The Freedom Ring

Darwin, A Sun of the 19th Century - Puck Magazine 1884 Deeply attuned to the progressive intellectual and social currents of the day, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher believed that religion must adapt to changing times. He extolled temperance, embraced women's suffrage, was a staunch abolitionist, and argued that Darwin's theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible.  The following is one of the famous "Evolution Sermons" preached by Beecher in 1885 at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. Henry Ward Beecher offering his “Evolution Sermons” across the science/religion divide to Herbert Spencer and other evolutionists - Puck Magazine 1885 From Henry Ward Beecher’s Evolution & Religion SINFULNESS OF MAN LESSON : Romans viii: 19–22. “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; because the creature itself...

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...