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Henry Ward Beecher
Sign in to saveAmerican clergyman and activist (1813–1887)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1813
- Died
- 1887
- Works
- 427
Top works
- Selections from sermons, lectures and essays
- Patriotic addresses in America and England, 1850-1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States
- Evolution and religion
- Sphere of the Christian minister
- A review of the Beecher case
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,192x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,404x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,781x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
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Quotes
- “Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”
- “A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”
- “Humor is...nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.”
- “Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.”
- “The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion. So the immigrants of all races and nations become Americans, and it is a disgrace to our institutions and a shame to our policy to abuse them or drive them away.”
- “[N]o emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1813-06-24 ) June 24, 1813, Litchfield, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- March 8, 1887 (1887-03-08) (aged 73), Queens, New York , U.S.
- Occupations
- Congregational clergyman abolitionist
- Spouse
- Eunice White Beecher ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1837 )
- Father
- Lyman Beecher
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) 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 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ 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 1834 and Lane Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and later in Indianapolis's Second Presbyterian Church when the congregation resided at Circle Hall at Monument Circle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Henry Ward Beecher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.