Swing, David; Patton, Francis L. The World's Edition of the Great Presbyterian Conflict: Patton vs. Swing, Both Sides of the Question. Chicago: Geo. MacDonald & Co., 1874. First Edition. [10664]
Green cloth decorated in gilt & black, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, edge-wear with fraying at the corner tips and spine ends. 170 pp., tight. Good. Hardcover.
Title continues: With Portraits of Profs. Patton and Swing. And containing a full outline of the circumstances which preceded the trial, many of which are not known to the public. Pulpit sketches of Profs. Swing and Patton, by the Rev. Chas. L. Thompson, of this city. Also, the fourteen famous sermons preached by Prof. Swing, "for utterances in which" the prosecution has based its charges of heterodoxy. The Celebrated "Charges and Specifications;" Prof. Swing's Declaration; Prof. Patton's famous argument; the answer to the same by Prof. Swing and his counsel; the closing argument of Prof. Patton, and the verdict of the Presbytery.
The popular Chicago pastor Rev. David Swing was accused by Professor Francis L. Patton of liberal heresies. Swing was acquitted by Presbytery, but upon hearing that Patton was going to appeal to synod, Swing resigned from presbytery and founded Central Church in Chicago, taking many of his former parishioners with him.
Swing had been professor of Latin and Greek and principal of the Preparatory Department at Miami University, Ohio. Patton was professor in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago, later named McCormick Theological Seminary.
