Excerpt from Manual of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, L. I., 1864
Sabbath-school Room and Study, was attached to the rear of the Church, fronting upon Orange Street, in 1831. The Pastors who lab01ed 011 this ground were Rev. Joseph Sanford, from to 1829; Rev. Daniel L. Ca1roll, D. D, fiom 1829 to 1835; Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D. D., from 1837 to 1817, when the l'1esbyterian Society built their present house of worship upon Henry Street, and the property was sold to John T. Howard, Henry C. Bowen, Seth B. Hunt (all of the Church of the Pilgrims), and David Hale, of' the Tabernacle Church, new-york. Mr. Howard conducted the negotiations, and the other gentlemen furnished the money. The purchase was made in J 11110, twenty thousand dollars, and possession was given May 16th, 1847. This property was conveyed to the Plymouth Church, by the above named gentlemen, for the actual cost and intciest, on the first 01 J unc, 184-8.
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American preacher and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Reared in a Puritan atmosphere, he has graphically described the mystical experience which, coming to him in his early youth, changed his whole conception of theology and determined his choice of the ministry.
It was in the pulpit that Beecher was seen at his best. His mastery of the English tongue, his dramatic power, his instinctive art of impersonation, which had become a second nature, his vivid imagination, his breadth of intellectual view, his quaint humor alternating with genuine pathos, and above all his simple and singularly unaffected devotional nature, made him as a preacher without a peer in his own time and country.
He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
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