Perhaps works like this need revisited again; we've grown so used to compartmentalizing structures from private Christian practice, perhaps still unnecessarily reeling from the "social gospel," that we probably need the voices of Wilberforce and Chalmers to speak to us again and remind us that the job is "heaven come to earth" and that this often takes money, physicality, and investment in the poor, underprivileged, and marginalized. Chalmers today would likely be accused of being a "leftist" on this issue, which is a bit wild since he mentored and influenced Horatius and Andrew Bonar, Edward Irving, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, David Brown, and so many other of the classic Scottish Presbyterian Evangelicals of the early and mid-19th century.
He is also deeply aware that capitalism without Christ is just selfishness, greed, and leads to oppression as those with more money have more opportunity to amass more money, deepening income disparity, etc.,
We believe this to be the first appearance of it in America.
Chalmers, Thomas. The Application of Christianity to the Commercial and Ordinary Affairs of Life, in a Series of Discourses. New York. Samuel Campbell & Son. 1821. 193pp.
Original card covers with paper labels, some wear at extremities, but good, solid and clean.
