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DAVID SWING (1830-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:SWING (1830-1894)  , See also:American clergyman, was See also:born of Alsatian stock in See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, on the 23rd of See also:August 183o . He spent most of his boyhood on a See also:farm and earned his schooling; graduated at See also:Miami University in 1852; studied See also:theology at See also:Lane See also:Seminary; and was See also:principal of the preparatory school at Miami in 1853-1866 . He became pastor in '866 of the See also:Westminster Presbyterian See also:Church (after '868 the See also:Fourth Church) in See also:Chicago, which was destroyed in the See also:fire of 1871; he then preached in McVicker's See also:theatre until 1874, when a new See also:building was completed . In See also:April '874 he was tried before the See also:presbytery of Chicago on charges of See also:heresy preferred by Dr See also:Francis Landey See also:Patton, who argued that See also:Professor See also:Swing preached that men were saved by See also:works, that he held a " modal" Trinity, that he did not believe in plenary See also:inspiration, that he unduly countenanced See also:Unitarianism, &c . The presbytery acquitted Dr Swing, who resigned from the presbytery when he learned that the See also:case was to be appealed to the See also:synod . Ns an See also:action was taken against the church, of which he had remained pastor, he resigned the pastorate, again leased McVicker's theatre (and after '88o leased Central See also:Music See also:Hall, which was built for the purpose), and in 1875 founded the Central Church, to which many of his former parishioners followed him, and in which ,he built up a large See also:Sunday school, and established a See also:kindergarten, See also:industrial See also:schools, and other important charities . He died in Chicago on the 3rd of See also:October 1894 . He was an excellent preacher, but no theologian . He published Sermons (1874), including most of his " heretical " utterances, Truths for To-See also:day (2 vols., 1874–1876), Motives of See also:Life (1879), and See also:Club Essays (1881) . See See also:Joseph F . See also:Newton, See also:David Swing, Poet-Preacher (Chicago, 1909) .

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