The World's Great Sermons, Volume 6 - H. W. Beecher to Punshon by Various
H. W. Beecher (1813-1887). Immortality
Chapin (1814-1880). Nicodemus: The Seeker after Religion
Stanley (1815-1881). In Memoriam—Thomas Carlyle
Vaughan (1816-1897). God Calling to Man
Newman Hall (1816-1902). Christian Victory
Robertson (1816-1853). The Loneliness of Christ
Hitchcock (1817-1887). Eternal Atonement
Kingsley (1819-1875). The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth
Caird (1820-1898). Religion in Common Life
Storrs (1821-1900). The Permanent Motive in Missionary Work
Punshon (1824-1881). Zeal in the Cause of Christ
Henry Ward Beecher was an American preacher and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Reared in a Puritan atmosphere, he has graphically described the mystical experience which, coming to him in his early youth, changed his whole conception of theology and determined his choice of the ministry.
It was in the pulpit that Beecher was seen at his best. His mastery of the English tongue, his dramatic power, his instinctive art of impersonation, which had become a second nature, his vivid imagination, his breadth of intellectual view, his quaint humor alternating with genuine pathos, and above all his simple and singularly unaffected devotional nature, made him as a preacher without a peer in his own time and country.
He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
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