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Amid sobs from the congregation, the collection plates were heaped high with money to free the slave girl. Thereafter Henry Ward Beecher, zealous Abolitionist, continued to bring slaves into his Plymouth Church. This congregation had been founded in 1846 by three men who broke away, from the nearby Church of the Pilgrims. Inducing Henry Ward Beecher to be their preacher, they soon heard people saying: ''If you want to hear him preach, take the ferry to Brooklyn and then follow the crowd." Preacher Beecher stayed with Plymouth Church for the remaining 40 years of his life...
...efficiently their combined properties worth $1,000,000 and their $500.000 endowment, the two congregations totaling 1,500 voted to merge. Under the name "Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,'' with two ministers alternating in the pulpit, the new church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published by his grandnephew, Publicist Lyman Beecher Stowe. Called Saints, Sinners and Beechers...
...Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...
...time he was a preacher in Boston in 1826, Lyman Beecher had become a "New School" Calvinist, believing both in free will and predestination. In 1835 when he was president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Lyman Beecher was tried for heresy. In a day when a theological squabble never failed to titillate the public, his trial and acquittal were front-page news all over the U. S. His children...
Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...