Charles monroe sheldon biography

Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 – February 24, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement.
Charles Monroe Sheldon was an American preacher and inspirational writer famous as the author of the best-selling novel In His Steps.
Charles Monroe Sheldon was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement.

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Charles Monroe Sheldon, pastor of the Central Congregational Church of Topeka, Kan., is not only one of the most eminent divines in the West, but is also an author whose contributions to sacred literature have attracted world-wide attention and distinction. He comes of good old English ancestry, with a tinge of Scotch-Irish on the maternal side, and was born at Wellsville, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1857. His father, Rev. Stewart Sheldon, a native of the State of New York, was born Dec. 20, 1823, and was also a Congregational minister of note, having spent over forty years in active ministerial work in the states of New York, Rhode Island, Michigan, Missouri and South Dakota. While a resident of South Dakota, he held the position of superintendent of church missions, in which capacity he organized as many as a hundred new churches. He was the son of Horace Sheldon, a native of Massachusetts and an agriculturist of western New York, and at present (1910) is a resident of Topeka where he has lived practically retired from the ministry since the death of his wife, Mrs. Sarah (Ward) Sheldon, o

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Charles Monroe Sheldon was known by many different titles: pastor, social justice warrior, prohibition campaigner, author and editor. He is famous for his book In His Steps, which is a collection of short stories that turned into the "WWJD" (What Would Jesus Do) movement. Sheldon also did work in Tennessee Town, traveled all over the world for prohibition reformation and advocated for world peace.

Coming to Topeka

Charles Sheldon was born on Feb 26, 1857, in Wellsville, New York. He went to college in Massachusetts and graduated from seminary in 1886. While preaching at his church in Vermont two very important things happen to him: 1) he learned about social gospel work and 2) he met a parishioner who introduced him to his future wife, Mary Abby (they married in 1891).

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This parishioner also encouraged Sheldon to come to Topeka. The members of Central Congregational Church in Topeka hired him as their pastor in 1889. Prior to hiring Sheldon, the church had a small membership and existed in a small store building.

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Charles Sheldon

American religious leader (1857–1946)

For other people named Charles Sheldon, see Charles Sheldon (disambiguation).

Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 – February 24, 1946) was an American Congregationalistminister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement. His 1896 novel In His Steps introduced the principle "What would Jesus do?", which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th century and enjoyed a revival almost one hundred years later. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas, between US-75 and K-4 is named the "Charles Sheldon Trafficway" in his honor.^[1]^[2]

Education and ministry

Charles Sheldon was born in Wellsville, New York. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1879), and of Brown University in 1883. He pastored a church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas.^[3]

Sheldon became an advocate of the late-nineteenth-century school