Transcriber’s Note: Writings are ordered by category, then publication year (goal is earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically (ignoring “A”, “An”, and “The”). Investigation of spelling involved Google’s Ngram Viewer (//books.google.com/ngrams/). Appendix 1 was created for this book and is ordered alphabetically by title. Appendix 2 also was created for this book. Additional new material, and the compilation, are granted to the public domain. This plain text version of the book uses underscores (_) to denote the start and end of italicized text and equal signs (=) to denote the start and end of bold text. COLLECTED WRITINGS OF CLARENCE EDWIN FLYNN First Edition, 1929 and Earlier PREFACE LIST OF WRITINGS BY CATEGORY WRITINGS APPENDIX 1: BYLINES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, NOTES APPENDIX 2: SELECTED QUOTES AND ZINGERS “It is the glad service which lifts the world a little farther in its long, hard climb.” _The Obligation of Good Cheer_ PREFACE What follows is a brief introduction to Mr. Flynn, his authorship of these writings, and how this book came about. From my research on his life, which I made available at //prabook.com/web/clarence.flynn/1084802, Clarence Edwin Flynn (1886–1970) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, writer, hymnist and lecturer. He’s described as a “writer of stories, articles and verse appearing in periodicals and anthologies” and is “represented in anthologies of verse. General character writing, religious, educational.” [1] [2] [3] His writings (sans poems) appeared in more than 50 different domestic and international publications. Were all of these writings authored by Clarence Edwin Flynn? I cannot say that is true with certainty, but I’ll offer the following support. Firstly, there’s moderate support in the fact that the middle initial “E” is used in all but two bylines; two bylines have no middle name or initial. Secondly, almost a third of the bylines offer strong support through the attributes mainly of title (e.g. Reverend) and locations that correspond with his biography. Thirdly, moderate to strong support can be found in the writings’ content, which is the basis for including more than half of the writings. Religious topics certainly offer strong support. As for the wide variety of other topics covered, the reader will find multiple cases where Reverend Flynn encourages preachers to broaden their knowledge and experiences in order to better serve their congregations. And if you find the content strong in the art of persuasion, Flynn was a member of the college oratory team. In conclusion, this brief analysis is limited by the absence of Clarence Edwin Flynn’s personal papers (their status is unknown to me).