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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
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Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-
Clergyman; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813; son of Lyman Beecher; was graduated at Amherst College in 1834.
He afterwards studied theology in Lane Seminary.
For a few years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Indiana, first at Lawrenceburg and then at Indianapolis.
In
Henry Ward Beecher. 1847 he was called to the pastorate of a new Congregational organization in Brooklyn, called Plymouth Church, over which he presided as pastor till his death, March 8, 1887.
From the beginning of his ministry, Mr. Beecher held a high rank as a public teacher and pulpit orator, with a constantly increasing reputation.
Laying aside the conventionalities of his sacred profession, and regarding the Gospel minister as peculiarly a leader in social life, his sermons were always marked by practical good-sense, and embraced in their topies the whole field of human society.
They were largely made up of illustrations drawn from every phase of life and the in
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Litchfield, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-
Clergyman; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813; son of Lyman Beecher; was graduated at Amherst College in 1834.
He afterwards studied theology in Lane Seminary.
For a few years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Indiana, first at Lawrenceburg and then at Indianapolis.
In
Henry Ward Beecher. 1847 he was called to the pastorate of a new Congregational organization in Brooklyn, called Plymouth Church, over which he presided as pastor till his death, March 8, 1887.
From the beginning of his ministry, Mr. Beecher held a high rank as a public teacher and pulpit orator, with a constantly increasing reputation.
Laying aside the conventionalities of his sacred profession, and regarding the Gospel minister as peculiarly a leader in social life, his sermons were always marked by practical good-sense, and embraced in their topies the whole field of human society.
They were largely made up of illustrations drawn from every phase of life and the i
Edinburgh (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
America (Indiana, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Dixon, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward