Urban and Industrial Mission Resources

The focus of this guide is the organized urban and industrial mission work, both domestic and international, overseen by the boards and offices of:

• the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (PCUSA), later the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA);
• the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (FCC);
• and the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC).

The United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA) and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) also engaged in ministry to urban and industrial communities, but those denominations did not maintain discrete administrative units to oversee the work. As a consequence, the documentation of UPCNA and PCUS urban and industrial work is interfiled with national agency records and in the personal papers of individual ministers and missionaries.

The holdings at PHS document many city churches and presbyteries, city missions, neighborhood houses, and industrial schools. These topics are not covered extensively in this guide, but researchers interested in particular institutions and programs are encouraged to search our catalogs and databases, and are welcome to confer with reference staff for further assistance.

Documentation of urban and industrial mission work conducted overseas by Presbyterian missionaries may be found in missionaries' personal papers as well as in the records of missions and mission boards held at PHS. Researchers should consult our Guides to Archival Collections.

Other repositories that hold urban and industrial mission records include the Yale Divinity School Special Collections, the Union Theological Seminary Archives at Columbia University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Special Collections. Collections closely related to materials held at PHS are noted in this guide.

PHS is actively collecting personal papers and organizational records that document urban and industrial mission work in the Presbyterian Church and among ecumenical groups. This guide will be updated with new collections as they are acquired or processed.

PHS holds extensive records of the Board of Home Missions (BHM), the Board of National Missions (BNM), the Board of Christian Education (BCE), and ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches that engaged in urban and industrial mission work. A selection of these records is presented here. Researchers who wish to inquire about topics or individuals not mentioned in this guide are welcome to contact the PHS reference staff

*Access note: It is the policy of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to restrict access to all official records at the national level on deposit at the Presbyterian Historical Society that are less than 20 years old. The restriction period for denominational records at the congregation, presbytery, and synod level is 50 years. If you wish to access official records that fall under these restrictions, you must secure written permission from the records' owners. Please consult with the reference staff for further details.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A./United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions.
Woman's Board of Home Missions Records, 1866-1958
25.00 cubic feet
Call number: RG 305
Microfilm call number: MFPOS 1347 r.1-82
Processed, open for research

Abstract
Established in 1877 and incorporated in 1915, the Woman's Board of Home Missions provided schools and teachers for mission fields in the West and Southwest United States, Alaska, the Appalachians, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The Woman's Board published pamphlets, leaflets, and the magazine Home Mission Monthly. In 1923, the Woman's Board merged with seven other boards and agencies of the church to form the Board of National Missions.

The collection includes correspondence related to the city, immigrant, and industrial work supported by the Women's Executive Committee/Woman's Board of Home Missions, 1901-1924.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Department of Mission Development Records, 1871-1974
46.67 cubic feet
Series II: Department of City, Immigrant and Industrial Work, 1888-1960, bulk 1920-1950 (Boxes 10-15)
Call number: RG 301.7; 12 0307
Microfilm call number (Series II, Subseries 5): MFPOS 1232, r. 1-3
Processed, open for research (RG 301.7)*
Unprocessed, open for research (12 0307)

Abstract
The Board of National Missions was formed in 1923 with six divisions, one of which (Church Extension and Missions) was given responsibility for several departments of the old Board of Home Missions.  In 1935, Church Extension and Missions was renamed the Department of Missionary Operation; in 1951, it became the Division of Missionary Operation; in 1961, it became the Division of Church Strategy and Development; and in 1971, it became the Department of Mission Development.  In 1972, the Board of National Missions merged into the Program Agency.

Series II of RG 301.7 contains assorted records from the Department of City, Immigrant and Industrial Work, 1888-1960.  The bulk of the records date from 1920 to 1950. The series is divided into four subseries: 1) William P. Shriver, Superintendent; Files, 1888-1943; 2) Jacob A. Long, Superintendent; Files, 1910-1957; 3) Field Surveys and Reports, 1936-1960; 4) [vacant]; and 5) Department of Jewish Evangelization, 1920-1948. Subseries 5) is available on microfilm. Accession 12 0307 consists of subject files, clippings, scrapbooks, and pamphlets, dating from 1910 to 1957. Subjects include: Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.); Neighborhood houses; the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations; William P. Shriver; Demographics and mission in cities, 1910-1911; and foreign language groups.

