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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
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beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
A man in the city hotel, and not a little feared because of his
brutality, had done something more brutal than usual, and, the
facts coming to Mr. Beecher's knowledge, in his sermon on the
following Sunday he expressed in no gentle terms his abhorrence of
the act, and in very strong language rebuked the man.... As he
passed the hotel there were several standing by, evidently waiting
for some development. At that moment the man came down the steps
with a pistol in his hand. "Did you say thus and so in your sermon
yesterday?" "I did." "Did you intend those remarks for me, or were
you meaning me?" "I most certainly did." "Then take it back right
here, or by -- I'll shoot you on the spot." "Shoot away" was the
reply... -from Chapter X Liberal preacher, abolitionist, social
reformer, and proponent for women's suffrage, HENRY WARD BEECHER
(1813-1887), brother of Uncle Tom novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe,
was one of the most fiery personalities in American public life in
the 19th century. This stunningly comprehensive and frank 1888
biography-begun by Beecher himself and completed just after his
death by his son WILLIAM CONSTANTINE BEECHER (1849-1928) and
son-in-law REV. SAMUEL SCOVILLE (1834-1902)-omits not one moment of
controversy in Beecher's life. From his arming of antislavery
forces in the run-up to the Civil War with rifles that came to be
dubbed "Beecher's Bibles" to the shocking sex scandal that dogged
him in the 1870s, this is the no-holds-barred life of a man
passionate of spirit and strong of will. OF INTEREST TO: students
of American history, social activists, readers of biography
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