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...Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention...
Yale university under the Dwight regime proposes to keep abreast of current industrial problems. Dr. Washington Gladden's course of nine lectures on the relation of the ministry and the church to social problems has been successfully inaugurated here this week. Dr. Gladden is a prominent representative of the increasing number of younger clergymen in the Congregational body who are not afraid to grapple with socialism and in the light of the gospel they preach, to unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study...
...Gladden dealt sturdy blows at the religious pessimism current in certain sections of the church to-day which teaches that Christ's work for humanity is practically a failure, and that the world is constantly growing worse. He repudiated the theory that the world is a wreck and that the utmost the church can do is to rescue a few here and there. The kingdoms of the world are yielding to the advance of Christ. In the industrial field he meets the most stubborn opposition, even here some of the most ominous signs tell of the presence...
...Gladden took the middle ground between an extreme theory of individualistic ownership and that of communism. The community still retains its right to the land it occupies and when private ownership injures the general welfare the state should recall its lands...
APPLETON CHAPEL, SUNDAY EVENINGS.Services will be conducted on January 23 by Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., of Columbus...