Publisher's Synopsis
1916. A selection of Social gospel sermons delivered by Herbert S. Bigelow, pastor of the Vine Street Congregational Church and a prominent Progressive Era reformer, on how some accepted institutions and social practices exist in violation of the principles to which members of his congregation professed adherence. Naturally such sermons proved to be more or less shocking. Contents: One as Well as Another; Our Daily Bread; Boxes of Alabaster; The Religion of Inspired Politics; A Village Infidel; The Abolition of Poverty; A Certain Rich Man; A Political Parable; Confiscation; The Governor's Congratulations; An Agitator; The Father's Farm; Bad for Business; Jehovah on Woman's Rights; A Fourteen-Million-Dollar Horse; Sons of Thunder; Mental Sanitation; A Profession of Faith; and Epitaphs.
