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Show DR. GOSHEN DELIVERS EULOGY ON BEECHER "Henry Ward Beecher wae the greatest preacher of the nlneteeath century and the most versatile man that America has evsr produced. "Abraham Lincoln wae the emancipator of enslaved bodies; Henry Ward Beecher the emancipator of enslaved Ideas." The abova ssrerpts are from the lecture lec-ture of Rev. ttmer I. Ooehen yesterday morning- in the Congregational ohurch. Dr. Ossein told of the Ufa and work of Henry Ward Beecher. theoloatan, author and ftatesmen, who probably was the great eat pulpit orator ef his day. The year 111 merhi the centennial of Beecher'i birthday Attributing the groeteat contribution to the cause of liberty end union that was evsr made to mankind In one generation to IJncoln end Beecher. Dr. Ooehen declared de-clared t lust the two boye bora only four yeere apart In the early part of the nineteenth nine-teenth century proved to be the storm center of the moot terrible civil war that the world has ever seen. |