See also

• Board of National Missions records
  Additional reports, subject files, and publications created by the Unit of City, Immigrant, and Industrial Work and the Department of City, Immigrant, and Industrial Work can be found in several unprocessed Board of National Missions Records.
  Call number: 93 1109b; 96 1231; 97 0606e; 97 0829a; 98 0122c; consult with reference staff for access

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Board of Home Missions Records, 1872-1972
5.80 cubic feet
Call number: 02 0626
Unprocessed, open for research*

Abstract
The Board of Home Missions was established in 1870 to minister to various segments of the population including immigrants and the urban poor, the Jews, the Spanish-speaking populations of the American Southwest and of the Caribbean islands, African-Americans in the deep South, Native Americans, and rural populations. In 1923, the boards of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. were reorganized, with several of the departments of the Board of Home Missions continuing their work under the new Board of National Missions, Division of Church Extension and Missions.

The collection consists of 35 volumes of minutes (1889-1972), dockets, reports, correspondence, pamphlets, charters, and bylaws.

Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.) Records, 1908-1966
4.75 cubic feet
Call number: RG 14; 94 0328c; 02 0719k
Processed, open for research (RG 14)
Unprocessed, open for research (94 0328; 02 0719k)

Abstract
The Labor Temple was established in 1910 as a mission to workingmen of New York City by the Home Missions Committee of the Presbytery of New York, after a plan of Rev. Charles Stelzle. In 1915, it was formally organized as the American International Church (Presbyterian) but continued to be known as the Labor Temple. Will Durant directed the Labor Temple School until the 1930s. Its management was taken over by the Board of National Missions' Unit of City and Industrial Work in 1943 and continued as a community center and meeting place for striking workers' unions.

Related materials

• Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
  Edmund B. Chaffee papers, 1902-1947
  47 linear feet

Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations Records, 1910-1999
0.46 cubic feet
Call number: 99 1117; 00 0322a
Unprocessed, open for research*

Abstract
In 1944, the Board of National Missions established the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations (PIIR), a program to reach out to blue-collar workers through new techniques of evangelism. Marshal Logan Scott served as the dean of PIIR from 1945 to the late 1960s. In 1950, PIIR established the Ministers in Industry Program, which placed seminarians in industrial jobs and provided them with experience in congregations in industrial communities. In 1952, PIIR was moved from New York to the campus of the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Scott was succeeded as dean by Jim Armstrong. In 1972, Richard P. Poethig became dean of PIIR, serving concurrently as head of the Institute on the Church in an Urban-Industrial Society (ICUIS). PIIR was integrated into ICUIS in 1975.

The collection includes a scrapbook history of PIIR, compiled by Richard P. Poethig; photocopies of documents dating from approximately 1910; published writings of Marshal Logan Scott; a transcript of a 1982 interview of Marshal Logan Scott; correspondence and reminiscences from PIIR alumni; a photocopy of a 1959 report, “The PIIR and Industrial Mission,” by Edgar A. Towne; materials related to the Burlington Ecumenical Action ministry, 1968-1988; and materials related to the 1999 PIIR reunion.

See also

• Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers, 1812-2021
  See Personal Papers section of this guide
   
• PIIR Publications
  Includes announcements, 1945-1947, and bulletins, 1946-1950
  Call number: PAM BV 2695 .W6 P73; PAM FOL BV 2695 .W6 P73d
   
• Ministers in Industry Program Photographs, c. 1959
  Call number: Printfile 171
  Digitized content

Office of the General Secretary Records, 1920s-1972
42.00 cubic feet
Call number: RG 300.1
Processed, open for research*

Abstract
Papers of Board of National Missions Secretaries Herman Morse and Kenneth Neigh. Subjects include: Labor Temple, Sub-Committee on Social and Industrial Relations, Church and Society, Department of the Urban Church, Industrial Areas Foundation, Joint Strategy and Action Committee, Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations, Special Committee on the Inner City, Urban and Industrial Ministries (Joint), Urban Church,

