March 19, 1813 - May 1, 1873
Medical Missionary and Abolitionist to Africa
From South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Served in Zambia
Affiliation: Congregational
Death: In Zambia from malaria and internal bleeding while kneeling in prayer at his bedside
"I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity."
Henry Ward Beecher
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887
PASTOR AND ABOLITIONIST
From Litchfield, Connecticut
Served in Brooklyn, New York
Affiliation: Congregational
"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance."