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See also:SWING, See also:DAVID (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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 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
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
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, David Swing, Poet-Preacher (Chicago, 1909).
End of Article: SWING, DAVID (1830-1894)
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