See also

• General Department for Program and General Services, Associate General Secretary Records, 1949-1962
  Includes files on the Labor Temple, PIIR, and the Inner-city Committee.
  Call number: RG 301.1; open for research

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education.
Office of Church and Society Records, 1945-1966
15.00 cubic feet
Call number: RG 52
Processed, open for research

Abstract
The Board of Christian Education created an Office of Church and Society as part of its general reorganization in 1959-1960. The function of the Office was to help the Church to understand the society in which its members lived, so that it might effectively minister to individuals and so that it would have a place in that society rather than existing apart from it. It was involved with such issues as the social implications of the gospel, the church and economic life, international affairs, race relations, and alcoholism. The Office fulfilled its responsibilities through a variety of projects, studies, surveys, and investigations, working on its own as well as with various secular agencies.

The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, studies and articles documenting the work of the Office of Church and Society.

Council on Church and Society Records, 1948-1968
12.00 cubic feet
Call number: RG 78
Processed, open for research*

Abstract
The functions of the Council on Church and Society were: to be advisory to the boards, agencies and judicatories of the Church in implementing the actions of the General Assembly in the area of Church and Society; to prepare background materials for the General Assembly's Standing Committee on Church and Society; to assist the Standing Committee on Church and Society in the preparation of policy declarations to be submitted to the General Assembly; to report to the General Assembly annually on the emerging issues in Church and Society, and to review the state of the social involvement of the United Presbyterian Church; and to commission and release studies on related aspects of issues addressed by previous General Assembly policy declarations.

This collection includes papers, studies, articles and correspondence from the Council on Church and Society. It also includes PIIR newsletters, 1954-1965 (incomplete).

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Support Agency Photographs, c. 1870-c. 1982
13.50 cubic feet
Call number: RG 303
Processed, open for research*

Abstract
This record group consists of photographs from the Board of National Missions and its predecessor agencies. The bulk of the collection was created from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s; many photographs are undated. Photographic subjects include: missions and missionaries; missionary homes and neighborhood houses; church buildings; schools and hospitals; city missions; and missions to migrants.

Federal Council of Churches

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records, 1894-1952
86.00 cubic feet
Call number: NCC RG 18
Processed, open for research

Abstract
In 1908, 32 Christian communions met in Philadelphia and formed the Federal Council of Churches. The FCC aimed, among other things, to encourage devotional fellowship and to "bring the Christian bodies of America into united service for Christ and the world." At its inaugural meeting, the FCC issued “The Social Creed of the Churches,” a statement of commonly agreed goals for social reform. Continuing to work together toward the goal of church unity, churches that formed the FCC joined with other ecumenical bodies to form the National Council of Churches in 1950.

This collection includes records of the Department of Christian Social Relations, 1908-1950 (Series III, B), and the Department of Church and Economic Life, 1932-1952 (Series III, E).

See also

• Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Department of Research and Education Records, 1922-1928
  Bound volume of numbers 1-7 of the Research Bulletin, published by the FCC's Dept. of Research and Education; topics include wage and labor issues.
  Call number: 00 0706b; open for research

National Council of Churches

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Division of Christian Life and Mission Records, 1945-1973
67 cubic feet
Call number: NCC RG 6
Processed, open for research

Abstract
The NCC was founded in 1950 as a cooperative agency of Christian churches in the United States, when the Federal Council of Churches merged with several other existing ecumenical organizations. Its member communions include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African-American, Evangelical, and historic Peace churches. One of the four main divisions of the NCC established at its organization, the Division of Christian Life and Mission took on the work of seven departments of the former Federal Council of Churches, including the Department of Church and Economic Life.

This collection includes subject files, reports, correspondence, study papers, publications and some financial records of the Department of Church and Economic Life, 1948-1970 (Series IV).
 

