. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... asioned pri-marily by the death of Alexander Hamilton, whohad been killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Thisdiscourse excited much attention, and gave itsauthor a wide reputation, which was amply sus-tained by his other discourses, and he soon becamerecognized as one of the foremost of Americandivines. In 1810 he became pastor of the Con-gregational church at Litchfield, Conn., retainingthis positi
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... asioned pri-marily by the death of Alexander Hamilton, whohad been killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Thisdiscourse excited much attention, and gave itsauthor a wide reputation, which was amply sus-tained by his other discourses, and he soon becamerecognized as one of the foremost of Americandivines. In 1810 he became pastor of the Con-gregational church at Litchfield, Conn., retainingthis position for sixteen years. During this periodhe delivered and published the Lectures on Intem-perance, which became famous, and he also bore anactive part in the Unitarian controversy whichwas then rife in New England. In 1826 he wascalled to the pastorate of the newly organizedHanover Street Congregational Church in Presbyterian denomination had set up theLane Theological Seminary near Cincinnati, O.,and Dr. Beecher was invited to the presidency ofthe new institution, which he accepted in held this position for twenty years, duringten of which he was also pastor of a Presbyterian.
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