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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
--Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887)

P.1141 - §4 (103:9.6) When theology masters religion, religion dies; it becomes a doctrine instead of a life.


Henry Ward Beecher was born at Litchfield, Connecticut in 1813. A shy boy with a tendency to mumble, be became one of the great preachers of his time. He was a committed abolitionist, as was his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe. He called on his congregations to make special offerings so they could buy slaves and set them free.