Division of Home Missions Records, 1950-1964
18.00 cubic feet; 5.25 cubic feet
Department of Urban Church (Boxes 16-17)
Call number: NCC RG 7; 00 0707a; 14 0639
Processed, open for research (NCC RG 7)
Unprocessed, open for research (00 0707a)
Unprocessed, consult reference staff for access (14 0639)

Abstract
The NCC's Division of Home Missions, established in 1950, was the successor to the activities of the Home Missions Council of North America. The primary concerns of the Division were "problems of city churches, town and country churches; ministry to special population groups and areas; church extension and new church development; and consideration of strategy and method for an adequate ministry to the entire population."

NCC RG 7 includes minutes of the Department of the Urban Church, 1951-1965; reports, speeches, and publications, including "The City Church," 1950-1964, published by the Joint Commission on the Urban Church and, later, by the NCC. Additional copies of "The City Church" can be found in Accession 00 0707a. Accession 14 0639 includes correspondence, minutes, essays, and newsletters of the Department of the Urban Church, 1951-1959.

Some of the collections listed in this guide include published studies, reports, articles, and newsletters. In addition to these, PHS holds a wide range of published works on topics related to urban and industrial mission and the individuals who carried it out, and more broadly, religious responses to changing economic and social structures. This bibliography presents a small sampling of these holdings. Researchers are encouraged to consult CALVIN and the card catalog in our reading room for additional resources.

PCUSA/UPCUSA Publications

Board of Home Missions

Getting at the Heart of the Downtown Problem : A Concrete Illustration of what the Church is Doing in one of the Most Difficult Fields in the World. New York: Department of Church and Labor, Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., [1910].
Call number: PAM BV 637 .G47 1910

Board of National Missions

[Board of National Missions]. City and Industry (Areas of Service series). New York: Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1946.
Call number: PAM BV 628 .P7 5 1946

[Board of National Missions. City, Immigrant, and Industrial Department]. Proceedings of the Conference of Neighborhood House Work: Held at Harkness Camp, Willoughby, Ohio, June 10-12, 1925. New York: City, Immigrant, and Industrial Department, Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A., 1925.
Call number: PAM BV 2570 .A5 N4 1925

Long, Jacob A. A Challenge to City Missions: An Address Delivered before Presbytery of Detroit, November 2, 1942. New York: Unit of City and Industrial Work, Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1942)
(Not held by PHS)

Long, Jacob A. The Church in City and Industry: A Syllabus. New York: Unit of City and Industrial Work, Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1945.
Call number: BV 637 .L65 1945

Scott, Marshal Logan. The Church Goes to Town. New York: Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1951.
Call number: PAM BV 2653 .S36 1951

Shriver, William P. Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy. New York: Presbyterian Department of Missionary Education, 1913.
Call number: JV 6455 .S6 1913

Shriver, William P. Some Background on National Missions City Work, dictated by William P. Shriver to Ida Pfeufer. 5 manuscript pages, 1955.
Call number: MS Sh868ws

Shriver, William P. The Presbyterian Church in the City. New York: Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, 1938.
Call number: BV 637 .S47 1938

Wilson, Christine T. Thirty Neighborhood Houses: A Survey of Thirty Presbyterian Neighborhood Houses. New York:  Department of City, Immigrant and Industrial Work, Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., [1925].
Call number: BV 2653 .P73 W54 1925

Board of Christian Education

[Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action]. Conversations about Industrial Relations (Round Table Discussions for Use in Church or Community series). Philadelphia: Department of Social Education and Action, Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1945.
Call number: PAM HD 6338 .P7 C66 1945

[Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action]. Report of the Department of Social Education and Action of the Board of Christian Education on the Church and Industrial Relations: As Approved by the 156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., May 30, 1944. Philadelphia: Department of Social Education and Action, Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1944, 1947, 1950, 1954.
Call number: PAM BX 8951.47 A1; PAM HD 6338 .P7 C5 1950

Periodicals

Assembly Herald, 1897-1918. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Continued by: New Era
Call number: MI AS7; Microfilm: MFPOS 1015 r. 1-6

New Era, 1919-1921. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Continued by: Presbyterian Magazine
Call number: BX 8901 .N49

Presbyterian Magazine, 1921-1933. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Call number: F MI P919; Microfilm: MFPOS 1017 r. 1-5

