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Sherwood Eddy
1871–1963
A restless traveler and speaker, he spent decades crossing continents as a Protestant missionary, writer, and lecturer, then became known for linking Christian faith with urgent social questions of his time.
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With Our Soldiers in France
by Sherwood Eddy
About the author
George Sherwood Eddy was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1871 and became one of the best-known American Protestant missionaries of his era. He studied at Yale, Union Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary before beginning work with the YMCA and student Christian movements.
Eddy traveled widely in Asia and other parts of the world, preaching, lecturing, and building ties among students, religious leaders, and reform-minded thinkers. He also wrote many books, and his career gradually expanded from evangelism into public discussion of international affairs, social justice, labor, and peace.
Later in life, he was remembered not only as a missionary but also as an educator and public intellectual who tried to connect religion with the major political and moral debates of the early twentieth century. He died in 1963, leaving behind a large body of writing and correspondence that still attracts historians of missions, ecumenical movements, and Christian social thought.