Theodore Tilton Stressed Over the Tilton vs. Beecher Case The Battle of Life Sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Sunday Evening, Jan. 9th, 1881 Plymouth Church Brooklyn Heights, NY Lesson : Eph. vi: 10-20 “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” — Eph . vi : II - 18. This is the representation of a literal state of facts, although it is thrown into a dramatic form. There has been a line of division running through the human family from the very beginning to this day. Right and wrong have been in conflict from the very first developments of human existence. The conflict has not died out, and is not likely to die out for ages. Where the two sides come together there is a wide belt of uncertain and varying elements, yet the two extreme...
Stories from Brooklyn's historical Plymouth Church and Henry Ward Beecher, America's most famous Abolitionist Preacher during the Civil War era.