Henry Ward Beecher

1813–1887 · Congregational (United States) · Brooklyn, New York

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), son of Lyman Beecher, was pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, from 1847 until his death and the most widely heard preacher in America. He used the pulpit for the anti-slavery cause and for a genial theology of divine love, and his sermons, taken down weekly, were syndicated in the newspapers and issued in the Plymouth Pulpit.