19th-Century Congregationalist Clergy - Lyman Abbott, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Leonard Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher, C. I. Scofield (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Lyman Abbott, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Leonard Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher, C. I. Scofield, Charles Leach, Leonard Woolsey Bacon, John Hoppus, Joshua Leavitt, George B. Bacon, Barzillai Quaife, Washington Gladden, Reuben Gaylord, Edward Woolsey Bacon, Thomas Davidson Christie, Thomas Rutherford Bacon, R. A. Torrey, James Sherman, James Godkin, Robert Moffat, James Strong, John Pye-Smith, Robert Halley, John Harris, Elijah Kellogg, Charles Beecher, William Salter, Asa Mahan, Joseph Barker, Edward Beecher, Richard Knill, Bolton Stafford Bird, Aaron Bancroft, Ephraim M. Wright, John Smith Moffat, Harvey Newcomb, John Kelly, David Dudley Field I, Edward Abbott, Samuel James Andrews. Excerpt: Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century. Daguerreotype of Beecher as a young manBorn in Litchfield, Connecticut, he was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian preacher from Boston, and Roxana Foote. Roxana died when Henry was three. Henry was the eighth of Lyman's thirteen children, some of whom were famous in their own right. His well-known siblings include writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, educators Catharine Beecher and Reverend Thomas K. Beecher, and activists Charles Beecher and Isabella Beecher Hooker. In addition, Henry was the uncle of Edgar Beecher Bronson. The Beecher household was exemplary of the orthodox ministry that Lyman Beecher preached. His family not only prayed at the beginning and end of each day but also sang hymns and prepared for other rigorous church obligations. The family members were expected to participate in prayer meetings, ...