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Title: Henry Ward Beecher: a sketch of his career: with analyses of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist, and incidents and reminiscences of his life
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Halliday, Samuel B. (Samuel Byram), 1812-1897
Subjects: Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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is seen in his greatness as apreacher. Power in the pulpit is felt so differently upon differentminds, that no two would award the same position relatively to the same man. But taking all things into the account, I have noreluctance whatever in according to Mr. Beecher the first placeamong the preachers of the world to-day. What little I know ofpreaching and preachers compels this avowal in all honesty, as I amconvinced that his ministry has sent forth a moulding voice andinfluence which have given new tones of health, ardor, and life tothousands in the pulpit. Having consecrated his high powers to the elucidation and enforcement of the grandest themes of prac-tical and experimental import for a full generation, and done thisin a way that was never properly attempted before, it is no won-der that humdrum prosiness, dignified tediousness, and profitlessspeculation should have given place among us to the spirited,forceful, and profitable pulpit address of to-day. It is said of the TIL . .
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ANALYSES OF HIS POWER, AND REMINISCENCES. 291 late Dean of Westminster that he was the enthusiastic and brilliantscholar of his noble tutor Arnold, and that he established theschool that his master created. But Mr. Beecher is his own orig-inal, he is a copy of no model in modern times. His sermonsexhibit a larger reading of human nature, a broader use of philo-sophical inquiry, a fresher application of gospel truths, a clearerinduction of common-sense, and a more independent rectitude,than has fallen to the lot of any modern preacher, enstamping hissermons with a vehement individuality which amounts to a newcreation in that line. His subjects sweep the whole sphere oftruth, being endless in their variety, and become, year by year,fuller, broader, and richer, as if the supply were inexhaustible.Equally at home on all subjects which he chooses, he is ever lucidin his treatment, and bracing to the tired and nagging sons of men.He leaves nothing of consequence to the perfection of a disco

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