Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830-1907)

Biography (Wikipedia)

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Leonard Woolsey Bacon is buried at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Leonard Woolsey Bacon is buried at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Congregational Church-Music; With 150 Psalms and Hymns (1854)

An Historical Discourse, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut (1860)

Suggestions Concerning the Ritual of a Puritan Church (1863)

False Definitions of Faith, and the True Definition (1869)

Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe, Late Superior of the Barefooted Carmelites of Parise, and Preacher of the Conferences of Notre Dame (1869)

The Family and the Church (1870)

A Sermon Concerning Theatres and Theatre-Going, Preached Sunday Evening, Jan. 22, 1871, at the Congregational Church, Baltimore (1871)

An Inside View of the Vatican Council (1871)

Church Papers: Sundry Essays on Subjects Relating to the Church and Christian Society (1877)

A Life Worth Living: Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome (1879)

A Crime Against Society (1880)

God’s Wonderful Work in France (1880)

Three Christmas Sermons, Sunday, December 26, 1881, By Sons of Leonard Bacon, Who Finished His Course, December 24 (1882)

The Sabbath Question (1882)

Andover and Creed-Subscription (1882)

Polygamy in New England (1882)

Divorce Reform (1883)

Deutsche Geistliche Lieder: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to Their Original Melodies, With an English Version (1883)

Prayer and Miracle in Relation to Natural Law (1884)

The Church-Book: Hymns and Tunes For the Uses of Christian Worship (1884)

Lessons From the Riot in Cincinnati (1884)

The Double Function of Music in the Church (1885)

Of Uncertainty and Partial Knowledge (1885)

Of the Petition of Certain Greeks (1885)

The Evening and the Morning: A Summer Evening Meditation in the Woodland Church, Philadelphia (1885)

God’s Voice in the Cool of the Day: A Summer Evening Meditation; in the Woodland Church, Philadelphia (1885)

Isaac’s Meditation at Eventide: A Summer Evening Meditation, in the Woodland Church, Philadelphia (1885)

William Lloyd Garrison (1886)

John Brown (1886)

The New Method of Church Discipline (1886)

The Defeat of Party Despotism by the Re-Enfranchisement of the Individual Citizen: An Argument For the Restoration of Majority Elections, Presented to the Massachusetts Reform Club, Boston, October 2, 1886 (1886)

How May the Ministry Increase Its Efficiency and Usefulness? (1887)

Bearing the Sword as God’s Minister: A Sermon to Citizen-Soldiers Preached in the Independent Presbyterian Church, Savannah, March 20th, 1887 (1887)

Our Little Eirenicon (1891)

The Simplicity That Is In Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia (1892)

Two Sides to a Saint (1894-1895)

How the Rev. Dr. Stone Bettered His Situation: An Examination of the Assurance of Salvation, and the Certainty of Belief, To Which We Are Affectionately Invited By His Holiness the Pope (1895)

The Real Prisoner of Chillon: A Curious Episode in Ecclesiastical History (1895)

William Lloyd Garrison (1895)

Concerning the Use of Fagots at Geneva (1895)

The American Church, and the Primitive Church (1895)

Five Theories of the Church (1895)

The Restoration of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1895)

Irenics and Polemics With Sundry Essays in Church History (1895)

A History of American Christianity (1897)

The Services of Leonard Bacon to African Colonization (1900)

The Divine Caution Against Puritan Over-Zeal For Church Purity: Sermon From the Parable of the Tares of the Field Preached to a Conference of Neighbor Churches at Lisbon, Conn., Wednesday, June 27, 1900, and Published at the Request of Some Who Heard It (1900)

Young People’s Societies (1900)

Anti-Slavery Before Garrison (1903)

The Congregationalists (1904)

Four Lost Legacies of the Early New England Civil Polity (1906)


Translation by Leonard W. Bacon.

This 2-part article appeared in the December 1894 and January 1895 issues of Christian Literature.

This 2-part article appeared in the December 1894 and January 1895 issues of Christian Literature.

This 2-part article appeared in the February and March 1895 issues of Christian Literature.

This 2-part article appeared in the February and March 1895 issues of Christian Literature.

This 2-part article appeared in the May and June 1895 issues of Christian Literature.

This 2-part article appeared in the May and June 1895 issues of Christian Literature.