A Sermon, Occasioned by the Lamented Death of Mrs. Frances M. Sands, of New-Shoreham

A 1806 funeral sermon by Lyman Beecher urging believers to set their affections on heavenly things, not the fleeting pleasures of earth, contrasting transience with eternal joy.

Lyman Beecher was a prominent American Presbyterian minister, revivalist leader, and moral reformer who played a key role in the Second Great Awakening and helped found influential institutions including the American Temperance Society and the Lane Theological Seminary. He was widely known for his powerful preaching, prolific writings on theology and social issues, and for being the patriarch of a notable family including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.

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