Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait

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G.H. Doran, 1927 - 390 páginas
This work is a straightforward, no holds barred biographical account of the life of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was the archbishop of American liberal Protestantism. He came out on the right side of every question, always a little too late. He was referred to as the greatest preacher since St. Paul. He was mentioned for the presidency. He was a powerful writer of trash. This is an intriguing picture of the man and times.
 

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Página 30 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Página 47 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Página 30 - There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Página 270 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Página 322 - I do not say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman, but it is enough to support a man! . . . Not enough to support a man and five children if a man would insist on smoking and drinking beer. . . . But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live.
Página 324 - To tell me that there is a God who for unnumbered centuries has gone on creating men and sweeping them like dead flies — nay, like living ones — into hell, is to ask me to worship a being as much worse than the conception of any mediaeval devil as can be imagined ; but I will not worship the devil, though he should come dressed in royal robes, and sit on the throne of Jehovah.
Página 316 - Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before ; He that into God's kingdom comes Must enter by this door. Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed face to see ; For if thy work on earth be sweet, What will thy glory be...
Página 175 - This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right And this must be done thoroughly, — done in acts as well as in words.
Página 28 - At intervals, for days and weeks, I cried and prayed. There was scarcely a retired place in the garden, in the woodhouse, in the carriage-house, or in the barn that was not a scene of my crying and praying. It was piteous that I should be in such a state of mind, and that there should be nobody to help me and lead me out into the light.
Página 25 - As innocent as children seem to be to us, yet, if they are out of Christ, they are not so in God's sight, but are young vipers, and are infinitely more hateful than vipers...

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