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Lyman Beecher, one of the most prominent temperance advocates, reinforced this message in a series of influential sermons that reached a broad audience when they were later published. The argument for and against drink was starkly and simply made.
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but he broke down, and the last ten years of his life were spent at the home of his son, Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn, New York, ... In 1806 he preached a widely circulated sermon on duelling, and about 1814 a series of six sermons on intemperance, which were reprinted frequently and greatly aided temperance reform.
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It was from this pulpit that Lyman Beecher preached his sermons and led his revivals. In 1830 the church caught fire, and it was found that a merchant who rented a room in the church basement stored jugs of liquor in it an embarrassment to the leading temperance preacher of the day.
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BEECHER, Lyman, clergyman, born in New Ha-yen, Connecticut, 2 October 1775; died in Brooklyn, New York, 10 January 1863. His ancestor in the fifth ascent immigrated to New England, and settled at New Haven in 1638. His father, ... "Plea for the West," " Six Sermons on Temperance," "Sermons on Various Occasions," (1842),
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A Brief History of Social Reform, The Temperance Movement and Prohibition in the United States ... A study of Prohibition and the Prohibition Party should include and examination of 19th century social reform called the "temperance movement". One very excellent contemporary treatise which ... Reverend Lyman Beecher...
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Since the Washingtonian movement is so intimately linked to the larger temperance movement, it may be ... It was not until 1825 that Lyman Beecher preached his famous Six Sermons (3), in which he defined intemperance not merely as drunkenness but as the "daily use of ardent spirits." In 1826, in Boston, Beecher and Justin...
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Lyman Beecher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian minister, temperance movement Founder (American Temperance Society) Co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many o...
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Development of the temperance movement ... Present status of temperance movement ... Reasons for a temperance movement exist to a greater or less degree in all the countries of Europe, although the kind and amount of alcoholic drinks consumed vary greatly in the different lands.
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1. The temperance movement was an attempt to eliminate the evils of alcohol. Mostly the same women involved in the women's rights movement . Led by the American Christian Temperance Union they sought to save the American family by trying to get alcohol declared illegal.
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