Best Thoughts of Henry Ward Beecher, with Biographical Sketch
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Abbott, Lyman. Best Thoughts of Henry Ward Beecher, with Biographical Sketch. New York: H. S. Goodspeed & Co., 1893. First Edition. [11076] Publisher's brick red cloth, 8 1/4 x 6 inches, frontispiece portrait, 320 clean pp., tight. Very good. Hardcover. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), son of Rev. Lyman Beecher, born at Litchfield, Connecticut. He graduated at Amherst, 1834, and at Lane Theological Seminary in 1837. Beecher served as pastor for a short time at two Presbyterian churches in Indiana before accepting the call to the Plymouth Church (Congregational) in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1847. “…Beecher attained to the position of the most popular and widely known preacher in America. As a public lecturer he was no less successful. In his sermons he disregarded conventionalities both in subject and manner. His wit and humor appeared in his preaching, which, nevertheless, was earnest and edifying, and revealed a great character, sincere and reverent; his public prayers in particular were

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