Presbyterian and Congregational minister in New England, preached a sermon in 1835 entitled A Plea for the West. Believed that a vast new empire was opening in the American wilderness and that Christians should seize the opportunity and shape the religious and political destiny of the nation by preaching, distributing Bibles, planting churches, establishing schools and reforming American moral.
[tags]BlogRodent, church-history, ChurchRodent, history, Lyman-Beecher[/tags]The daughter of Lyman Beecher. She was deeply impressed with Theodore Weld's Slavery As It Is, and as a result wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. In it she struck at the national conscience in the hope that a cleansing of the nation's soul would avert a divine scourging of the body politic.
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