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28-455: From its founding in 1848 until 1861 The Independent was edited by a team of three prominent Congregational ministers: Joseph Parrish Thompson , Richard Salter Storrs , and Leonard Bacon . It was published and financed by a group of New York businessmen led by Henry C. Bowen of the silk wholesaling firm Bowen & McNamee. The editorial policy was strongly antislavery, which hurt the magazine's circulation initially, but it improved through

56-563: A centralized government was essential to their prosperity. Members of The Union League Club were instrumental in establishing The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870, Dr. Thompson was a member of the committee and founder of the museum. He was one of the speakers at the initial meeting held to discuss its foundation. In 1852, after the death of his first wife, Lucy Olivia Bartlett Thompson, he went to Palestine, Egypt, and other countries in Asia and Africa. He made subsequent, studies and writings about

84-665: A member of Skull and Bones . He pursued further theological studies at Andover Theological Seminary and New Haven, and was ordained pastor of the Chapel Street church in New Haven in November 1840. Joseph Parrish Thompson was pastor of the Chapel street church in New Haven from 1840 to 1845. During his years at New Haven, he was one of the originators of The New Englander , a Congregational quarterly review, later renamed

112-503: A partial plan and discussed it with leading citizens of the city. After the plan was set forth, they met with President Lincoln personally who approved the plan enthusiastically and participated in the proposed constitution. The War Department then gave the commission the same facilities of transportation it had awarded to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. After the death of President Lincoln, Andrew Johnson succeeded as President of

140-605: A time when the Union Army desperately needed regiments, Dr. Thompson united the parish to contribute $ 30,000 for a new regiment. His son, Sgt John Hanson Thompson died during the civil war. He was a member of the Union Army Co. A; 106th Regiment, New York Infantry (Sergeant). Dr. Thompson wrote a book of him entitled The Sergeant's Memorial, by his Father. His son was 21 when he died. After President Lincoln's assassination , Mary Todd Lincoln gave Dr. Thompson one of

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196-751: The Yale Review . He was called to the pastoral charge of the Broadway Tabernacle church, at one time the largest building in New York City, in 1845. He served there as pastor from 15 April of that year until 1871. Dr. Thompson preached the church's anti-slavery beliefs, supporting women's suffrage (voting) and promoting the abolition of alcoholic drinks. He frequently preached to a congregation of 2,500 parishioners. Black pastors were invited as guest preachers. William Lloyd Garrison , Frederick Douglass , and Sojourner Truth spoke at

224-737: The Union League Club in 1884 is considered instrumental to the club's goal of supporting the Union and abolition . The Union Leagues were a group of men's clubs established during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the Union , the Republican Party , and the policies of Abraham Lincoln . The founders aimed to win the political governing elite over to support of the Union and abolition. They also believed that

252-895: The Yale Review ), served as president of the American Union Commission, being a member of the committee to create the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art , played a major role in the development of 20 Congregational churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. and assisted the Treaty of Berlin with the religious liberty clause. Joseph Parrish Thompson was born in Philadelphia , August 7, 1819, the son of Isaac Thompson and Mary Ann (Hanson). He graduated from Yale University in 1838, having been

280-636: The 1850s to reach 35,000 by the beginning of the American Civil War . In 1861 Harriet Beecher Stowe 's brother Henry Ward Beecher , who had been a regular contributor to the magazine, became its editor. His assistant editor was Theodore Tilton , who succeeded Beecher as editor in 1863 and remained in the position until 1870. During Tilton's tenure, The Independent took up the cause of women's suffrage. It also published poetry and literary contributions by authors including Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Emma Lazarus , John Greenleaf Whittier , James Russell Lowell and Edward Eggleston , who

308-801: The 1920s. In 1924 its last owners moved it to Boston but it remained unsuccessful. In 1928 The Independent was merged with The Outlook to form The Outlook and Independent . Joseph Parrish Thompson Joseph Parrish Thompson (1819–1879) was an American abolitionist and Congregationalist minister. He was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York from 1845 to 1871, (also known as Broadway United Church of Christ and Second Free Presbyterian Church). His major life accomplishments include founding The Independent , an anti-slavery religious weekly started in 1848, contributing and managing The New Englander (later re-named

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336-728: The American Congregational Union and of the American Home Missionary Society. During 1848 until 1861 The Independent was edited by: Dr. Thompson, Richard Salter Storrs , and Leonard Bacon . The publication's goal was to promote Congregationalism and was also an important voice in support of abolitionism and women's suffrage . The Independent published Emily Dickinson 's poems and helped her become more prominent. Dr. Thompson often traveled to Washington, DC, where he spoke with President Abraham Lincoln about issues related to

364-709: The Civil War. Thompson collaborated further with President Lincoln through his work as president of the Christian Union Commission (also known as the American Union Commission). Joseph Parrish Thompson was one of the initial members of the Union League . Doctor Thompson's address " Revolution Against Free Government, Not A Right, But A Crime" about the rights of man and the principles of free government, delivered before

392-985: The Orient, and he became well known as art authority in Egyptology . Many of his writings were printed in the North American Review , the Bibliotheca Sacra , the Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, in Smith's Dict. of the Bible, and the revised edition of Kitto's Cyclop. of Biblical Literature. He published Egypt, Past and Present, in 1856. He was the brother-in-law of Daniel Coit Gilman , having married, as his second wife, Gilman's sister Elizabeth. At

