George Dana Boardman the Younger (1828April 28, 1903) was an American clergyman.

Early life and education

Boardman was born in

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, the son of the

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George Dana Boardman and Sarah Hall Boardman. He returned to the United States as a boy and attended

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, where he graduated in 1846, and then

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, where he graduated in 1852. He continued his education at the

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and graduated in 1855.

Career

In 1855, Boardman became pastor of the Baptist church in

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, but his views on the slavery question impelled him to exchange his charge in 1856 for a church further north. He was pastor of the Second Baptist Church in

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, until 1864, and

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of the First Baptist Church,

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, from 1864 to 1894. In 1893, Boardman was the closing presenter to speak at the ''World's Parliament of Religions'' in Chicago; delivering the lecture, ''Christ the Unifier of Mankind''. In June 1899, he established the permanent lectureship known as the Boardman Foundation in Christian Ethics at the

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. He was president of the Christian Arbitration and Peace Society and of the

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. His most important production is a

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, ''Titles of Wednesday Evening Lectures''. It embraces 981 of his lectures, delivered between 1865 and 1880, and comprises a complete

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of the

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Brotherhood of the Kingdom

Boardman was a founding member of the

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Gary J. Dorrien, ''The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900'' (Published by Westminster John Knox Press, 2001) page 91 in 1892, a group of the leading thinkers and writers of the

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movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Other pastors and authors who founded the group with Boardman were leading Social Gospelers

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and Leighton Williams. Boardman is probably best remembered for the quotation attributed to him as:

''The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.''

He died in

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and is buried at

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Published works

* ''Titles of Wednesday Evening Lectures'' * ''Studies in the Model Prayer'' D. Appleton & Company * ''Studies in the Creative Week'' (New York, 1878) D. Appleton & Company * ''The Epiphanies of the Risen Lord'' (New York, 1879) D. Appleton & Company * ''Disarmament of Nations'' (1880) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1889) * ''The Kingdom'' (1899) * ''The Church'' (1901) * ''The Golden Rule'' (1901) * ''Our Risen King's Forty Days'' (1902) * ''The Problem of

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'' (new edition, 1913)

References

External links

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