英语词汇church of the holy rifles的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Church of the Holy Rifles. Preacher and author Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87), brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a complex man whose interests ranged from involvement in an- tislavery movements to involvement with female members of his congregation. Beecher’s Bibles, for example, were Sharp re- peater rifles that the reverend, one of America’s most famous and controversial preachers, raised money for at his Brooklyn Heights church in New York and shipped to Bloody Kansas in crates labeled “Bibles.” Beecher encouraged his parishioners to join the “underground railroad” and even held mock slave auc- tions at Plymouth Congregational Church to illustrate the evils of slavery. The church, still in use, was called the “Church of the Holy Rifles” and is now a national shrine. Beecher once wrote that “the Sharp rifle was a truly moral agency . . . [had] more moral power . . . than a hundred Bibles.”

词汇	church of the holy rifles
词源	Church of the Holy Rifles. Preacher and author Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87), brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a complex man whose interests ranged from involvement in an- tislavery movements to involvement with female members of his congregation. Beecher’s Bibles, for example, were Sharp re- peater rifles that the reverend, one of America’s most famous and controversial preachers, raised money for at his Brooklyn Heights church in New York and shipped to Bloody Kansas in crates labeled “Bibles.” Beecher encouraged his parishioners to join the “underground railroad” and even held mock slave auc- tions at Plymouth Congregational Church to illustrate the evils of slavery. The church, still in use, was called the “Church of the Holy Rifles” and is now a national shrine. Beecher once wrote that “the Sharp rifle was a truly moral agency . . . [had] more moral power . . . than a hundred Bibles.”
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