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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><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>

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,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/makersofchristia008496mbp|last1=Sweet|first1=William W.|title=Makers Of Christianity From John Cotton To Lyman Abbott|date=1937|publisher=Henry Holt And Company|pages=305}}</ref> 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> Giuseppe Mazzini, Tolstoy, and [[Josiah Strong]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QcDOqMpeYsC&pg=PA49|last1=Evans|first1=Christopher H.|title=The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch|date=2004|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0802847362|pages=49}}</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> Giuseppe Mazzini, Tolstoy, and [[Josiah Strong]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QcDOqMpeYsC&pg=PA49|last1=Evans|first1=Christopher H.|title=The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch|date=2004|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0802847362|pages=49}}</ref>