Education
After graduating from Middleburgh High School, he entered Harvard College in 1894, studied journalism, and graduated in 1896 (A.B.). He worked as a reporter for the Springfield Republican, received his "call," and attended Boston Theological Seminary. In 1902 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary of New York City. and worked as a minister in the Ramapo Mountains near West Point. He published his first book, Quo vaditis?: A call to the old moralities in 1903. A typical selection shows that, from the beginning, he was against the money-making spirit in the land. "I have seen a People crazed with new-got riches, a drunk-headed People, a People giddied with great possessions. A wildness was upon them, but it was not a wildness for the desirables of life."
After a year at Ramapo he became pastor of the Congregational Church of the Thousand Islands at Clayton, New York the next three years. White was ordained a Congregational minister in 1904. He then accepted the position of head of the Men's Social Service department in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, where he remained until he was dismissed in 1913.
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