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SWING, DAVID (1830-1894)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 238 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SWING, DAVID (1830-1894) , American clergyman, was born of Alsatian stock in Cincinnati,
Ohio
 , on the 23rd of August 183o. He spent most of his boyhood on a farm and earned his schooling; graduated at
Miami
  University in 1852; studied theology at Lane
Seminary
 ; and was principal of the preparatory school at
Miami
  in 1853-1866. He became pastor in '866 of the Westminster Presbyterian Church (after '868 the Fourth Church) in Chicago, which was destroyed in the fire of 1871; he then preached in McVicker's theatre until 1874, when a new building was completed. In April '874 he was tried before the presbytery of Chicago on charges of heresy preferred by Dr Francis Landey Patton, who argued that Professor Swing preached that men were saved by works, that he held a " modal" Trinity, that he did not believe in plenary
inspiration
 , that he unduly countenanced Unitarianism, &c. The presbytery acquitted Dr Swing, who resigned from the presbytery when he learned that the case was to be appealed to the synod. Ns an 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 Music
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 Sunday school, and established a
kindergarten
 , industrial schools, and other important charities. He died in Chicago on the 3rd of October 1894. He was an excellent preacher, but no theologian. He published Sermons (1874), including most of his " heretical " utterances, Truths for To-day (2 vols., 18741876), Motives of Life (1879), and Club Essays (1881).
See Joseph F. Newton,
David
  Swing, Poet-Preacher (Chicago, 1909).


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