(Santa Claus on a Lark and Other Christmas Stories
By Wash...)
Santa Claus on a Lark and Other Christmas Stories
By Washington Gladden
The 1890 classic Christmas story for Santa Claus with fantasy stories of;
Santa Claus on a lark
A Christmas dinner with the man in the moon
Tom Noble's Christmas
The strange adventures of a Wood-Sled
An angel in an ulster
Mr. Haliburton Todd's surprise party
Emil's Christmas gift
Santa Claus in the pulpit
**This kindle edition is scanned from the original hardcover book.
Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Socia...)
Excerpt from Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions
One fact thrusts itself in our faces as soon as we ask this question this great increase of wealth is visible mainly, after all, in Christian lands. We said that the world is growing rich, but it is our world the world with which we are brought into closest political and commer cial relations - oi which this is true; it is not true of the teeming populations of Africa, save of those tribes that have received Christianity; of them it is true. It is not true of China, nor of India, nor of Persia, nor of Turkey to any great extent.
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Washington Gladden was a leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement. Gladden opposed racial segregation. He was a prolific writer who wrote hundreds of poems, hymns, articles, editorials, and books.
Background
Washington Gladden was born on February 11, 1836, in a little hamlet in central Pennsylvania called Pottsgrove. He was a descendant of the New England Gladdings, his great-grandfather, Azariah Gladding, a Revolutionary soldier, having been born in Norwich, Connecticut.
His grandfather, Thomas Gladden, was a shoemaker of Southampton, Massachusets, from which place his father, Solomon, a school teacher, wandered to Pennsylvania where he married Amanda Daniels of Owego, New York. Solomon Washington, as he was originally named, was their first-born.
When he was six years old, his father died, and he was brought up on the farm of his uncle, Ebenezer Daniels, near Owego.
Education
In 1855, an opportunity was afforded Gladden to study at the Owego Academy, and the following year, he enrolled as a sophomore at Williams College.
Gladden never earned a theological degree, but he received 35 honorary doctorates.
Career
At sixteen, Gladden entered the office of the Owego Gazette where he worked at the case and wrote local news.
Gladden taught school during winter vacations and was college reporter for the Springfield Republican. After his graduation in 1859, Gladden taught the principal public school in Owego for a few months but was soon licensed to preach by the Susquehanna Association of Congregational Ministers.
His earliest pastorates were at the First Congregational Methodist Church, Brooklyn, where he was ordained November 15, 1860, and at Morrisania, New York.
By frequenting the lecture rooms of Union Seminary and by reading he added to his theological equipment. The writings of Frederick W. Robertson and Horace Bushnell emancipated him from “the bondage of an immoral theology” and gave him a practical gospel to preach.
In 1866, he became pastor of the Congregational church in North Adams, Massachusets, where he remained until 1871.
In 1871, he joined the editorial staff of the Independent, a connection which he severed in 1875 because he felt that the prevailing advertising policy, which it followed, was not entirely honest.
That year, he took charge of the North Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusets, which he served until December 1882, also editing (1878 - 80) Sunday Afternoon, a Magazine for the Household, renamed Good Company. He then accepted a call to the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, where he remained as pastor and pastor-emeritus till his death.
From 1904 to 1907, he was a moderator of the National Council of the Congregational Churches.
Achievements
Washington Gladden has been listed as a notable author, clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.
Gladden acknowledged the right of labor to organize and advocated the identification of capital and labor through some application of the principle of cooperation.
While favoring government ownership of public utilities, he was opposed to socialism as a system, maintaining that the present social order can be Christianized by application of the fundamental Christian principle.
The Church’s chief business, he maintained, is to effect this transformation, not by the use of force, or the endorsement of any particular economic program, but by inspiring individuals with a love of justice and the spirit of service.
He recognized the need of greater cooperation among the churches and his Christian League of Connecticut (1883) helped to create church federations.
He was actively interested in municipal reform, and served on the city council of Columbus from 1900 to 1902, while his little book, The Cosmopolis City Club (1893), stimulated the formation of civic organizations.
Quotations:
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ”
Membership
Gladden was a leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio city council.
Personality
Gladden was a man of wide reading rather than of profound scholarship, of practical rather than a philosophical turn of mind.
Although fearless in acting upon his convictions, he was, in general, conciliatory and mediating rather than polemic; hence he had the respect and confidence of opposing parties. He did much to popularize the results of Biblical criticism and modern theological views.
His fairness, scrupulousness, and fearlessness were demonstrated by his opposition to the anti-Catholic crusade of 1893-94, and by his widely discussed condemnation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for soliciting a gift of $100, 000 from the president of the Standard Oil Company, money which he characterized as “tainted, ” and an act which, as he viewed it, made the Church a partner with plunderers. His practical nature was not without a strain of mysticism and an appreciation of poetry.
Connections
On December 5, 1860, Gladden was married to Jennie O. Cohoon, a former schoolmate in the Owego Academy.
