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I am a clergyman of the American Protestant Church, organizer of the Social Gospel Movement in America, editor of the magazine //The Gospel of The Kingdom,// and author of //Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis.// My belief in sin and redemption along with my hatred of social sin made me a fervent activist against all things sinful. I hold high the belief that the Anglo-Saxon race is the key to the future of society. This sense of ethnocentrism pushes me to promote my brand of christianity for all cultures. My beliefs can solve the nation's problems socially, economically, and morally.
 * Josiah Strong (1847-1916)**

In the 1890s I emerge as one of the country's strongest voices in support of American imperialism. This philosophy holds that the nation needs to expand its sphere of influence around the world to ensure its continued dominance, and to save damned cultures (such as the Phillipines). The support of my religious background gives the nation's leaders an altruistic and moral purpose for the further expansion of America and American imperialism.

I support the annexation of the Phillipines because it is our duty as priviledged Anglo-Saxons to take responsibiltiy for the heathen of society and teach them our civilized ways. This includes exposing them to the previoulsy unseen light of Jesus Christ. We must expand to as much of the world as God permits, paving the path of Christianity along our way. Our race is the key to the future, as "This race is destined to dispossess many weaker ones, assimilated others, and mold of the remainder until... it has Anglo-Sazonized mankind." I hold particular interest in the annexation of the Phillipines as the government acceptance of my beliefs has heightened support of my cause. I believe the capture and conversion of the Phillipino people could be the first of many great steps leading to a civilized, socially sinless world.

__References:__ Richard T. Ely Walter Rauschenbusch

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