Sixty years with Plymouth Church

The author, a long-serving usher, offers personal sketches and recollections covering more than half a century of life in a prominent urban congregation under Henry Ward Beecher. He describes worship services, membership, staff, social and political engagement, and vivid episodes such as fundraising to secure a slave girl's freedom, support for anti-slavery causes including sending rifles nicknamed Beecher Bibles, and the pastor's public trials and travels. Arranged as topical sketches rather than a formal history, the book mixes institutional memory, portraits of parishioners and clergy, accounts of civic excursions and wartime activities, and reflections on the church's character and future.