Samuel Zane Batten

Samuel Zane Batten (1859–1925) was a Baptist minister.^[1]

Biography

He served as a Baptist minister in Morristown, New Jersey, where he preached against alcohol consumption and gambling.^[2] He was an adamant proponent of democracy for its Christian appeal.^[3] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association.^[4]

He was a member of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom.^[5]

Bibliography

• The New Citizenship: Christian Character in its Biblical Ideas, Sources, and Relations (1898)
• The Social Task of Christianity: A Summons to the New Crusade (1909)
• The Christian State: The State, Democracy, and Christianity (1909)
• A Working Temperance Program (1910)
• The Industrial Menace to the Home (1914)
• The Moral Meaning of War: A Prophetic Interpretation (1918)
• The New World Order (1919)
• If America Fail: Our National Mission and Our Possible Future (1922)
• Building a Community (1922)
• Why Not Try Christianity? (1923)

References

1. Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 177
2. John W. Rae, Morristown: A Military Headquarters of the American Revolution, Arcadia Publishing, 2003, p. 140
3. Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, University of Missouri Press, 2001, p. 192
4. James H. Moorhead, World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925, Indiana University Press, 1999, p. 116
5. Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 190