Abbott, Dr. Lyman, on the Friday-evening meetings, 136;
characterization of Beecher's English speeches, 340; why
Mr. Beecher was liable to misinterpretation, 397; on Mr,
Beecher's faults, 458; Beecher's sermons philosophical, 501.
Abolition merchants boycotted, 193.
Adams's, Chas. Francis, compromise, 258.
Allon, Rev. Dr., of London, and some parishioners study the
Beecher trial, 395.
American Anti-Slavery Society's meetings in New York
broken up, 191.
American Unitarian Association formed in 1825, 36.
Amherst College and her greatest son, 44.
Ancestry of Henry Ward Beecher, 10-12.
Attendance at Plymouth Church, 120.
Bacon, Dr. L, Moderator of National Advisory Committee,
403.
Battle in U. S. Congress over Clay's Compromise Act, 184.
Beecher, Catherine, 21, 30.
Beecher, Charles, 23, 56, 139.
Beecher Children, estimate of their mother, 4–7.
Beecher, David, 11.
Beecher, Edward, 21.
Beecher, George, 21.
Beecher, George, son of Henry Ward, Death and burial of, 94.
Beecher, Henry Ward, birth of, 3; character inheritance from
his father and mother, 2, 3, 12; ancestors of, 3, 4; resem-
blance to his mother, 4; finds the correspondence between
his father and mother, 5; childhood contemporaries, 15, 16;
a compound of opposite characteristics, 16; childhood, 18-
27; at school, 28-35; progress not satisfactory, 29; his love
of nature, 31, 32; impressions of Sunday on the boy's mind,
33-35; in Boston, 37-40; Mount Plaesant Institute, 40-43;
in Amherst College, 44-54; engagement to Miss Eunice
White Bullard, 49; occupations during college years, 50–51;
enthusiasm for phrenology, 53-54; in Lane Theological
Seminary, 55; lectures on temperance and phrenology, 58;
editor of the Cincinnati Journal, 59; meditations recorded
in an old journal, 60; manifestation of God, 63–67; gradu-
ates from Lane Seminary, 69; call to Lawrenceburg, Ky., 69;
marriage 73; early married life, 74; ordained, 76; call to
Indianapolis, 78, 80; the Western evangelist, 80-91; life and
methods at Indianapolis, 85-88; revivals, 89-91; a sick
household, 92-94; editor of Farmer and Gardener, 95;
sermons on slavery, 96, 97; lectures to young men, 98-103;
call to Brooklyn, 104; addresses the American Home Mis-
sionary Society in New York, 106; formation of Plymouth
Church, 106; Plymouth Church organized, 107; invited to
become its pastor, 107; accepts the call, 108; first sermon in
Brooklyn, 111; examination by the Council, III; publicly
installed, 111; overflowing audiences, 116; speaks for the
Edmonson sisters, 117, 118; review of beginnings of his
ministry in Brooklyn, 119; church destroyed by fire, 119:
new and larger church built, 120; a representative congre-
gation, 121; relation to great national events, 123; services
in Plymouth Church, 126; prayers in Plymouth Church, 128–
130; the organ in Plymouth Church, 131; domestic sorrow,
133; Friday-evening meetings, 133-137; social features, 137;
morning prayer-meetings. 138; first voyage to England,
138-144; return to America, 145; articles in New York
Independent, 145; cordially welcomes Kossuth, 146;
revivals, 146-149; political and social reformer, 150;
summers in the country, 151-152; the Plymouth Collection
Hymn Book, 152-155; phenomenal genius and novel
methods, 156; discourse on reporters, 157; causes of popu-
larity and unpopularity, 156-162; battle for freedom, the,
163-178; speeches on freedom, slavery, and the Civil War,
168; article in The Independent, "Shall we compromise?"
