Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 04: L. Beecher to Bushnell
LYMAN BEECHER was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1775. He graduated from Yale in 1797, and in 1798 took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Easthampton, Long Island. He first attracted attention by his sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton, and in 1810 became pastor of the...