Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-02-26
Rev. Heury Ward Beecher.

This eloquent divine who is so well known to most Of
our readers since he has found wider field for his ge-
MUS in New York, to be talking Of everything,
at everything, and about everything His head is a
great sore-house where all OF things be
piled up for use when needed. The following is
tract from recent lecture:
Man must be measured, not by what he is capable
of doing, but by what he does; and those who would
plow society smooth will find that they easier pillow
the great earth 10 a common level. The word inhde
dssent-and there have been times when should
have considered Eonor 10 be called an lnhde There
has been no law of that has not been abused all
that could abuse iiand hence will not say that
the law Of graduation has been most abused There IS
no feeling in the heman mind that Is not right II cor
recy atIuned and guided. There IS nothing IN the hu-
man mind that is supeTluoas and there Is nothing
the earth that is wanting would rather be an ca
Gle than q musquito, but God never made musquo
without some good purpose. man may have one fac
ulty that necessary than the other-he bet
ter lose an arm than lobe of his lung; better
than eye, and better Tor most men (though not alp
to lose a leg than head.
81 No man can measure facuty-you may measure hay,
grain and Structures but how shall measure man,
if we do not Judge by the pursuits which he follows!
Pursuits of different rank, and those that are not su
eeny high may, if they have the talent soon re-rank
themselves In all professions, those who profess the
highest regard for the laws Of and truth, rank
much higher than those who Pander 10 the animal pas
sons. Though may hear Of the sancy and lnleg-
ry of the pulpit vet IL there necessary than
in your banks and your counting houses and when yon
find 10 the latter less honesty less principle than the
former you may bid farewell TO oil prosperity.
The lecturer examined at leno the different grades
Of society," ranking labor lowest and dividing labor INTO
three classes-the inventor who designs the mechanic
who constructs, and the tinker who repairs and keeps
in order and there is infinite variety in these dlv
sons-a thinkers alike, for the travelling tinker
who mends your tin pans ranks lower than the arsto
cratic tinker who has his shop and thinkers your watch
At first sight you must Judge by his appearance
and until you have admission his intellect and his
character may you change your first impression Fools
sometimes sphered in places Of honor, but they
find THAR level like unrpe figs. The good ship may sink
into the trough Of the sea- but she will rise agan-and
so a good man cast down is not destroyed-he will come
up again. Names convey entirely different meanings.
A washerwoman tub will always be washerwo-
man. but let her have three four tubs with as many
women TO superintend and she aundress-a butcher
serving ont meat pound by pound through village, and
he is plain butcher, but let him butcher for army
navy and he is a butcher no longer but Contractors
worthless wretch the crank of hurdy- gurdy and
YOU dismiss him with "copper" but let Barnu,n turn the
crank, and forthwith onehalf Of people dancing
like puppets in the hurdy gurdy The acquisition OF
wealth is always dishonorable, and debas-
ing unless takes for his maxim clutch what you
can, and retain what you clutch Men do always
write with the pen, bat some with the pillow. with
the ship, and with the rail and the engineers
scale-and may accumulate wealth by honorable
means, that may and others would
adopt Wealth does necessarily give its possesser
great power, if he has ability WELD it, but in
the hands of those that capable, lis power is i'm
mense"