Truths leaf by leaf

Front matter

Class JElE I

Book . l_^ Z_.

Copyright N°_

Prefatory Note

Among American authors, few stand before us whose personality is more clearly defined than that of Rev. David Swing.

No serious attempt has ever been made to bring together in completeness his work. The publication of fragmentary writings., not in concert, may at first seem a literary offense, but there is pleaded a versatile public, and the relations of much written matter, powerful when delivered, but, like flowers passed on to others because their purpose has been served, now, to the casual reader, valueless.

The text from his most mature and last unpublished writings has been scrupulously revised, inspired by the hope of illumination through long listening to the poet-preacher. Some variation with the original order has taken place, in an attempt to bring material together in acceptable form. The subject headings are Prof. Swing's choice.

In the selection the editor is entirely responsible. Notes taken by her at conversational lectures, also certain personal correspondence, were to be included, but want of more "ample room" requires their omission.

Two words of our author, "along come," hold the keynote of his life and writings.

"When historians all deceive us, along comes some word to whisper to us the most precious truth."

S. B. K.

Chicago, June, 1905.

SYNOPSIS

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INTRODUCTION 13

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, D.D.

Newell Dwight Hillis, D.D.

THE ADMIRATION OF BEAUTY

Worship in the Beauty of Holiness .... 48

The Out-Door Age 55

Toil and Repose 73

Faith and Happiness 78

THE HUMAN MULTITUDE— THOSE STRANGE HEIRS OF TWO WORLDS!

Humanity 93

The Intervening God 135

The Fullness of Civilization 143

A Simpler and Greater Religion . . . . .165

The Education of the Heart 171

The Religious Spirit 177

The Realities of Religion 183

The Son of God 194

The Race of Seventy Miles 203

AGAR A

The Modern Respect for Mankind . . . . 211

The Poets and Immortality 229