SIXTY YEARS WITH
PLYMOUTH CHURCH
Sixty Years
WITH
Plymouth Church
BY
STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD
New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
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
DEDICATED
To my New England Mother, who long
since entered into rest.
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
ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
Stephen M. Griswold Title
Henry Ward Beecher 15
Lyman Abbott 105
Newell Dwight Hillis 133
Beecher Statue, City Hall, Brooklyn 153
Interior of Plymouth Church ...