420-549: The United States, and continued supporting the commission. "The principal work of the AUC was practical relief. In 1884 it sent donated clothing and blankets to Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida, adding stoves to its shipments to Memphis and Tennessee. It also provided assistance for the thousands of southern refugees who streamed into New York at the end of the war, renting a large building on 24th Street to house

448-503: The church. [1] Rioters tried to burn the church and Dr. Thompson's home in 1863, but they were stopped by members of the congregation. A Confederate sympathizer attempted to shoot Dr. Thompson during a worship service because of his deep loyalty to the Union. During his time at the Broadway Tabernacle, he also played a major role in the development of 20 Congregational churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Dr. Thompson convened

476-809: The differences between Otto Von Bismarck and Pope Pius IX , at the request of prince Bismarck, he prepared and published a work on the relations of Church and State in America. He also wrote "The Attitude of Germany in Regard to Ultramontanism," for which the Bismarck thanked him personally. When Bayard Taylor died, Dr. Thompson was nominated as a minister of the German government in Berlin. He declined this position, however. He spoke French and German very well, and frequently had occasion to lecture in those languages in

504-487: The editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the Review's website, included Thomas Mann , Henry Adams , Virginia Woolf , George Santayana , Robert Frost , José Ortega y Gasset , Eugene O'Neill , Leon Trotsky , H. G. Wells , Thomas Wolfe , John Maynard Keynes , H. L. Mencken , A. E. Housman , Ford Madox Ford , and Wallace Stevens . The current editor

532-504: The editorship of Hamilton Holt (Bowen's grandson), a strong proponent of the League to Enforce Peace and later the League of Nations . During the second decade of the twentieth century The Independent absorbed three other magazines: The Chautauquan (1914), Harper's Weekly (1916), and Countryside (1917). A printers' strike in 1919 was damaging to the magazine, which struggled with rising costs and changed hands several times during

560-547: The first national meeting of Congregational churches in Albany in 1852. About 500 ministers and delegates from 17 different states attended this historical gathering. Thompson supported mission activities around the world. The church carried out educational and religious activities in poor neighborhoods of New York City, including Hell's Kitchen, where it established the Bethany Mission in 1868. He also served as manager of

588-520: The president's canes. He, in turn, left it to the New York Historical Society . This walking cane had been the property of Henry Clay of Kentucky. He had received it from Judge William H. Robinson of Missouri, Robinson had gifted it to Mr. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, and Mr. Clay had given it to President Lincoln. The president's widow gave it to Rev. Dr. Thompson, "as a friend who her husband greatly honored." Rev. Thompson

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616-934: The public addresses which he delivered in Europe. In 1878, influenced by Dr. Thompson, the Berlin Congress inserted a religious liberty clause in the Treaty of Berlin, based on An Essay Toward Principles of International law to Govern the Intercourse of Christian with Non-Christian Peoples . This essay was presented at the Conference of the "Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations", at Bremen in September 1876. From 1873 until his death in 1879 he lived in Berlin. The American Union Commission

644-560: The women and children. To accommodate them in transit, the AUC placed beds on two steamers working between New York and Southern ports." "The U. S. Christian Commission was formed ...to provide to the armies and navies comforts and supplies not furnished by the Federal Government. It received its support primarily from the churches. During the four years of the Civil War it collected more than $ 2,500,000 in cash, besides immense quantities of stores and clothing. Needless to say, it

672-447: Was also briefly supervising editor, in 1871. It reached its highest circulation of 75,000 in 1870, the year in which Tilton retired as editor. Tilton was succeeded by Henry C. Bowen, who continued as both editor and publisher until his death in 1896, when William Hayes Ward became editor. Thereafter the magazine devoted less attention to religious affairs, and contained more political coverage and illustrations. This trend continued under

700-640: Was formed in 1864 by Reverend Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., and Reverend William I. Buddington, D.D. when they visited Tennessee as delegates of the Christian Commission. During the visit, both witnessed the terrible conditions of the country, and saw the great necessity of forming an organization to aid in rebuilding the places hurt by war, as well as the need of help to those who had suffered from it. They consulted with Andrew Johnson , then military Governor of Tennessee, who agreed with them on its importance. The reverends then returned to New York to form

728-710: Was one of the main speakers at the funeral ceremonies for president Abraham Lincoln held in New York city in Union Square. He also delivered a notable eulogy for the President before the Union League Club. The tremendous energy Dr. Thompson extended on behalf of the war effort, the abolition of slavery and his ministries at the Tabernacle, exhausted him, and he found it necessary to submit his resignation in late 1871. He moved to Germany in 1873. During

756-410: Was popular with the troops." Joseph Parrish Thompson was the author of a number of works, including: The Yale Review The Yale Review is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press . It was founded in 1819 as The Christian Spectator to support Evangelicalism . Over time it began to publish more on history and economics and

784-409: Was renamed The New Englander in 1843. In 1885 it was renamed The New Englander and Yale Review until 1892, when it took its current name The Yale Review . At the same time, editor Henry Wolcott Farnam gave the periodical a focus on American and international politics, economics, and history. The modern history of the journal starts in 1911 under the editorship of Wilbur Cross . Cross remained

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