Social Progress, 1934-1969. Crawfordsville, Ind: Department of Social Education of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education.
Continued by: Church and Society
Call number: BV 625 .S62; Microfilm: MFPOS 866, r. 2-12

Church and Society, 1969-2006. Lancaster, Pa.: Boards of Christian Education of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
Call number: AP 2 .C58; Microfilm: MFPOS 866 r. 12-19

Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations Newsletter (Marshal L. Scott Newsletters), 1952-1965. Chicago: Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations (PIIR)
Call number: Archives RG 545, Box 26, Folder 18 (Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers)

Periodicals of FCC/NCC and Other Organizations

Federal Council Bulletin, 1918-1950 (incomplete). New York: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
Continued by: National Council Outlook
Call number: WH30 F31

National Council Outlook, 1951-1959. New York: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Call number: WH30 F31

Hall, Cameron P. Economic Life: A Christian Responsibility: A Study Guide on the Report of the National Study Conference on the Church and Economic Life. New York: Department of Church and Economic Life, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1947.
(Not held by PHS)

Sanderson, Ross W., Department of the Urban Church [National Council of Churches]. The Church Serves the Changing City. New York: Harper, 1955.
Call number: BV 4400 .S35 1955

Ecumenical Perspectives in Urban and Industrial Mission, 1965-1972. London: Division of World Mission and Evangelism, World Council of Churches.
Call number: Archives RG 545, Box 29, Folder 8 (Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers)

Labor Letter, 1947-1953. Chicago, Ill.: Industrial Relations Committee, Council for Social Action, Congregational Christian Churches
Call number: Archives RG 545, Box 21, Folders 3-4 (Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers)

Religion and Labor, 1957-1964. Columbus, OH: Religion and Labor Foundation.
Call number: Archives RG 545, Box 27, Folder 1 (Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers)

East Asia Christian Conference, World Council of Churches, International Missionary Council. First Asian Conference on Industrial Evangelism, Manila, Philippines, June 2-13, 1958. Manila: United Church of Christ in the Philippines, 1958.
Call number: BV 3755 .A842 1958

Church Labor Letter, 1954-1979. Kyoto: Doshisha University School of Theology and Osaka: Christian Center.
Call number: MS50 c474l; Folio MS70 c474c; Archives RG 545, Box 30, Folders 8-12 (Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers)

Committee on Industrial Life and Vocations. Commentary on Industrial Evangelism [Newsletter], 1958, 1961. Manila : United Church of Christ in the Philippines.
Call number: Folio NT6.83 C736i

Biographies and Interviews

Byars, Ronald P. [Interview of Henry D. Jones, recorded at Porter Hills Presbyterian Village, Grand Rapids, Mich., 10-4-78].
Call number:  CASSETTE 417

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, and Ken Fones-Wolf. “Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947.” Church History, vol. 68, no. 1, 1999, pp. 62–86.
www.jstor.org/stable/3170110

Handy, Robert T. "Charles L. Thompson—Presbyterian Architect of Cooperative Protestantism." Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society (1943-1961), vol. 33, no. 4, 1955, pp. 207–228.
www.jstor.org/stable/23325161

Nelson, Daniel W., and Marshal L. Scott. "A Hoosier in Megalopolis: A Conversation with Marshal L. Scott." American Presbyterians, vol. 71, no. 1, 1993, pp. 1–15.
www.jstor.org/stable/23332817

Poethig, Richard P. "Marshal Logan Scott and the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations." The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-), vol. 83, no. 1, 2005, pp. 5–22.
www.jstor.org/stable/23337684

Poethig, Richard P. "William P. Shriver and the Immigrant Fellows: A Presbyterian Response to Early Twentieth-Century Immigration." The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-), vol. 80, no. 3, 2002, pp. 135–152.
www.jstor.org/stable/23336690

Poethig, Richard P., and Cameron Hall. "Cameron Hall, Economic Life, and the Ministry of the Laity." American Presbyterians, vol. 72, no. 1, 1994, pp. 33–47.
www.jstor.org/stable/23332749

