His Brother’s Keeper by Charles M. Sheldon

Paperback: 245 pages

1. Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers; 1st edition (September 20, 1999)
2. Language: English
3. ISBN-10: 0785269487
4. ISBN-13: 978-0785269489

My Brother’s Keeper by Charles M. Sheldon and the type of book ranges from, Inspirational Christianity, faith, forgiveness, charity, love, tragedy, and fate.

Charles M. Sheldon was a minister at the Central Congregational Churchin Topeka Kansas, from 1889 until he passed on in 1946. This book was written in 1895, one year before he wrote In His Steps; popular for the developed statement in 2011 of “What Would Jesus Do?”

When thirty year old Stuart Duncan , the son of Ross Duncan a wealthy mine owner, returns from his college education and was just now returning home from a year of traveling in Europe. As Stuart stepped off the train of his hometown of Champion Stuart sees the biggest crowd of people he ever had seen gathered in town. The crowd of 5,000 mine workers went on strike because they wanted the wealthy mine owners to raise their wages. The strike leader was Eric Vassall, Stuart’s boyhood playmate and life-long friend. Eric saved Stuarts life when an elevator broke in the mineshaft earlier in Stuart’s life. Eric’s life style was of a hard working labor man while Eric’s life style was of a son of a wealthy family. Stuart’s father dies from a stroke or brain hemorrhage and he inherits the entire wealth of his father leaving him to make all of the decisions of the mine business and the strike dispute. The story unfolds and tells how Stuart solves the labor dispute while enduring some of hardest decisions concerning wealth, family, friends, and those of his community.

Other Books:

Sheldon’s most famous book, by far, was In His Steps (1897).

Among the more popular of his approximately 50 other books were:

The Crucifixion of Philip Strong (1898),

Robert Hardy’s Seven Days (1893),

The Reformer(1901),

and His Brother’s Keeper (1896).

He also published hundreds of magazine articles, most frequently in The Christian Herald.

He published an autobiography, His Life Story (1925).

No major biography of Sheldon has been published, although one is in progress.

A pamphlet of some value is Glenn Clark, The Man Who Walked In His Steps (1946).

Several master’s theses have been written on Sheldon; probably the best is David G. Johnson, A Study of the Ideas of Charles M. Sheldon (University of Kansas, 1965).

Many histories of the social gospel period in American religious history make brief references to Sheldon.