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Title: Sixty years with Plymouth Church

Author: Stephen M. Griswold

Release Date: January 18, 2008 [EBook #24356]

Language: English

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SIXTY YEARS WITH
PLYMOUTH CHURCH

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[Illustration: STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD]

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SIXTY YEARS

WITH

PLYMOUTH CHURCH

BY

STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD

New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh

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Copyright, 1907, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

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DEDICATED
To my New England Mother, who long
since entered into rest.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

I. Coming to New York 15

II. Early Plymouth 22

III. A Plymouth Usher 30

IV. Plymouth Services 45

V. Plymouth Members 59

VI. Buying a Slave Girl 70

VII. Mr. Beecher in England 81

VIII. The Beecher Trial 90

IX. The Church Tested 101

X. Church Thought and Life 115

XI. The Church Staff 129

XII. The Fort Sumter Expedition 142

XIII. Quaker City Excursion 153

XIV. Personalia 167

XV. Future Plymouth 182

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