American Decades
"The Church and the Labor Question"
Magazine article
By: Washington Gladden
Date: May 6, 1911
Source: Gladden, Washington. "The Church and the Labor Question." The Outlook 98, no. 1, May 6, 1911, 36.
About the Author: Washington Gladden (1836–1918), a Congregationalist clergyman, was born on February 11, 1836, in Pennsylvania. Gladden ministered to various congregations in New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio. Often called the father of the Social Gospel movement, he became an early advocate of connecting Christian principles to contemporary social problems. He died on July 2, 1918, in Columbus, Ohio, where he had been serving as pastor and pastor emeritus at First Congregationalist Church.
Introduction
Washington Gladden, one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement, began working at the Owego Gazette and wrote local news. He resumed his education in 1855, graduated from Williams...
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1910's Religion Primary Sources
- A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
- "The Church and the Labor Question"
- "Cardinal's Golden Jubilee"
- America in the Making
- Acres of Diamonds
- Prisoners of Hope and Other Sermons
- "What the Bible Contains for the Believer"
- A Theology for the Social Gospel
- The Churches of Christ in Time of War
- Cardinal Gibbons' Letter to the U.S. Archbishops
- "A Program for the Reconstruction of Judaism"
- "Interchurch World Movement Report"
- Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
