Mr. Beecher on "Feet-Washing

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 11.

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Mr. Beecher on "Feet-Washing.

THE Examiner says, that Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon before Theodore Parker's congregation in Boston, took ground that "feet-washing is a most affecting ordinance of the church," which stands upon a command just as explicit, and just as literally enjoined as the "Lord's supper, or baptism," and which "bears an idea as fundamental to humanity and manhood as these other sacred ordinances do to spirituality, and faith, and futurity."