Henry ward beecher biography
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Scientist of the Day - Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher, an American pastor and preacher, was born June 24, The younger brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, he was a staunch abolitionist and advocate for women's suffrage. He became the pastor for the Congregationalist Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in (third image, below) and held the pulpit for forty years, until his death in He was said to be, in the s, the third most famous man in the United States, after Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
Portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, photograph, (Beinecke Library, Yale, via Wikimedia commons)
Beecher merits inclusion as a Scientist of the Day because, in the s, he accepted Darwin's theory of evolution, thought that it was perfectly compatible with Christianity, and in , delivered a series of eight sermons on Evolution and Religion, which he would then publish under that title later that year. The first sermon was delivered on May 24, , and the gods just eight we
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Henry Ward Beecher ()
Henry Ward Beecher was a fighter – and out of his Brooklyn pulpits. &#;One of the greatest and most remarkable orators of his time was Henry Ward Beecher. I never met his equal in readiness and versatility. His vitality was infectious. He was a big, healthy, vigorous man with the physique of an athlete, and his intellectual fire and vigor corresponded with his physical strength. There seemed to be no limit to his ideas, anecdotes, illustrations, and incidents. He had a fervid imagination and wonderful power of assimilation and reproduction and most observant of eyes. He was drawing material constantly from the forests, the flowers, the gardens, and the domestic animals in the fields and in the house, and using them most effectively in his sermons and speeches,&#; recalled Republican politician Chauncey M. Depew.1
As a speaker, wrote biographer Joseph R. Howard, Rev. Beecher was &#;always ready, hearty, sincere, with a purpose intelligently put, intelligen
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Henry Ward Beecher
American clergyman and abolitionist (–)
This article is about the American clergyman. For the medical doctor, see Henry K. Beecher.
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, – March 8, ) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on Christ's love has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.
Beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his era. Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and activists, most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst College in and Lane Seminary in before serving as a minister in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and later in Indianapolis's Second Presbyterian Church when the congregation r