GLADDEN, WASHINGTON (1836- )
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GLADDEN, WASHINGTON (1836- ) , American Congregational divine, was born in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania , on the 11th of February 1836. He graduated at Williams College in 1859, preached in churches in Brooklyn, Morrisania (New York City), North Adams, Massachusetts, and Springfield , Massachusetts, and in 1882 became pastor of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio . He was an editor of the Independent in 1871-1875, and a frequent contributor to it and other periodicals . He consistently and earnestly urged in pulpit and press the need of personal, civil and, particularly, social righteousness, and in 1900-1902 was a member of the city council of Columbus. Among his many publications, which include sermons, occasional addresses, &c., are: Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living (1868); Workingmen and their Employers (1876); The Christian Way (1877); Things New and Old (1884); Applied Christianity (1887); Tools and the ManProperty and Industry under the Christian Law (1893); The Church and the Kingdom (1894), arguing against a confusion and misuse of these two terms; Seven Puzzling Bible Books (1897); How much is Left of the Old Doctrines (1899); Social Salvation (Igor); Witnesses of the Light (1903); the William Belden Noble Lectures (Harvard), being addresses on Dante, Michelangelo, Fichte, Hugo, Wagner and Ruskin; The New Idolatry (1905); Christianity and Social-ism (1906), and The Church and Modern Life (1908). In 1909 he published his Recollections.
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