Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-13
Death OF Lyman Bssoh.r, ID. u.

On Saturday, at . p. m, Rev. DR.. Lyman
Bcccher died in Brooklyn, at the age Of eighty
seven years His death was announced in the
following touchlng words by his son, at Ply
mouth Church;
After life of eighty-seven years, my dear
and venerable father entered, last night at
O'Clock, into his rest. He has lived far beyond
the average life Of man, and lived the whole OF
his life as simply yirtuous, as nobly Christian,
as herolCally active as any man, think, OF
whom we have had any account IN history.
For a year and half his mind has been
greatly impaired, and at times entirely obscur-
cd. As men, prepared for a voyage, pack up
their things, and being detained, dwell In un-
furnished apartments, desolatc-so he sat, his
rnrest and nOblest faculties sealed up. II was,
therefore, contrast all tho brighter and sweet
| or when those faculties, unused for so long q
time, opened again In the transccndent glory
Of the heavenly state His future life Is In
heaven; his earthly life Ia In the churches.
About two years ago, recovering from sick
mess, he called to those about him to read him
that passage. After reading numberless ones
| for he could not indicate which II was-aftcr
! long tryings by one and another, they fell, In
Gods good providence, upon this;
81 am now ready to be offered, and the time
OF my departure Is at hand. I have fought q
good fight; ! have finished my course; / have
kept the faith; hcnceforth there Is laid up for
me crown OF righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous judge, shall give me at that day
And then they went on TO read, "and not ia
me only when he interposed, in his cner'
getlc way; "I have nothing to do with the resi-
TINT IL mlnc-that IL my testmony-write II
downfall Ia my testimonyp'
That was his last substantial testimony; and
| think he was as worthy to take Il as tho one
who first uttered It..
DR.. Beechcr was born at New Haven, October
l2, 1775, graduated OF Yale College In 1877, ant
studied theology under the direction Of Presi
dent Dwight.
In December, 1898, he was ordained pastor o
a church at East Hampton, L. l., upon a salarl
Of 5000 per annum. In 1910, he removed L
the care Of the first church at Lltchfeld, Conn
Here he remained about sixteen years, dis
tingulshed for his remarkable character as
preacher and a man, and forwarding all tn
great religious undertakings and Institutions o
the time
In 1924, Dr. Bccchcr went to Boston and wa
settled In the Hanover Street church. Hero hi
ministry partook of a controversial character
as he battlcd bravely against Crtarianism
Soon after his settlement in Boston, the Inter
ests, religious and educational, Of tho West be
came important.
Various institutions were established, an
DIR. Beecher was invited to take charge Of Ian
Seminary. This he did in 1882 and prcache
for ten years at Cincinnati. Aftcr leaving tina
place, he made his residence with his children
and for a few years past has lived in Brooklyn
+ DR.. BcoChcr was twice married, and had thin
teen children. Ofthcsc, Miss Catherine BecchCl
Or. Edward Beecher, Mrs. Harriet BeCchc
Stowe, Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr, Rcvs. George
Charles, Thomas, William and James BeCChC
, arc all known in certain spheres Of public use
fitness.
The funeral services will he held on Wcdnei
day, at . o'clocl; p. M; in Plymouth church
when II Ia expected Rev. DIR. Bacon, of Ne'
Haven, will deliver n sermon upon the life an
services Of deceased. The remains will he cal
ricd to New Haven and inferred, by the expires
wish of the deceased, at the side of the gray
Of the Rev. DIR. Taylor.