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Quote: Today Plymouth Church of the Pilgrams looks elegant and sedate. Outside it consists of two, Victorian Era, red-brick buildings joined by a windowed arcade that passes behind a lovely garden courtyard. Inside the sanctuary has the pure white walls and simple architecture that typifies traditional early American churches. But in 1847, it was the pulpit of the famed orator Henry Ward Beecher. He drew crowds of 2,500 every Sunday with opinionated sermons that opposed slavery, and favoured temperance and woman's suffrage. At the center of the tree-shaded courtyard between the church and the school buildings there is a statue of Rev. Beecher holding the mock slave auction with which he raised northern consciouness. He also raised funds... Read More
From journal Brooklyn Heights