Originally published in 1905, this book contains five lectures: The Sermon on the Mount as the Basis of Social Reconstruction Labor Wars The Program of Socialism The True Socialism Lights and Shadows of Municipal Reform Washington Gladden was a leading Christian Socialist, advocate of Labor, and long time Congregationalist Minister in Columbus, Ohio

"The Bible is not an infallible Book, in the sense in which it is popularly supposed to be infallible. When we study the history of the several books, (the history of the canon, the history of the distribution and reproduction of the manuscript copies, and the history of the versions, when we discover that the 'various readings' of the differing manuscripts amount to one hundred and fifty thousand, the impossibility of maintaining the verbal inerrancy of the Bible becomes evident. We see how human ignorance and error have been suffered to mingle with this stream of living water throughout all...

"The Bible is not an infallible Book, in the sense in which it is popularly supposed to be infallible. When we study the history of the several books, (the history of the canon, the history of the distribution and reproduction of the manuscript copies, and the history of the versions, when we discover that the 'various readings' of the differing manuscripts amount to one hundred and fifty thousand, the impossibility of maintaining the verbal inerrancy of the Bible becomes evident. We see how human ignorance and error have been suffered to mingle with this stream of living water throughout all...

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"The Church and Modern Life" from Washington Gladden. Leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement (1836-1918).

"Who Wrote the Bible" from Washington Gladden. Leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement (1836-1918).

The aim of this volume is to put into compact and popular form, for the benefit of intelligent readers, the principal facts upon which scholars are now generally agreed concerning the literary history of the Bible. The doctrines taught in the Bible will not be discussed; its claims to a supernatural origin will not be the principal matter of inquiry; the book will concern itself chiefly with those purely natural and human agencies which have been employed in writing, transcribing, editing, preserving, transmitting, translating, and publishing the Bible.