Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Beech, Rev. Henry Hudson.

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10/07/2022  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Beech, Rev. Henry Hudson.—The subject of this sketch is the pastor of the Baptist church inSheboygan Falls, Wis. He is a native of Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y., where he was born in 1843. He spent his childhood and youth in Eaton and Hamilton, N. Y., and when older, on a farm, in Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y. Having decided the question of his call to the work of the ministry, he began a course of study when yet under twenty years of age with that end in view. THe was grad- uated from Shurtleff College, Ill., in the class of 1866, and from Newton Theological Seminary, Newton Centre, Mass., in the class of 1869. In January, 1870, he was ordained by the Market Street Baptist church in Zanesville, O., where he began the ac- tive work of his ministry as the stated supply of that church. His first pastorate was with the Syca- more Street Baptist church (now Grand Avenue), Milwaukee. Leaving Milwaukee, he had two pas- torates in Minnesota,—at Owatonna and Lake City. Returning in 1877 to Wisconsin, he settled as the pastor of the Baptist church in Sheboygan Falls, his present field of labor. During the war he en- listed as a private in the 133d Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, in which he served 100 days. Mr. Beech is an earnest and faithful minister of the gospel and a good pastor. His preaching is pointed, vigorous, and searching. He abounds in evangelical fervor and earnestness. He has a clear conception of the distinctive doctrines of the church of which he is a minister. He has a hearty style of writing and speaking that arrests attention and wins favor. He is the popular and valuable secretary of the Wisconsin Baptist State Conven- tion, in whose work he takes a deep interest. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart