---
title: 'How?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1869-12-02
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Denominational Literature'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
- 'Church History, Autobiography, and Biography'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 27'
- 'Matthew 5'
- 'Jude 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1869-how
---

# How?

Sketch of The Independent (founded 1848), its Congregational founders/editors (Bacon, Storrs, Thompson), Henry Ward Beecher’s later editorship, and its abolitionist, ecumenical editorial stance.

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