The Freedom Ring

The Sermon of the Beatitudes Rev. Henry Ward Beecher , America's most famous man throughout the 1800's and the brother to  Harriet Beecher Stowe   the author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin ," gives a sermon on perfecting your life through love. Beecher popularized the Gospel of Love in America, which took hold of mainstream attention during and after the Civil War. SUNDAY MORNING,  August 29, 1875  Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, NY Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

"Love, The Fulfilling of the Law" Preached by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 1869, Brooklyn, NY. “But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” —Matt., xxii., 34-40. In this brief word Christ has drawn away the veil from the heart of God, and let us see its very central secret. It is love. And since the days of Christ, the divine Helmsman has been steering the ship of human affairs right toward this light-house of the universe—Love; All that was recorded in the past or foreseen in the future pivoted...

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Speaking on The Strength of the Family Institution, adapted from "The Original Plymouth Pulpit" Brooklyn, NY ca. 1868 “Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." -LUKE XIV., 12-14. The Loving Household Beecher Family Portrait - The Beecher Family, ca. 1859, photographed by Mathew Brady.  The household is founded upon love; and with all its imperfections it is still the best institution which society has ever had, or which it has now. Though its foundations are the natural affections; though it is very possible for father and mother to manifest love full of self-denial;...

The Reward of Loving The following passage is adapted from a sermon given in 1871 in Brooklyn, NY, called "The Reward of Loving." Henry Ward Beecher was the most famous preacher in America and throughout Europe at this point in time. Adapted and Edited by  Matthew Hernandez, Independent Journalist History is never done depicting those men who could live in deprivation- who could live hungry, thirsty, and needy. Men who could live persecuted and outcast. Men who were greater than the age in which they lived. We need such men now. Men strong enough to make necessary sacrifices now, even though that effort may not deliver benefits for a decade. In this sacrifice and fortitude, we have raised our conception of manhood upon the very possibility of patient struggle, and finding a positive frame of mind in the midst of suffering.  We do not bring up our children to the idea that a truly happy life is a life in which they are not obliged to learn anything. What do you think of childr...