Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-01-11

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Henry Ward BeecheF.
A lady Of Mr.. Beecher's congregation,
Aug usta Moore. has just published a col
lection of memorable sayings from his dis
courses, with some remarks about the
man. We take from it the following:
Although Mr.. Beecher himself seldom
appears to be in much haste, there is al
ways an air of being in a hurry about his
clothes and his hair. They manifest in
tentions OF going forward, whether he
goes or remains standing still. His neck
is so short that he never ventures stand
ing up collar. This, probably, is in con-
sideration for his ears.
One very remarkable singularty in his
face is the utter incongruity between it's
front and it's side views. Upon beng
told that he resembled Henry Ward Bee
cher, relative of that clergyman replied,
laughingly, Il know that l am SAID to be
| like him; but 'tis such resemblance as a
sheep bears TO u lion.' Now the, fact ia,
were that hum BILE minded relative of the
famed lion great deal more like a sheep
than he considers himself To be, he might
sf.N bear striking RESEMBLANCE to his cousin;
for though when he turns full towards
you, in the heat of Discourse, Mr.. Beecher
frequently does present the appearance of
a lion, II is next to impossible for q per-
son of an imaginative turn of mind to
view his pr.ySle withaut being strongly re-
fminded Or ovfue fHceB, seen ana perhaps
loved in the days and the years gone
by. -
When not in brown study Mr.. Bee
cher's manners are the most free and ge-
niml that can be imagined; but every y-ar'
seems to render him more and more a5-
stracted. People are sometimes hurt and
offended by his indifference and forgetful-
ness Of them, when he ls utterly uncon-
scious of all outward things, intent upon
his next sermon OF lecture; for he makes
his sermons IN the streets, in stores, IN
lumber yards, on ferry-boats, or wherever
he may chance to be. And IL is plain to
be seen, that man in The midst Of sermon
making cannot be very thoughtful in his
manners to those who chance TO pass or to
pause beside him. .....-.....
He is not a greater man, not more
learned man, not a better man, than many
other ministers who never can keep people
awake. But he IS more alive. Why; there
is intense life in All that, in desk or pulpit.
he does or says. What wonder that he
who is 80 vivid there should sometimes
sog and shoulder when the excitement of
his work is over. ..'...
Mr.. Beecher is a sound and vigorous
man, physically; but he cannot last always
he, AS well as others, must die; and
where is the material that shall live after
: him that shall show to the future world
that man once lived aud died? He is
now forty-six years old, and not yet are
. prepared the witnesses which shall speak
for him after he has gone hence. Full
measure, pressed down, running over. has
; his life ever given; but will he b. of their
number whose dying is but an endless
multiplying of their life? His sermons,
matchless as they are, are seldom fully
written out; and no mortal hand but bis
own can properly retouch them Hitherto
, he has not, except in one or Two Instances
given to the world proof of what he is
= In his pulpit--on his own platform-he If
seen and known-known TO such as have
listened to him often---for no man car
Judge of Henry Ward Beecher from one
or two sermons. No crystal was ever SO
! many sided as he; all sides SO bright and
pure; but abroad, where he gees to lecture
! they neither see nor near nlm'
: Henry Ward Beecher came of goodly
, ; stock: Welch blood. with its poetry ant
= music, flows in his veins. He is indeed
I poet; though it is not known that ever II
his life he made one line to rhyme will
! another But get him before fine paint
ing, and see the poetic frenzy that comes
> nightly upon him there. -s, f.s
: He is not much gifted with prudence il
u the use of money; and is SO generou
towarde those that have need of his aid
. that, as gentleman of his congregation
y remarked, when there was talk in regart
= to raising his salary: Three thousand dol
> lars a year is, as far as mis- own interest !
= y concerDed. just as good as ten thousand
= ). for he has nothing now when the end 9
y the year comes: and he would have n
). more then. h'-1 'aali - "'
l. Aw-UMv hrudders I" said a WagQis