GLADDEN, WASHINGTON ( 1836— ). An American clergyman and writer, born in Potts grove, Pa. He prepared for college at the Owego Academy, in Owego, N. Y., and graduated at Williams in 1859. He was pastor of Congrega tional churches in Brooklyn, N. Y., Morrisania, N. Y., North Adams, Mass., and Springfield, Mass., from 1860 until 1882, when he removed to Columbus, Ohio, to become pastor of the First Congregational Church there. As an editor he was connected with the Independent from 1871 to 1875, and with the Sunday Afternoon. (Spring field, Mass.) from 1878 to 1880. He was given the degree of D.D. by Roanoke College, Virginia, and LL.D. by the University of Wisconsin and Notre Dame University, Indiana, a Catholic in stitution. His pulpit and published utterances show vigorous, direct, and practical thought, and the gift of graceful expression, and he put into practice his repeated expression about the duties of citizenship by serving in the City Council of Columbus from 1900 to 1902. His books, which arc sensible and scholarly discussions of social and civil reform, and of the application of Christianity to every-day life, include such titles as: Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living (1868) ; 1Vorkingmen and Their Employers (1876) ; Being a Christian (1876); The Christian Way (1877); The Lord's Prayer (1880) ; The Christian League of Connecticut (1883); Things New and Old (1884); The Young Men and the Churches (1885); Applied Christianity (1887) ; Parish Problems (1888) ; Burning Questions (1889); Who Wrote the Bible? (1891) ; Santa Claus on a Lark (1892); Tools and the Man (1893); The Cosniopolis City Club (1893); The Church and the Kingdom (1894) ; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age (1895) ; Seven Puzzling Bible Books (1897) ; Social Facts and Forces (1897) ; Art and Moral ity (1897); The Christian Pastor (1898); How Much is Left of the Old Doctrines (1899) ; Social Salvation (1902) ; and The Practice of Immor tality (1902). He also wrote the discussion of
the Christian religion, "The Outlook for Chris tianity," in Great Religions of the Work/ (1902).