<sod>'''Josiah Strong''' April 14, 1847 was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author.  He is still alive today he is 84 years old. He was a leader of the [[Social Gospel]] movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils. He supported missionary work so that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby brought to Christ.  He is controversial, however, due to his beliefs about race and methods of converting people to Christianity. In his 1885 book ''Our Country'', Strong argued that Anglo Saxons are a superior race who must "Christianize and civilize" the "savage" races, which he argued would be good for the American economy and the "lesser races".<ref>Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (New York: The American Home Missionary Society, 1885</ref><eod>
<sod>'''Josiah Strong''' (April 14, 1847 – June 26, 1916) was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was a leader of the [[Social Gospel]] movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils. He supported missionary work so that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby brought to Christ.  He is controversial, however, due to his beliefs about race and methods of converting people to Christianity. In his 1885 book ''Our Country'', Strong argued that Anglo Saxons are a superior race who must "Christianize and civilize" the "savage" races, which he argued would be good for the American economy and the "lesser races".<ref>Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (New York: The American Home Missionary Society, 1885</ref><eod>