Shearman, Thomas G. Henry Ward Beecher: Entered into Rest March 8, 1887. A Memorial Service held in Plymouth Church
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Shearman, Thomas G. Henry Ward Beecher: Entered into Rest March 8, 1887. A Memorial Service held in Plymouth Church, on Sunday, March 8 1891, By the Plymouth Sunday-School. New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1891. 1st . [325]  Fine clean condition. Stiff paper wrapper, 7 1/4 x 6 inches, 44 pp. plus (3) publisher's catalogue. Very good. Pamphlet. The first 11 pp. are a record of the proceedings, while pp. 12-44 are the address by Shearman. He gives the life, accomplishments, and character of Beecher in his address. 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 success

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