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{{quotation|I owe my own first awakening to the world of social problems to the agitation of Henry George in 1886, and wish here to record my lifelong debt to this single-minded apostle of a great truth.<br /><br />''Christianizing the Social Order'', page 394.<ref>''Christianizing the Social Order'', page 394.</ref>}}

{{quotation|I owe my own first awakening to the world of social problems to the agitation of Henry George in 1886, and wish here to record my lifelong debt to this single-minded apostle of a great truth.<br /><br />''Christianizing the Social Order'', page 394.<ref>''Christianizing the Social Order'', page 394.</ref>}}

George's imprint on Rauschenbusch stimulated him to start writing.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  In 1887, he published his "first paper on the social question" titled "Henry George".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_88AAAAIAAJ|last1=Bodein|first1=Vernon P|title=The social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch and its relation to religious education|date=1944|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=4}}</ref>

George's imprint on Rauschenbusch stimulated him to start writing.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  In 1887, he published his "first paper on the social question" titled "Henry George".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_88AAAAIAAJ|last1=Bodein|first1=Vernon P.|title=The social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch and its relation to religious education|date=1944|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=4}}</ref><ref name=golden>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148|last1=Frederick|first1=Peter J.|title=Knights of the Golden Rule: The Intellectual as Christian Social Reformer in the 1890s|date=2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813162898|pages=148}}</ref>

 

He was also influenced by [[Edward Bellamy]] and his book [[Looking Backward]].<ref name=golden /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptpC5U85S8IC&pg=PA160|last1=Jenkins|first1=Thomas E.|title=The Character of God : Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism|date=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195354690|pages=160}}</ref>  Other influences include Marx, Engels, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQKsAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83|last1=Littlefield|first1=Christina L.|title=Chosen Nations: Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and Its Influence on Democratic Values in Late Nineteenth-century Britain and the United States|date=2013|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=978-1451465570|pages=83|quote=Rauschenbusch, Reading list (American Baptist Historical Society, Rauschenbusch Family Archives, Box 90)}}</ref>

===Brotherhood of the Kingdom===

===Brotherhood of the Kingdom===

in 1892, Rauschenbusch founded the Brotherhood of the Kingdom<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=S97aXwAACAAJ Spirit and Aims of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom]</ref> with his friends Leighton Williams and Nathaniel Schmidt.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|last1=Frederick|first1=Peter J.|title=Knights of the Golden Rule: The Intellectual as Christian Social Reformer in the 1890s|date=2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813162898|pages=151}}</ref>

in 1892, Rauschenbusch founded the Brotherhood of the Kingdom<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=S97aXwAACAAJ Spirit and Aims of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom]</ref> with his friends Leighton Williams and Nathaniel Schmidt.<ref>[Knights of the Golden Rule, page 151]</ref>

This organization was mainly of the Baptist denomination, of the earnest work of two men in New York City, but it grew to become nondenominational. Its aim was to work for the kingdom of God in the most inclusive sense. The eight principles and methods of the brotherhood were as follows:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJMDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133|author=[[William Dwight Porter Bliss]]|title=The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including All Social Reform Movements and Activities, and the Economic, Industrial, and Sociological Facts and Statistics of All Countries and All Social Objects|date=1908|pages=133}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5rZw3B4pw0C&pg=PA73|title=The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America|date=1976|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-0877220848|pages=73}}</ref>

This organization was mainly of the Baptist denomination, of the earnest work of two men in New York City, but it grew to become nondenominational. Its aim was to work for the kingdom of God in the most inclusive sense. The eight principles and methods of the brotherhood were as follows:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJMDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133|author=[[William Dwight Porter Bliss]]|title=The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including All Social Reform Movements and Activities, and the Economic, Industrial, and Sociological Facts and Statistics of All Countries and All Social Objects|date=1908|pages=133}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5rZw3B4pw0C&pg=PA73|title=The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America|date=1976|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-0877220848|pages=73}}</ref>