of her husband's very public career." The Gladdens had two daughters (one of whom died at 24) and two sons. Alcohol and personal problems beset the sons and they both died young. The difficulties with the Gladdens' sons occurred within a larger similar context. Post-Civil War America was marked by "inward trouble in middle-class family life." Youth felt "great uncertainty" about their identity and their life's work. This made it difficult for them to "settle on careers." Large numbers suffered "nervous collapses." Historians assessing Gladden's career emphasize the importance of his role in the Social Gospel movement. He became the social gospel's "most revered and respected spokesman" Gladden not only promoted a "Social Gospel of practical action" by his writing and speaking, he engaged in practical action by working for solutions. He supported workers' right to unionize, and he opposed racial segregation. These assessments by historians correlate with the goal Gladden held up for his ministry. In his 1909 autobiography Recollections, he wrote that, as a minister, he wanted to practice "a religion that laid hold upon life, and proposed first and foremost, to realize the Kingdom of God in this world." Honors Gladden never earned a theological degree, but he received 35 honorary doctorates. Bibliography Gladden wrote hundreds of poems, hymns, articles, editorials, and books. Gladden's hymn O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee has been published in 470 hymnals. His books follow: Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living, 1868 From the Hub to the Hudson, 1869 Being a Christian and How to Begin, 1876 Working People and their Employers, 1876 The Christian Way: Whither it Leads and how to Go On, 1877 The Lord's Prayer: Seven Homilies, 1880 The Christian League of Connecticut, 1883 Things New and Old: Discourses in Christian Truth and Life, 1884 The Young Men and the Churches: Why Some of Them are Outside and Why They should Come In, 1885 Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions, 1887 Parish Problems: Hints and Helps for the People of the Churches, 1887 Burning Questions of the Life That Now Is and of That Which Is to Come, 1891 Who Wrote the Bible?: A Book for the People, 1891 The Cosmopolis City Club, 1893 Santa Claus on a Lark: and Other Christmas Stories, 1894 Tools and the Man: Property and Industry Under the Christian Law, 1894 The Church and The Kingdom, 1894 Ruling Ideas of the