Josiah Strong
Josiah Strong
Josiah Strongwas an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was a leader of the Social Gospel movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils. He supported missionary work so that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby brought to Christ. He is controversial, however, due to his beliefs about race and methods of converting people to Christianity. In his 1885 book Our Country, Strong argued that Anglo Saxons are a superior race who must "Christianize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
Josiah Strong quotes about
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
For the same reason the saloon, together with the intemperance and the liquor power which it represents, is multiplied in the city.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxons for an hour sure to come in the world's future... the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled... .Whether the extinction of inferior races... seems to the reader sad or otherwise, it certainly appears probable.