Beecher, Charles

Congregationalist; b. at Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 7, 1815; graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, 1834; and at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, O., 1837; was Presbyterian pastor at Fort Wayne, Ind., 1844-50; Congregational pastor at Newark, O., 1851-54; and at George town, Ma ., 1857-81; stated supply of Presbyterian church at Wysox, Penn., 1885. He believes that " the resurrection of The Christ, both head and members, is a true and proper Return to primeval glory in the celestial fatherland, forfeited, but redeemed by the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." He is the author of The Incarnation, New York, 1849; Review of the Spiritual Manifestations, 1853; David and his Throne, 1855; Redeemer and Redeemed, Boston, 1864; Spiritual Manifestations, 1879; The Eden Tableau, 1880. He was joint editor with John Zundel of the music of the Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes, New York, 1855; and editor of the Autobiography, etc., of his father, Lyman Beecher, 1865, 2 vols.