Introduction

Biography

Richardson be­came a na­tur­al­ized Am­eri­can ci­ti­zen in 1905 in Mas­sa­chu­setts.

He was edu­cat­ed at Law­rence Col­lege, Bos­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, and the Bos­ton Uni­ver­si­ty School of Theo­lo­gy (Ba­che­lor of Sac­red Theo­lo­gy, 1906).

He be­came a Meth­o­dist min­is­ter, pas­tored in Wis­con­sin and Mas­sa­chu­setts, taught at the Boston Uni­ver­si­ty School of Theo­lo­gy (1911–19), and was dean of the North­field Sum­mer School of Re­li­gious Edu­ca­tion (1919–24).

He lat­er served on the fa­cul­ty at North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, Ev­an­ston, Il­li­nois, and Mc­Cor­mick Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry in Chi­ca­go.

Works

• Present-Day Pray­er-Meet­ing Helps for Lay­men and Min­is­ter (New York & Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Ea­ton & Mains and Jen­nings & Gra­ham, 1910)
• The Re­li­gion of Mo­dern Man­hood; or, Mas­cu­line Top­ics for Men’s Bi­ble Class­es (New York & Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Ea­ton & Mains and Jen­nings & Gra­ham, 1911)
• Prolegomena to the First Ap­pear­ance of Li­ter­ary Pro­phe­cy in Is­ra­el (1911)
• The Re­li­gious Edu­ca­tion of Ad­o­les­cents (New York & Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Ab­ing­don Press, 1913)
• The Li­quor Prob­lem (New York & Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Ab­ing­don Press, 1915)
• The Boy Scout Move­ment Ap­plied by the Church (New York: C. Scrib­ner’s Sons, 1915)
• International Peace, a Stu­dy in Chris­tian Fra­ter­ni­ty (New York: Meth­o­dist Book Con­cern, 1915)
• The Church At Play; A Ma­nu­al for Di­rect­ors of So­cial and Rec­re­a­tion­al Life (1922)
• The Christ of the Class Room; How to Teach Ev­an­ge­li­cal Chris­ti­an­ity (New York: Mac­mil­lan, 1931)