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Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed to Charles R. Crane. Bookplate of his son John Oliver Crane inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling and foxing. xvii p., 2 l., 225 p. 19 cm. Herron was one of the wisest men of the 20th century, coining the term "The Great Disappointment" for Woodrow Wilson, who abandoned his moral principles to placate angry conservatives. Herron predicted the disaster of punishing Germany so severely leading to a second World World War. herron, who resembled and acted like an Old Testament prophet, also believed that the church was going crazy over Capitalism and losing its morality for greed and competition and other non Christian ideas. He was a pusher of the Social Gospel and inspired Civil Rights leaders. From Wikipedia: "George D. Herron (1862 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer, and Christian socialist activist. Herron is best remembered as a leading exponent of the so-called "Social Gospel" movement and for his highly publicized divorce and remarriage to the daughter of a wealthy benefactor which scandalized polite society of the day. A self-imposed exile from America followed. During World War I, Herron broke with the anti-militarist Socialist Party and filed regular intelligence reports on German public opinion to the American and British governments in support of the Allied war effort. George Davis Herron was born January 21, 1862, in Montezuma, Indiana, the son of poor parents, Isabella Davis and William Herron. In 1883, Herron became a Congregationalist minister. He was the pastor of a Congregational church in Lake City, Minnesota from 1890 to 1891, before moving to another church at Burlington, Iowa. He would remain there for 17 months, preaching twice weekly on Sunday Mmorning and evening. Many of Herron's sermons were published in the pages of the local newspaper and two or three volumes of these were collected in hard covers. Young men of the church he organized into a Christian Social Union, to which he lectured each Monday evening; a similar gathering was held for young women every Tuesday. Herron became interested in the Social Gospel movement and organized a study group called the Institute of Christian Sociology while in Iowa. It was in Minnesota that Herron first achieved widespread notoriety, when he delivered a provocative sermon, "The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth" before the Minnesota Congregationalist Club in Minneapolis in 1890: One of those impressed with the vision and energy of the young preacher was a wealthy parishioner, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Rand. Rand decided to put Herron into a position where he could reach more people with his ideas by endowing a new chair in "Applied Christianity" at Iowa College (now Grinnell) on Herron's behalf. Beginning in 1893 and for the next six years, Herron taught on campus, gaining national renown given the novelty of the subject matter. From 1892 until 1899, Herron was a quiet supporter of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP), the intellectual leader of which was party newspaper editor Daniel DeLeon. Herron exited the SLP in the aftermath of its bitter 1899 faction fight and joined the Social Democratic Party of America headed by Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs, only then making his status as a socialist a matter of public knowledge. He actively campaigned for Debs in the Presidential election of 1900. A gifted public speaker, Herron was called upon to deliver the nominating speech for Debs at the 1904 National Convention of the Socialist Party, held in Chicago. In 1905, his benefactor Mrs. Rand died, leaving a will which allotted $200, 000 to "carry on and further the work to which I have devoted the later years of my life." George Herron and Carrie Rand Herron were named the trustees of this fund, which was used to establish a library and school for socialist education, the Rand School of Social Science. This institution carried on for the next half century, eventually donating its library to New York University at the time of its dissolution, where it formed the initial core of today's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives...
