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CHARLES MONROE SHELDON (1857- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 827 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:MONROE See also:SHELDON (1857- )  , See also:American Congregational clergyman, was See also:born in See also:Wellsville, New See also:York, on the 26th of See also:February 1857 . Graduating at See also:Brown University in 1883 and at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1886, he was pastor of a See also:church at See also:Waterbury, See also:Vermont, in 1886-1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church of See also:Topeka, See also:Kansas . He is well known as the author of a number of widely read books of fiction, which at the same See also:time inculcate an uncompromising obedience to the precepts of the See also:Gospel in every-See also:day See also:life . Of these, In His Steps (1896), though not the earliest, is perhaps the best, and it is this one which first brought him into prominence .

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