Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (1813-1856) was an American Universalist minister and editor, born in Boston. He held pastorates in Massachusetts, including the Second Universalist Society in Cambridge, and spent his final years in Philadelphia, where he died in 1856. From the late 1830s he edited the Universalist and Ladies' Repository, a Boston monthly combining denominational writing with literature addressed especially to women and advocating female education. A volume of his sermons, The Pastor's Bequest, appeared after his death, accompanied by a memoir written by his wife, Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon.

Selections from the sermons of Henry Bacon, editor of the Ladies' Repository and one of the denomination's most beloved pastors, published after his early death as his 'bequest' to the people he served. His widow's and colleagues' act of memorial publishing — a common Universalist genre this collection now documents several times over.

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