1900's Religion | "Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden"

Speech

By: Washington Gladden

Date: 1903

Source: "Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden." In Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt, ed. The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems. Atlanta, Ga.: The Atlanta University Press, 1903, 204–207. Available online at http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/negrochurch/dubois.html (accessed January 11, 2003).

About the Author: Solomon Washington Gladden (1836–1918) was born in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, and in 1859 graduated from Williams College. In 1882 he became the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, where he served for the rest of his life. He authored more than three dozen books and frequently expressed his support of...