In 1837 Mr. Beecher was connected with an anti-slavery paper in Cincinnati, and while in Indianapolis contributed to an agricultural pub lication the papers afterwards issued as Fruit, Flowers, and Farming. On coming to Brooklyn he began. in the Independent, the series known as the "Star Papers," so called from his signa ture (*), and published in two volumes (New York, 1855-58) ; was the editor of The Inde pendent, 1861-63, and the editor of the Christian Union, 1870-81. He contributed frequently to the New York Ledger; one series of essays, called "Thoughts As They Occur." being republished as Eyes and Ears (Boston, 1864). His sermons, reported regularly after 1859, form the numer ous volumes entitled Plymouth Pulpit. His first hook, Lectures to Young Men (discourses de livered at Indianapolis), was published in 1850. Among other works are Industry and Idleness; Sermons on Freedom. and War; The Plymouth. Collection of Hymns and Tunes; Speeches on the American Rebellion (London, 1864) ; Nor /rood, a novel (1868) ; Yale Lectures on Preach ing, three series, delivered at New Haven on the Lyman Beecher foundation (1872-74. 3 vols.) ; The Life of Christ (Vol. I. 187], Vols. 11. and
III., 1891) ; The Strike and its Lessons (ISIS) ; A Circuit of the Continent (1884) ; Doctrinal Beliefs and Unbeliefs, Evolution and Religion (1885). In 1868 Lyman Abbot published two volumes of selected ,Sermons, which were revised by their author, and these will be found to repre sent his pulpit work at its best. The phono graphically reported Prayers from Plymouth Pul pit (1867), should also be read, as Mr. Beecher was very felicitous in his public prayers. Among numerous compilations from his sermons are Life Thoughts (2 vols., 1859) ; Morning and Rvening Devotional Exercises, edited by Lyman Abbot (1870) ; and Comforting Thoughts (1884). For his biography consult Samuel Scoville (New York, 1SSS), and T. J. Ellinwood. his private stenographer for thirty years, to whom we owe the reports of Mr. Beecher's sermons and prayers and speeches), Autobiographical Relni»iscc»ces of Henry Ward Beecher (New York, 1898). Mr. Beecher married, 1337, Eunice White Bullard, born West Sutton, :Mass., August 26. 1812. and author of From Dawn to Daylight (1859), etc., who died in Stamford, Conn., March 8, 1897.