Produced by Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) SIXTY YEARS WITH PLYMOUTH CHURCH * * * * * [Illustration: STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD] * * * * * SIXTY YEARS WITH PLYMOUTH CHURCH BY STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh * * * * * Copyright, 1907, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street * * * * * DEDICATED To my New England Mother, who long since entered into rest. * * * * * CONTENTS PAGE I. Coming to New York 15 II. Early Plymouth 22 III. A Plymouth Usher 30 IV. Plymouth Services 45 V. Plymouth Members 59 VI. Buying a Slave Girl 70 VII. Mr. Beecher in England 81 VIII. The Beecher Trial 90 IX. The Church Tested 101 X. Church Thought and Life 115 XI. The Church Staff 129 XII. The Fort Sumter Expedition 142 XIII. Quaker City Excursion 153 XIV. Personalia 167 XV. Future Plymouth 182 * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Stephen M. Griswold Title Henry Ward Beecher 15 Lyman Abbott 105 Newell Dwight Hillis 133 Beecher Statue, City Hall, Brooklyn 153 Interior of Plymouth Church 173 Chair Used by Henry Ward Beecher in 187 Plymouth Church * * * * * _PREFACE_