The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-12-19

but then they nave put money III lneir
purse"
So long as Henry Ward Bcecher con-
fined himself 10 the legitimate sphere Of
his clerical duties he was scarcely heard
of out of his own State. He possesses
little theological learning, or learning of
any kind, in comparison with divines Of
his own sect, with whose very names the
public are unacquainted. He was never
remarkable fer profoundness or solidity.
When officiating in Indianapolis, a small
western capital city, but behind none of
the larger cities in mental cultivation and
sobriety of judgement, Beecher never Gre
atca any particular sensation. 1t was on
ly when the abolition hobby presented it.
self that he was able to ride into notori-
ETY.. He has the honor of having con-
verified the pulpit into a political stump,
where, instead of Gospel humility and
charity, those "works of the flesh, wrath,
hatred, envy, variance, strife" are stirred
up, and where, instead of the rich fruits
of theological research and deep contem-
plation, the audience is treated to start
ling political paradoxcs and glittering
philanthropic generalities, interspersed
with the jests, anecdotes, and other clap
trap of the hastings. If Beecher has ey-
er produced a sermon, theological work,
or purely literary production, which will
live century, we have certainly not
heard of it;and even his political preach
ing is not TO be compared in vigor and
cloquence with the stump speeches Of
many of the republican leaders. II is
only bis grotesque attempt TO serve God
and the devil at the Same time that gives
him his great celebrity. He has long
since ceased TO be Gospel preacher, but
he has not yet become even great stump
speaker.
On tho late Thanksgiving day in New
York, when one would have thought that
all personal and party bitterness might
have been forgotten by the most worldly
or vindictive member Of the congregation,
the preacher HIMSELF the man who pro-
fesses to be called of God To lead the peo-
, pie in the ways of love, forgiveness, and
: humility, ascends the pulpit, and, instead
/ Of the incense Of thanksgiving, brandish-
| es the torch of incendiarisin; and instead
: of the olive branch of peace, yields the
, sword of sectional hatred. He could not
! leave out even on Thanksgiving day,
his ferocious worship of the god Sambo
and he wound up his fanatical TRADE by
f expressing the hope that, if there is to
be slavery reaction, he might be in that
Q land "Where there is no more sin and
7 sorrow, where the wicked cease from
: troubling, and tho weary are at rest" @
: prayer to which all good Christians and
9 patriots will say amen with emphasis
In recent anti-slavery lecture in Boston
{ he said:
D "The question now is, will the Soutl
Q secede? Ny answer is, 1 don't believe
e they will, and don't care if they do"
OF course not! Civil and servile war
e multitudes of poor white men and wo
, men in his own section thrown out o.
employment, and periShing for the want
f of daily bread; tens of thousands Of
households in mourning, and the land run.
ming red with blood; commerce, credit,
peace, Union perishing-what cares hc,so
long as through sensation sermons and
sensation lectures, he pockets his 10000
year?
, Yet this man processes to be minis.
, ter of God, and to be painting for the
blessed eompanionship of saints and an
} gels; this man whose mercenary selfish
ness glares evidently through the thin veil
of his affected philanthropy, and who, in
his famous correspondence with Rev. Joel
, Parker, in which he wrote letters and
signed Parker's name TO them, which let
tiers Parker had never written, signed, nor
even seen till he saw them in print, prov.
ed himself only worthy the companion.
ship of dishonored and degraged men.
Baltimore American.
HyY- On Sunday last n LARGO polict