... Thank God the Christ spirit is not dead; it lives

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