Six Sermons on Intemperance

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Six Sermons on Intemperance is a series of influential early 19th-century temperance sermons by Lyman Beecher that helped spark and shape the American temperance movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
religious text
temperance literature
associatedWith American Protestant reform
Lyman Beecher
moral suasion strategy in temperance activism
author Lyman Beecher
circulation widely circulated in the United States
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre Christian literature
moral reform literature
sermon collection
hasPart Sermon I
Sermon I
surface form: Sermon II

Sermon I
surface form: Sermon III

Sermon I
surface form: Sermon IV

Sermon I
surface form: Sermon V

Sermon I
surface form: Sermon VI
historicalSignificance helped shape early temperance ideology in the United States
helped spark the American temperance movement
impact encouraged formation of temperance societies
increased public awareness of alcohol-related problems
influenced temperance movement
surface form: American temperance movement
intendedAudience American Protestantism
surface form: American Protestants

moral reformers
language English
literaryForm didactic prose
mainSubject Christian ethics
alcohol abuse
temperance
movement American temperance movement
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

Massachusetts
publicationCentury 19th century
publicationPeriod early 19th century
publisher T. R. Marvin
religiousDenomination Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism
religiousTradition Protestantism
setting early 19th-century United States
theme moral dangers of alcohol
reform of personal habits
reform of society
religious duty of abstinence
social consequences of intemperance
theologicalPerspective Calvinist
timePeriodDescribed early 19th-century American society

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