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...Brimstone Corner" because of the gunpowder that was stored in its basement during the War of 1812. The fiery preaching that echoed there helped keep the nickname alive; William Lloyd Garrison gave his first public address against slavery at Park Street; Moody and Sankey led revivals there; Henry Ward Beecher preached there and his brother Edward was its pastor...
...Charles Wesley, who turned out the words of some 7,000. Hymns were an important means of spreading the Methodist doctrine of salvation for all, as opposed to the dour Puritan teaching of predestination. Wesley's most successful effort: Jesu, lover of my soul, of which Henry Ward Beecher said: "I would rather have written that hymn than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat upon the earth." Brother John Wesley, a busy hymn writer himself, issued some precepts to choirs which, thinks Jefferson, might well be applied to modern congregations...
Theatre Guild Television (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC Television). J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley, with Leo G. Carroll, Janet Beecher and most of the original Broadway cast...
When Augustin Daly [and Joseph Howard] dramatized the novel (Worrell Sisters' New York Theater, Nov. 11, 1867), he expanded Beecher's . . . character into a major part for Miss Jennie Worrell, the youngest of the three famed theatrical sisters...
Trainload of Tears. Uncle Tom's Cabin, one best-seller which did speak to its day, began originally as a magazine serial. A prospective book publisher, reading it then, became alarmed at its length, and warned Harriet Beecher Stowe that he could not afford to publish a two-volume work. She offered to end it then & there. The magazine polled its readers, who insisted that it continue. One of the first readers was Congressman Philip Greeley. Reading it on the train to Washington, he realized that his tears were attracting the attention of the other passengers. At last...