Sherwood Eddy

Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963) was an American Protestant missionary, author, administrator and educator. He was born George Sherwood Eddy on January 19, 1871 to George Alfred Eddy and Margaret Louise Nolan at Leavenworth, Kansas. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, graduated from Yale University in 1891 and then studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1896. As a national secretary of the YMCA he worked in an honorary capacity among students in Japan, Korea, China, India, the Near East, and Russia. He died on November 4, 1963 at Jacksonville, Illinois.

Selected bibliography

• The Awakening of India, (1911)
• The New Era in Asia, (1913)
• The Students of Asia, (1915)
• Suffering and the War, (1916)
• With Our Soldiers in France, (1917)
• Everybody's World, (1920)
• Eddy, Sherwood; Kirby Page (1924). The abolition of war. New York: George H. Doran. 
• Eddy, Sherwood; Kirby Page (1926). Makers of freedom; biographical sketches in social progress. New York: George H. Doran Company. ISBN 0836918037. 
• What Shall I Believe in the Light of Psychology and the New Science, (1926)
• Russia Today: What Can we Learn from It?, (1934)
• Revolutionary Christianity, 1934)
• Ten Suggestions for Personal work, (1934)

He wrote other works which were published in England and India. He is also known today for his works with the Oxford Group evangelical group, a predecessor to Alcoholics Anonymous. There also exists a YMCA named after him.

External links

• Works by Sherwood Eddy at Project Gutenberg