Alden H. Clark › Recommendations

Born: June 26, 1878, Min­ne­a­po­lis, Min­ne­so­ta.
Died: May 27, 1960, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.
Buried: Mount Au­burn Cem­e­te­ry, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts

Clark at­tend­ed Am­herst Coll­ege; Un­ion The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­a­ry, New York; and Co­lum­bia Un­i­ver­si­ty. In 1904, he went to In­dia as a Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church mis­sion­a­ry; in 1925, he found­ed the Nag­pa­da Neigh­bor­hood House in Bom­bay (now Mum­bai). He lat­er served as prin­cip­al of Un­ion Train­ing Coll­ege and the Unit­ed The­o­lo­gic­al Coll­ege, sec­re­ta­ry to the Amer­i­can Board of Com­mis­sion­ers for For­eign Mis­sions (1930-47), and trust­ee of the In­ter­na­tion­al Me­dic­al Mis­sion­a­ry So­ci­e­ty and sec­re­ta­ry for In­dia, Cey­lon (now Sri Lanka), Phil­ip­pines, Spain, and Mex­i­co. His works in­clude:

Was It Worth­while?, 1915
India on the March, 1922
The So­cial Dy­nam­ic of Je­sus, 1930

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