Preaching and Paganism
by Albert Parker Fitch
Preaching and Paganism by Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, D.D. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1920, 229 pp.) [Also published in London] Page 93 bears a rubber stamp reading, "With the compliments of Yale University Press."
Dr. Fitch (1877-1944), No. 6144, was Professor of the History of Religion in Amherst College. The eight chapters in this book comprise "The Forty-Sixth Series of the Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching in Yale University." The lecture series was inaugurated by Henry Ward Beecher (the eighth of Rev. Lyman Beecher's 13 children) in 1871. Phillips Brooks, rector of Trinity Church in Boston, delivered the lectures in 1877, in what has been described as the "most influential of his profession." And two years before Albert Fitch had the lectureship, the speaker was Henry Sloane Coffin, who later became president of Union Theological Seminary.