Claire Netemeyer   APUSH website 2015-16

Rauschenbush: Since Rauschenbush was a preacher at the Second German Baptist Church on the edge of the crime-filled Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in Mantattan, he directly experienced the injustice of poverty and corruption that filled the city (PBS). Against this corruption, Rauschenbusch began to write descriptions of the brutal reality experienced by the poor in New York in Baptist newspapers and magazines and even requested the help of tycoon Rockefeller to build a second church (BU). Unlike other Christian preachers, he belived that sin was not personal but of the sociert as a whole and needed to be restructured to fix these problems (PBS). He argued that religious belief must be put into practice to correct society, and that if people acted like Chist, their society would not experience the problems that it was having (PBS). This was the basis of the "Social Gospel," which suggested that poverty (caused by the flaws in captialism) was the cause of man's sin (Brinkley, 521).

Moody: Since he was a minister in Chicago, he was deeply affected by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 and decided that he should rethink his evangelism from focusing on the wealthy and spread the gospel overseas (Moody.edu). After a few years focused in Europe, Moody returned to America where he was also affected by the poverty caused by the Industrial Revolution and, in turn, founded the The Chicago Evangelization Society and many other schools where women and other minorities could be educated about the Bible (Moody.edu). He also Moody primarily focused on bridging the gap between different denominations of Christianity because he believed that knowing the word of God itself was more important than any other small details across different sectors of the religion (Moody.edu).