179-184; on the duties to fugitive slaves, 186-188: intense
hatred in slavery circles against him, 189; Wendell Phillips,
prevented speaking in New York, delivers his address in
Plymouth Church, 191-192; speech before the American
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 194; attacks the Fugitive-
Slave Law, 195-199; rebukes John Mitchell for his utterances
on the slavery question, 205; the crisis, 207; lectures for the
freedom of Kansas, 210-212; speaks against the assault
committed on Chas. Sumner, 213; editorial in The Inde-
pendent, "On which side is peace?" 217-220; enters actively
the campaign of 1856, 220–226; sermon on The Nation's
Duty to Slavery, 228-237; collections in Plymouth Church,
to free slaves, 238-245; helps in the election of Lincoln, 246;
thanksgiving sermon after the election, 247-257; sermon on
Jan. 4, 1861, 259–262; war, 264; a strange Sunday, 264; a
great leader, 266; sermon preached during the siege of
Sumter, 267-272; toiling for liberty and the Union, 273;
sermon on The National Flag, 275-277; sermon on The
Camp, Its Dangers, and Duties, 277; sermon on The Modes
and Duties of Emancipation, 278-279; urges the Govern-
ment to announce a clear anti-slavery programme, 281–286;
visit to Europe in 1863, 287; receives news of the surrender
of Vicksburg and Gettysburg in Paris, 293; urged to speak
in England, 294; speech in Manchester, 299; in Glasgow,
309; in Edinburgh, 317; in Liverpool, 320; in Exeter Hall,
London, 330; end of the public campaign in England, 339;
return to America, 345; receptions in Brooklyn and New
York, 346; sails for Charleston with Garrison and others,
349; address at the raising of the American flag over
the walls of Fort Sumter, 350-354; opposed to humbling
the South, 356; lecture, The North Victorious," 357:
letter, disfavoring exclusion, to convention of soldiers and
sailors at Cleveland, 358; resigns as editor of The Indepen-
dent, 358; addresses the Congregational Council of 1865, in
Boston, 362; "Norwood," 367; his marvelous power with
words, 369; first course of twelve lectures on Preaching, in
Yale College, 371; the silver wedding of Plymouth Church,
372-379; the long darkness, 380; accused by Theodore Til-
ton, 383; suffering during next four years, 385; Tilton pub-
lishes a statement, 387; letter to committee of investigation,
388; completely exonerated by committee, 390; meeting in
Plymouth Church to adopt report, 391; Tilton begins action
for damages in Brooklyn City Court, 393; jury disagrees,
395; public opinion in favor of Beecher, 396-398; words to
his congregation before meeting of Advisory Council, 402;
meeting of Advisory Council, 402-413; address of welcome,
403; examination by Council, 408; Plymouth Church sus-
tained and its pastor held innocent, 412; lecture tours more
frequent than formerly, 416; new light on old problems, 420;
resigns his membership in the Congregational Association
of Ministers in New York and Brooklyn, 421; statement of
his theological opinions, 421-425; letter to Alfred Rose, 427;
pulpit thunderer and plumed knight, 429–434; last visit to
England, 435; enthusiastic receptions, 436; return to Brook-
lyn, 442; stricken ill, 443; death, March 8, 1887,444; funeral
services, 445-449; Rev. Chas. H. Hall's sermon, 447; burial
in Greenwood Cemetery, 448: qualities that made him a
MAN, 450-453; personal habits, 454,455; traits of character,
456-464; his morbid streak, 465-467; "Boscobel," country
residence in Peekskill, 467, 468; a lover of books and pic-
tures, 468, 469; fondness for jewels and music, 469; wit and
humor, 470-472; sociability, 472-474; as a letter-writer,
474, 475; the eloquent orator, 478-489; the preacher of
Christ, 490-512; unveiling of statue in Brooklyn, 513, 514:
the fertility of his mind, 517; his oratorical genius, 517-519:
preacher of the fundamental truths of Christianity, 519-526;
literary work, 527, 528; a life worth studying, ,28–530.
Beecher, John, 10.
Beecher, Joseph, 11.
Beecher, Lyman, last words to his dying wife, 1; king of the
New England pulpit, 8; striking eccentricities of character,
9; ancestry of, 10-12; preacher in East Hampton, L. I., 13;
way of treating itinerant Methodist preachers, 13; as a boy,
15; marries Miss Harriet Porter, 21; pastor of Hanover
Street Congregational Church, Boston, 36; president of
Lane Theological Seminary and removal to Cincinnati, 55;
students' exodus on account of his slavery position," 58;
meets his eleven children, 59; death of his second wife, 60;
trials and tribulations, 61-63; death, 2.
Beecher, Roxana Foote, dedicates her sons missionaries of
Christ, 1; death of, 2; loved by her children, 4-7; her
womanly qualities and charms, 6.
Beecher, Thomas K., 32, 39.
Bennett, James Gordon, editorials on the slavery question, 191.
Birth of Henry Ward Beecher, 3.
Birth of leaders in anti-slavery struggle and Civil War, 15,
Blaine, James G., 156, 429.
Bowen, Henry C., 106, 108, 192, 193.
Boyhood of Henry Ward Beecher, 18-35.
Brooklyn, New York, Beecher called to, 104.
Brooks, Phillips, compared with Beecher, 156, 493-494.
Brooks, Preston S., assaults Sumner, 212.
Brown's, John, attack on Harper's Ferry, 228.
Bullard, Eunice White, future wife of Henry Ward Beecher, 49.
Burial of Henry Ward Beecher in Greenwood Cemetery, 448.
Bushnell, Horace, 3.
Cable, Geo. W., 450.
Calhoun, John C., 179.
Call to Brooklyn, 104.
Causes of popularity and unpopularity. 156-162.
Celebrities of anti-slavery struggle, birth of, 15.
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