Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons by Beecher, Henry Ward - 1874

New York: J.B. Ford, 1870. Pamphlet. Good. J.B. Ford, New York, 1870. Good. , Pamphlet, Original pamphlet. 24 pages. Front cover detached, chipped at edges. Pages numbered 74-97. Sermon #5: The Heavenly State. Saturday, October 22, 1870. About 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: The Delight of Self-Sacrifice. ""Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."" Matthew, xx., 28. Beecher: ""The household is the only place on earth where, regularly, and by the force of nature, men live self-sacrificing and self-renouncing lives. You talk to be of heroism; and what is heroism but a spark from the household, taken and carried out and made into a flame at large in life? What a mother does every day of her life nobody celebrates... but she is a heroine."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: The Universal Heart of God. ""For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called."" Isaiah, liv.5. Beecher preaches of the trend now (1874) toward individual judgment and individual rights, and a view of God as merciful, not vengeful, a God glorious in the heaven and on earth. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1872. 14.7 x 22.5 cm. Subject: Do the Scriptures Forbid Women to Preach? ""Let your women keep silence in the churches;�. It is a shame for women to speak in the church."" I. Cor. XIV., 34, 35. Beecher's answer:""No, unless she has something to say."" Paper booklet, handwritten note on cover: ""Please read and lend out."" Good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Ideal Christianity. This sermon is the essence of Beecher, because he preaches on the positive aspects of living like a Christian, instead of ""thou shall not�"" The idea of Christian manhood. Self-control, vice temperance, ""which in our land has become not exactly temperance, but abstinence."" Love is the crowning virtue. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Christian Joyfulness. 'Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer."" Romans XII., 12. Beecher: ""there is no man so fit to live a religious life as he whose soul has derived freedom from his God."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject:Charles Sumner. ""And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors at at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."" Isaiah I., 26. Beecher preaches right after the deaths of Millard Fillmore and Charles Sumner. Fillmore he had not much use for, but Sumner was an honorable man. Not a democrat, rather an autocrat, but dedicated to the rights of man, in a time when so many northerners gave up their voice for the rights of the slaves in their love of Mammon. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject:The Primacy of Love. ""For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God."" 1 Cor. I., 18. Beecher preaches about all the unrest and distrust in the churches of the world, about our sending missionaries abroad when we quarrel at home, then reminds his listeners to ""Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Unjust Judgments. ""Judge not, that ye be not judged."" Matthew, vii., I. Uses example of men, large and small, making money from railroads. ""I do not say that bad men are not bad, because they are made so by a large number of bad men behind them-- they are bad; but this I do say: think ye that they upon whom the tower of Siloam fell were sinners above all those who dwelt in Jerusalem? Nay."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Soul Power. ""Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirity of God calleth Jesus accursed; and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost."" 1 Cor. XII, 3. Beecher: ""I preach Jesus to you. I preach his living presence to those who want a Leader. I preach his love and sympathy to those who have not the love and sympathy of man. I preach him as the One, above all, who stoops to every creature on the globe."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.