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Three goals the Social Gospel Movement had were protecting Social Welfare, promoting Moral Improvement, and creating Economic reform. An example of protecting Social Welfare was providing services to the poor to make conditions better for them. An example of protecting Moral Improvement was the ban of alcoholic beverages. An example of Economic reform was improving working conditions for the poor, especially the abolition of child labor.
I believe the Social Gospel Movement was successful in achieving its goals. The movement helped the poor in several ways before it started to decline before the first World War. The movement created the YMCA and Salvation Army which have greatly aided the poor. We still have the Salvation Army today to donate to the poor. The movement also influenced Martin Luther King Junior and the American Civil Rights movement. Due to this movement, child labor has been banned and there is less poverty. Although some of the problems the movement hoped to solve such as crime and alcoholism still occur in today's society, the movement managed to solve most issues. In the end, the Social Gospel Movement has improved our society.
The movement was an effort by Protestant Christians to improve conditions for the poor. The Christians helped the poor by establishing settlement houses. Washington Gladden was considered to be the father of the Social Gospel. He supported unionization of the workforce and opposed racial discrimination. Walter Rauschenbusch was another important individual leading the charge in the movement. He persuaded middle and upper-class citizens that social issues could be solved by Christianity. Jane Adams was one of the most influencial people during the movement. She founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889. The Hull House was a settlement house open to new immigrants.
Ban of alcoholic beverages
Settlement house
Abolition of Child Labor
Due to the increase in industrialization and immigration, there was more poverty, crime, discrimination, and sanitation issues. The Social Gospel Movement provided educational and social services to the poor to help make conditions more livable for them. These services included improving society by building community churches and centers.
Economic Reform
The Social Gospel Movement appeared from 1898 to 1917. It was a religious movement beginning in response to the social problems caused by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and growing immigration of the Gilded Age. It taught that religion and human dignity would help the poor overcome problems of industrialization. There were several problems such as extravagant wealth, poverty, alcoholism, racial tensions, terrible sanitation, crime, child labor, awful schools, deficient labor unions, and the danger of war during the time. The movement was created to improve the economic, social and moral conditions of the urban working class.
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Alcohilsm was a big issue during the early twentieth century. The Social Gospel Movement hoped banning alcohol would promote moral improvement. The WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) sang and prayed around the city to urge people to stop selling alcohol.