Poethig, Richard P. "Charles Stelzle and the Roots of Presbyterian Industrial Mission." The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-), vol. 77, no. 1, 1999, pp. 29–43.
www.jstor.org/stable/23335254

Poethig, Richard P., and Henry D. Jones. "Henry D. Jones, Industrial Missioner: An Oral History Interview." The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-), vol. 78, no. 3, 2000, pp. 221–241.
www.jstor.org/stable/23335481

Stelzle, Charles. A Son of the Bowery: The Life Story of an East Side American. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1926.
Call number:  HM 22 .U6 S7 1926

General Works

Chaffee, Edmund B. The Protestant Churches and the Industrial Crisis. New York: Macmillan Co., 1933.
Call number: HN 39 .U6 C5 1933

Coyle, Robert F. Workingmen and the Church: Sunday Evening Sermons for the People. Boston: Arena Pub. Co., 1896.
Call number:  BX 9178 .C69 W67 1896

Hessel, Dieter T. Reconciliation and Conflict: Church Controversy over Social Involvement. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, [1969].
Call number WESTPR 4059

Hessel, Dieter T. “The Social Gospel in the Presbyterian Church.” 25 [5] page photocopied typescript.
Call number: F SH56P H464s

Hopkins, Charles H. The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940.
Call number:  HN 39 .U6 H6 1940a

Irvin, Dale T. "Social Witness Policies—an Historical Overview." Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), vol. 57, no. 3, 1979, pp. 353–403.
www.jstor.org/stable/23328199

Jones, Henry D. Christian Responsibility in Latin America's Emerging Industrial Society. New York: The Committee [on Cooperation in Latin America], 1959.
Call number: MN57 J717c

Jones, Henry D. Our Christian Witness in Industrial Society. 183 p. typed manuscript, 1960.
Call number: Folio NT6.8 J717o

May, Henry F. Protestant Churches and Industrial America. New York: Harper, 1949.
Call number: HN 39 .U6 M38 1949

The Metropolitan Church: Its Program and Ministry. Chicago: McCormick Theological Seminary, 1966.
This is a special issue of McCormick Quarterly 19, no. 3 (1966), with articles by Marshal Logan Scott, William R. Grace, Richard E. Moore, Arthur R. Hall, F.K. Mullendore, Clarence L. Cave, George H. Hehm, and George E. Todd.
Call number: POETHIG BV 2653 .M13 1966

McDowell, John. The Fellowship of Toil: Messages on Industrial Relationships. New York: Revell, 1930.
Call number: HN 31 .M18 1930

Poethig, Richard P. "Toward Worldwide Industrial Mission: The Presbyterian Story, 1945–1975." American Presbyterians, vol. 73, no. 1, 1995, pp. 35–47.
www.jstor.org/stable/23333278

Poethig, Richard P. "Urban/Metropolitan Mission Policies—an Historical Overview." Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), vol. 57, no. 3, 1979, pp. 313–352.
www.jstor.org/stable/23328198

Rauschenbusch, Walter. A Theology for the Social Gospel. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. Originally published: New York: Abingdon Press, 1917.
Call number: WESTPR 1997-4

Rauschenbusch, Walter. Christianity and the Social Crisis. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991. Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1907.
Call number: WESTPR 5255

Scott, Marshal L. The Christian and Social Action. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1948.
Call number: WESTPR 2563

Smith, Gary Scott. "Conservative Presbyterians: The Gospel, Social Reform, and the Church in the Progressive Era." American Presbyterians, vol. 70, no. 2, 1992, pp. 93–110.
www.jstor.org/stable/23332625

Stelzle, Charles. Christianity's Storm Centre: A Study of the Modern City. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1907.
Call number: BV 637 .S8 1907

Stelzle, Charles. The Gospel of Labor. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co, 1912.
Call number: HD 6338 .S84 1912

Stelzle, Charles. The Church and Labor. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910.
Call number: HD 6338 .S82 1910

Stelzle, Charles. Messages to Workingmen. New York: Revell, 1906.
(Not held by PHS)

White, Ronald C., and Charles Howard Hopkins. The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976.
(Not held by PHS)