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Stelze, Charles

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Stelze, Charles (1869–1941)

US Protestant clergyman and reformer. He worked in inner city missions in Minneapolis, New York City, and St Louis. He called for aggressive evangelism in working-class districts. From 1913 until the end of his life he was a free-lance publicist for religious and social causes, including temperance.

He was born in New York City. The son of poor immigrant Germans, he grew up in tenements and took his first sweatshop job at age eight. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. From 1906 to 1913 he headed the Presbyterians' social gospel arm, the Department of Church and Labor.He published a book, Christianity's Storm Center: A Study of the Modern City (1907).



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