Includes bibliographical references and index.

The seventeenth century : Robert Cushman -- John Winthrop -- John Cotton -- Thomas Hooker -- Thomas Shepard -- Jonathan Mitchel -- Samuel Danforth -- Increase Mather -- Cotton Mather -- The eighteenth century : Solomon Stoddard -- Benjamin Colman -- Charles Chauncy -- Mather Byles -- Jonathan Edwards -- Samuel Johnson -- Jonathan Mayhew -- Samuel Davies -- Samuel Finley -- A sermon in praise of swearing / Anon. -- Samuel Cooke -- Nathanael Emmons -- Devereux Jarratt -- The nineteenth century : Lemuel Haynes -- Absalom Jones -- John Comly -- William Ellery Channing -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Joseph Smith -- Theodore Parker -- Lucretia Mott -- Brother Carper -- Henry Ward Beecher -- David Einhorn -- Dwight Lyman Moody -- Octavius Brooks Frothingham -- T. De Witt Talmage -- Sam P. Jones -- Phillips Brooks -- The twentieth century : Francis J. Grimk�e -- J. Gresham Machen -- Aimee Semple McPherson -- Reuben Archer Torrey -- Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Billy Sunday -- Abba Hillel Silver -- C.C. Lovelace -- Paul Tillich -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- C.L. Franklin -- Fulton J. Sheen -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- John Courtney Murray -- Abraham Joshua Heschel.