Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-11

ened piety and liberal tendencies had gained
Tor II the name of New School, was put into
execution: the Lane Theological and Litern-
ry Seminary wns founded. Its object being
TO prepare young men for the Gospel Minis
Try, such facilities for manual labor were of
Tered by It, as TO make it feasible for any
young man of industry, TO deiiay by hs own
cxertions, large part of the expenses of his
education. DIR. Beccher had long been re-
gnrded ms the only man competent to direct
an institution which, it wns f1ndIy hoped,
would demonstrate the practicnbilry of edu-
cnting mind and body at the same time, in
inslng new energy into the work of domestic
aud foreign missions, and revolutonize the
Presbyterian church. A large corps of learn
ed aud able professors was selected to aid
hlm. The doctor removed TO his new home
IN the immediate neighhorhood of Cincin-
natl, and remained there until 1850, and with
what success in his chief object we shall
hereafter see.
A certain eccentriciiy of manner and char
acter and sharpness of repartee, have given
rise 10 hundreds of amusing anecdotes re-
specling DIR. Bcechor. Some Of them paint
the man.
His lively sense of the comic element in
! everything, breaks ont on the most unlikely
occasions. One dark night us he was driv-
ing home with his wife aud Mrs. Stowe in
the cnrriuge, the whole party were upset over
bank about fifteen feet high. They had no
sooner eXtricated themselves from the wreck
than Mrs Beecher and Mrs. Stowe, who were
unhurt, returned thanks for their proyiden-
tial escape. "Spcak for yourselves" said
the Doctor who was feeling his bruises. 81
have got good many hard bumps, any
how"
! In many matters he is what Miss Olivia
would have called shihless." None of
the GOldsmitli family were noru so. No
! appeal to him for charity or n contribution
TO good cause, ever goes unrespOnded to,
MS long as lic has any money in his pockets. !
As the lnmily income is not unlimited, this !
generosity is sometimes productive of iucon- !
veuence. One day his wife had given him !
from the common purse twenty-five or thirty |
dollars in bills with particular instructions |
to buy coat Of which he stood in need. lie |
went down To the city to make the purchase,
but stopping on the way to n meeting in be- |
half of foreign missions the box was handed
round aud in went his little roll of bills. lie
forgot his coat III his anxiety for the Sand
wich Islanders.
Well do remember the first time heard
| him preach. IL was seventeen years ago.
From early childhood had been taught to
orator and had long promised myself the |
pleasure of listening TO him. My first Sun |
day morning in Cincinnati found me sitting |
with his congregation. The pastor was not |
ms punciual ns the flock. Several minutes |
had elapsed after the regular hour for begin
nIns The service, when one OF the doors open
ed, aud ] saw II hale looking old gentleman |
enter. As he pulled off his hat half dozen |
papers, covered with notes of sermons, flut-
tered down To the floor; the Int appeared to |
contain good many more. STOPPING down |
and picking them up deliberately, he came |
scuillmg down, along the aisle, with step so
quick and resolnte, as rather to alarm certain
preIndices had on the score of clerical So
leInnity. Had met him on parade ground,
| should have singled him out ns some geu-
cral in undress, spite of the decided stoop
contracted IN study; the iron-grey hair brush
ed stifly towards the back of the head; the |
keen, sagacious eyes, the firm, hard lines of |
the brown aud wrinkled visage, and the pas |
sion and power latent about the mouth, with |
IFS long and scorniul under-lip bespoke n |
character more likely to attack than to de-
iend, TO do than to suffer. Ills manner did |
not change my first impression. The cere-
monies preliminary to the sermon were dis
patched IN rather summary way. petit
llon III tile long prayer wns expressed so
piihily have never forgotten it.
forget now what reprehensible intrigue |
our rulers were busy in at the time, but the |
Doctor, nilcr praying for their adoption Of
various useful measures, alluded 10 their |
conduct in the following terms:-" And, q |
Lord! grant we may not despise Our rulers;
aud grant they may not act so, that wc cant |
help H." II mny lie doubted whether any |
English Bishop has ever uttered n similar
prayer for King and Parliament. To deliver |
his sermon, the preacher stood bolt upright, |
stiff as n musket. At first, he iwiiched off |
and replaced his spectacles dozen times in |
MS many minutes, with nervous motion, |
geslnring meanwhile with frequent pump |
handle strokes of his right arm; hut MS he |
went on, his unaffected language began to |
glow with animation, his simple style became
iignrativc and graphic, and flashes of irony
lighted up the dark groundwork of his Puri. !
ranical reasoning. Smiles and tears chused |
each other over the faces of many in the |
audience. His peroralion was one of great |
beauty and power. | have heard him hun !
dreds of times since, and lie has never ihiled |
TO justify his claim TO the title of the old |
man eloquent"
Harriet Beecher was horn at Liichfeld |
about the yenr 1912. After the removal of |
the family TO Boston, she enjoyed the hest
educational advantages of that cily With
the view of preparing herself for the business
of instruction, she acquired all the ordinary
accomplishments of ladies' and much of The |
learning usually reserved for the stronger
sex. AT an early age she began 10 ald her |
eldest sister, Calharine, in the management |
OF fionrishing female school, which had |
been buitby the latter. When their father |
went West, the sisters accompanied him, and |
opened n similar establishment at Cincinnati |
For several years after her removal to this
place, Harriet BeeclIer continued to teach in |
connection with her sister. She did so until |
her marriage with Rev. Calvin T.. Stowe,
Professor of Biblical Literature in the Sem
innry of which her father was President |
Ihls gentleman Mns nlrnndN one of the mnst