Dr. 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 to the great questions of the working classes of to-day. To the solution of these questions he has subsequently devoted most of his time. At present, Dr. Gladden is living in Columbus, Ohio; so that we shall not appreciate his visit to us the less by knowing the distance from which he has come.
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