Henry Ward Beecher

It would be no compliment to call Henry Ward Beecher the American

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

There are some ministers of commanding talents and influence, such as Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Parker, who are on the side of the Slave; but, generally speaking, the great men and the great churches are to be found in the ranks of his enemies.

God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited H.G. Adams 1854

Henry Ward Beecher, another major religious thinker and social reformer, argued in his widely read Lectures to Young Men 1848 that “satisfaction is not the product of excess, or of indolence, or of riches; but of industry, temperance, and usefulness.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The great American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher described summer as "a temperate zone in the mind ... just between laziness and labor."

Cathleen Falsani: A Religion Summer Reading List Cathleen Falsani 2011

The great American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher described summer as "a temperate zone in the mind ... just between laziness and labor."

Cathleen Falsani: A Religion Summer Reading List Cathleen Falsani 2011

In a eulogy to Lincoln, the clergyman Henry Ward Beecher brother to Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “No monument will ever equal the universal, spontaneous and sublime sorrow that in a moment swept down lines and parties, and covered up animosities, and in an hour brought a divided unity of grief and indivisible fellowship of anguish.”

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

In a eulogy to Lincoln, the clergyman Henry Ward Beecher brother to Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “No monument will ever equal the universal, spontaneous and sublime sorrow that in a moment swept down lines and parties, and covered up animosities, and in an hour brought a divided unity of grief and indivisible fellowship of anguish.”

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

The great American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher described summer as "a temperate zone in the mind ... just between laziness and labor."

Cathleen Falsani: A Religion Summer Reading List Cathleen Falsani 2011

• "A Library is not a luxury; it is a necessity," Henry Ward Beecher I of course wanted to send this to every right-wing congressperson trying to do away with public services

Rev. Ed Bacon: Living Into the Questions at Occupy L.A. Rev. Ed Bacon 2011

The great American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher described summer as "a temperate zone in the mind ... just between laziness and labor."

Cathleen Falsani: A Religion Summer Reading List Cathleen Falsani 2011