A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward BeecherScoville, Samuel
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A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
Scoville, Samuel
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Church and Steamboat—Jenny Lind—Hospitality—Colonel 350-395
Pertzel—The Family—Twins—Medicine—Giving Counsel—For
the Sailor—An Absurd Story
contradicted—Salisbury—Trouting—Death of Alfred and
Arthur—Letters to his Daughter at
School—Lenox—Equivocal Honors declined—The
Pulpit—“Plymouth Collection”—“Shining Shore“—A
Church Liturgy—Courting with his Father’s old
Love-letters—1857 a Year of Trial—Matteawan—Visit to
Litchfield—1858 a Year of Harvest—Revival
Meetings—Hospitality of Plymouth Church—Courtesy to
Errorists—New Organ—Peekskill—Letters to his
Daughter abroad—Marriage of his
Daughter—Lecturing—Title of D. D. declined—Flowers
in Church—Christian Liberty in the use of the
Beautiful—His two Lines of Labor
CHAPTER XIX.
Visit to England in 1863—The Need of Rest—Condition of 396-407
Affairs at Home—Arrival at Liverpool—Refusal to
Speak—Visit to the Continent—Reception by the King
of Belgium—Civil War discussed—News of
Victories—Return to England
CHAPTER XX.
Facing the Mob in Manchester—Glasgow—Edinburgh—Desperate
Attempts to break Mr. Beecher down at 408-442
Liverpool—Victory in London
CHAPTER XXI.
Close of the War—Distrust of the 443-456
Administration—Kindlier Feelings after Mr. Beecher’s
Return from England—Growing Confidence—Intimacy with
Secretary Stanton—Fort Sumter—Lee’s
Surrender—Lincoln’s Death
CHAPTER XXII.
Reconstruction—Mr. Beecher favors speedy 457-478
Readmission—Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention at
Cleveland—The “Cleveland Letters” cause great
Excitement
CHAPTER XXIII.
The “Silver Wedding” of Plymouth Church—Children’s 479-487
Day—Services in the Church—Reunion of old
Members—Historical Reminiscences—Dr. Storrs’s
Tribute
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Conspiracy—Relations with Mr. Bowen—Disputes and 488-522
Arbitration—Theodore Tilton’s Early Promise and
Intimacy with Mr. Beecher—Bowen’s Ill-Will and
Tilton’s Malice—Tilton discharged from _Independent_
and Brooklyn _Union_—Tripartite Agreement—Moulton
and Tilton Conspire to Blackmail Mr. Beecher—Tilton
consults Dr. Storrs
CHAPTER XXV.
After-Effects—Charges against Tilton—Advisory 523-536
Council—Investigating Committee called by Mr.
Beecher—Its Report—Dropping Mr. Moulton—Council
called by Plymouth Church
CHAPTER XXVI.
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