Dick Falkner, a homeless young printer, drifts into Boyd City hungry and turned away by respectable churchgoers, until George Udell gives him a job. As Dick rises, falls in love with Amy Goodrich and wrestles with what Christianity ought to mean, the novel takes on saloons, vice and the indifference of comfortable congregations to the poor.
The first novel of a minister who became one of America’s best-selling writers, a key text of the social gospel. Download the free EPUB.