George Hodges (1856–1919) was an American Episcopal

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, born at

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, and educated at

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(A.B., 1877; A.M., 1882; LL.D., 1912). He served at Calvary Church,

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, from 1881 to 1894. In 1893 he helped establish the Kingsley Association in Pittsburgh, an organization dedicated to helping immigrant workers. Afterward, he became the dean of the

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. "The high esteem in which his religious messages are held by the reading public" resulted in a number of his books being reissued as a second edition in 1914.

Bibliography

* 1892: ''The Episcopal Church : its doctrine, its ministry, its discipline, its worship, and its sacraments.'' New York : Thomas Wittaker. () * 1892: ''Christianity between Sundays.'' New York : T. Whittaker. () * 1894: ''The Heresy of Cain. '' New York : Thomas Whittaker. () * 1895: ''Massachusetts churchmanship : a paper read at a meeting of the Clerical Association in Boston, October twenty-eighth, MDCCCXCV.'' Cambridge : s.n. ()Online version
of Hodges 1895 * 1896: ''Faith and social service; eight lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute.'' New York : T. Whittaker. (1900, 1915) () * 1899: ''The Battles of Peace.'' New York : Thomas Whittaker. (1914) () * 1901: ''William Penn.'' Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin and Co. (1929) ()Digital copy
of Hodges 1901 in Internet Archive * 1904: ''Fountains Abbey : the Story of a Mediæval monastery.'' London : J. Murray. ()

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in Wikisource * 1904: ''When the King came; stories from the four Gospels.'' Boston/New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. () * 1904: ''Organized labor and capital; the William L. Bull lectures for the year 1904'

with

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, and

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* 1904: ''The Human Nature of the Saints.'' New York : T. Whittaker. (1905, 1914) () * 1906: ''Three Hundred Years of the Episcopal Church in America.'' Philadelphia : Published for the Missionary Thank Offering Committee by G.W. Jacobs. () * 1906 (with John Reichert): ''The administration of an institutional church : a detailed account of the operation of St. George's parish in the city of New York.'' New York/London : Harper & Bros. () * 1906: ''The Year of Grace'' (two volumes, 1906; second edition, 1914) * 1909: ''The apprenticeship of Washington, and other sketches of significant colonial personages.'' New York : Moffat, Yard & Co. ()Digital copy
of Hodges 1909 in Internet Archive * 1911: ''The Training of Children in Religion.'' New York : Appleton. (1912, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1923) ()Digital copy
of Hodges 1911 in Hathi Trust * 1911: ''Everyman's Religion.'' New York : The Macmillan Company (1913) () * 1912: ''Saints and heroes since the Middle Ages.'' New York : H. Holt ()Digital copy
of Hodges 1912 in Internet Archive * 1913: ''Classbook of Old Testament History.'' New York : The Macmillan Co. (1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1925, 1932, 1937) ()Digital copy
of Hodges 1913 in Hathi Trust

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* * * American non-fiction writers American Episcopal theologians American Episcopal priests 1856 births 1919 deaths Hamilton College (New York) alumni People from Rome, New York 19th-century American Episcopalians {{US-theologian-stub