Introduction

Biography

Beverly was the son of Hen­ry Fran­cis Car­ra­dine (1808–1854); grand­fa­ther of ac­tor John Car­ra­dine; and great-grand­fa­ther of ac­tors Da­vid Car­ra­dine, Keith Car­ra­dine and Ro­bert Car­ra­dine. He mar­ried twice: to Lau­ra G. Reed (1869) and Mo­des­ta Burke (1883).

Early in his ca­reer, he was pas­tor of a large Me­tho­dist con­gre­ga­tion in St. Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri. In 1893, he be­came a full time ev­an­gel­ist, and held ser­vic­es in ma­ny parts of the Unit­ed States.

He was forced to re­tire af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­dent in Se­at­tle, Wash­ing­ton, in 1918.

Works

• Best of All, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick & C. J. Fowl­er (Chris­tian Wit­ness Com­pa­ny, 1910)
• Beulah Land
• Church En­ter­tain­ments: Twen­ty Ob­jec­tions
• Gold­en Sheaves
• Heart Talks
• A Jour­ney to Pal­es­tine
• Pastoral Sketch­es
• Revival In­ci­dents