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| H. W. Beecher (1813-1887). | |
| Immortality | [1] |
| Chapin (1814-1880). | |
| Nicodemus: The Seeker after Religion | [27] |
| Stanley (1815-1881). | |
| In Memoriam—Thomas Carlyle | [51] |
| Vaughan (1816-1897). | |
| God Calling to Man | [67] |
| Newman Hall (1816-1902). | |
| Christian Victory | [85] |
| Robertson (1816-1853). | |
| The Loneliness of Christ | [111] |
| Hitchcock (1817-1887). | |
| Eternal Atonement | [131] |
| Kingsley (1819-1875). | |
| The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth | [147] |
| Caird (1820-1898). | |
| Religion in Common Life | [167] |
| Storrs (1821-1900). | |
| The Permanent Motive in Missionary Work | [195] |
| Punshon (1824-1881). | |
| Zeal in the Cause of Christ | [219] |
HENRY WARD BEECHER
IMMORTALITY
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Henry Ward Beecher, preacher, orator, lecturer, writer, editor, and reformer, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He was by nature and training a great pulpit orator. Mr. Beecher kept himself in perfect physical condition for his work. He has described a course of vocal exercises which he pursued in the open air for a period of three years. "The drill I underwent," he says, "produced, not a rhetorical manner, but a flexible instrument, that accommodated itself readily to every kind of thought and every shape of feeling."
He had deep sympathy for all men, and this with his intense dramatic power often carried him into the wildest and most exalted flights of oratory. Phillips Brooks styled him the greatest preacher in America, and he is generally regarded as the most highly gifted of modern preachers. He was fearless, patriotic, clear-headed, witty, and self-sacrificing. Dr. Wilkinson calls him "the greatest pulpit orator the world ever saw." He died in 1887.