WARD BEECHER, preacher, orator, lecturer, writer, editor, and reformerJ was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He was by nature and training a great pulpit orator. ~fr. Beecher kept himself in perfect physical condition for his work.. He has descli.bed Q. course of vocal exercises ,~hieh he pursued in the open nir for a period of three years. '(The drill I undenvent," ho says, "produced, not a rhetorical manner, but a flexible instrument, that accommodated it.self rEadily to ev~ kind of thought and eve~ shape of feeling." He had deep sYlnpathy for all nlen, and this wit.h his intense dramatic power often carried him into the wildest and most exalted flights of oratory. Phillips Brooks styled him the greatest preacher in Americ3., and he is generally regarded as tho most highly gifted of modem. preachers.. He was fearless, patriotic, clear-headed, witty, and self-sacrificing. Dr. Wilkinson ealls him "the greatest pulpit orator the world e~er
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; VOLUME VI; H W BEECIIER (1813-1887) Page; Immortality · · · · · ·· 1; CHAPIN (1814-J 880 ) ; Nieodcm us: Tha Seeker after Re-; 1igion ······· 27; STANLEY (1815-1881); In ~{emoriam-Thomas Carlyle · · 51; VAUGHAN (1816-1897); God Culling to Man · · · · · (j7; NEWMAN HALL (1816-1902); Christian Victory · · · · · 85; ROBEnTSON (1816-1853); The Loneliness of Christ · · · · 111; HITOHCOCK (1817-1887); Eternal Atonement · · · · · 131; KINGSLEY (1810-1875); The Shaking of the Heavens and the; Earth _ · · · · · 147; CADID (1820-1898); U~ligiol1 in Comluon Life · · · 167; STORRS (1821--1900); The Permanent Motiva in ~Iissionary; Work · ··· ·· 195; PuNSHON (182-1--1881); Zeal ill the Cause of Christ · 219
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