The Most Joyous Day
A world without a Sabbath would be like… Continue reading The Most Joyous Day
Tag: #Henry Ward Beecher
A Dissenter’s Bishop
Christopher Newman Hall was born at Maidstone on 22 May 1816. Little is known about his childhood. His father was John Vine Hall, proprietor and printer of the Maidstone Journal, and the author of a popular evangelical work called The Sinner’s Friend. Christopher’s first university … Continue reading A Dissenter’s Bishop
Scandal of the Century
American Christianity suffered from clergy scandals long before the televangelist disgraces of the 1980s. The most popular pastor of his time, Henry Ward Beecher, created “the scandal of the century” in 1870, and to this day no one knows the … Continue reading Scandal of the Century
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