New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-15
FUNERAL OF DIR. LYMAN BEECIsER.

The funeral Of the Rev. DR.. Lyman Beecher was
held yesterday afternoon in Plymouth Church,
which was crowded in every part.
The family Of the deceased were nearly all pres
ent. It seemed strange thing TO zee the pastor Of
The church sitting in pew. There WAS very
large attendance Of clergymen Of various denomina-
tons
The cofin-pate bore merely the name Of the de-
ceased, with the date OF his birth and death.
The Rev. d.. Storr read various passages Of
Scripture including that appropriated by the departed
IN his last conscious moments:
re.dy % be oeeled srd ,he ;9e o. my depart
have kePt the f'h hs9csio,th there I, aid ny Tor
u risteousne which tie Lord, the righteous
Judge sAAl give ne at that day"
DIR. Stous offered prayer.
The Rev. DIR. Bacon Of New-lIaven preached the
funeral sermon, from the ieKt
80 han.s be 70 God which gVe,h The victory. through
Our Lord Js,os Clrist
He said that il wac no, in sorrow that they were
assembled. WHY mourn that he who had entered
on the eighth year beyond his four score, who had
outlved his activity his remembrance Of those dear
est, save AZ intervals, who bad watched through
long twilight deepening into darknese, had been
m .asei from the body Of this death Should we
mourn that when he had far survived himself his
lingering strength was at last cut off ard thrown
awayl Should we mourn that the Gssduity which
with unwegrving tenderness waited upon his aililC-
tion WAS now at last relieved No, let IA rather
give thanks that the mortal hid put on immortality
aud that remained for only 10 bury m the bosom
Of its kindred earth the feess clay from which the
freed soul hal gone forth into eudler- life. In such
death there was no anguish, no awful questioning
whether the departed was ready. What tears We
shed were Of love and homage, but not Of grief Tho
death that hld convened lis WAS only tina soul r
awakening from long and restless sleep TO its inn
mortality. lie wond leave tire words Of his text
10 make their own IMPRESSION, and rehear-e
the life and abOrs of tins servant ~ the
Lord, relying almost entirely upon bis own
memory, ~ be had not time to confer with others.
The name Of Beecher wits an old one ia New-llaven.
The house OF David Beechsr stood under the tree
which WAS remembered from 1851 aud when the
tree fell, block from II WAS taken for the support
Of the anvil Of the village blacksmith the father Of
Lyman Beecher. DIR. Bacon told the story OF his
birth, his dinIinuive rze the death Of bs mother
and the bequest OF him 20 Lot Benton and hi. wife
lie said that he remembered distinctly the tall
spare figure Of Lot Benton Ills conntensnce serene
and benevolent IN whore family the boy found care
kindness, restraint and catechsm In the house IN
visorang activity out Of doors little schooling in
Tie Winter, plenty OF lard work the farm IN the
Summer, daily prayer and reading of tho Bible, and
punotual and solemn attendance on the house of
| God every Sabbath. The life Of New. England
boy 20 or 80 years ago was very different from what
IL was now. There was no Sunday. School no chill
drens literature, no deluge OF newspapers. Thus
LYMAN Beecher grew 20 the sturdy and sinewy
strength OF his youth. lie told him that he
was determined in his inclination for public life by
ma hatred OF oxen, their movements were 10 slow
His own fathers house was within n bow. shot of
the College OF New. Haven. He began his course
there in the Autumn of 1898, beng then X years
old. Dr. Dwight had just come 10 the presidency
OF tho College. Though Beecbers scholarship was
not Of the highest order, HI measured by academic
standards yet he could not but have felt the quicken
% lif IN
ministry that he first became dseplv Interested in
religion, and II there he made bis first profession
Of faith. lie was most interested in those subjects
which DR.. Dwight personally taught. lie remained
a year after the course 10 study theology Il was
at u church in Naugatnck that he was examined
and be irst began 10 preach IN East Hampton. IL
was just the place for his development and
training. His people had retained print
tive simplicity, and Were Well instructed
IN theological matters. Among young men he
found just enough OF speculation and unbeef TO
arouse him and 10 render him highly argunentative
but never purely doctrinal Ills preaching of the
truhe Of the Goepel WAS all low with the ntens-
ity Of his iath, and is efficacy attesIed By sue
cessive royiyals. Ills preaching was never system
attic bat rather adapted 10 the immediate necessities
Of his congregation. Yet he told DIR. Bacon that
there he wrought out his method of evangelical
thinking In the course of ten years bis light began
10 DO from afar. or the four occasional ser
mona he published the second achieved great ce-
lebrity. The murder OF Alexander Hamilton, under
the form OF a duel, by Aaron Burr, called forth
storm Of Indignation from the people and the pulpit
aud did much to Danish fromtb world this barbar-
ism and elected it from the world, except from the
Southern States, where It could only be-
suppreesed with the greater barbarism which
bred and sustained it. Among these sermons
none was more prominent than that of
Lyman Beeeber. IL was "a practical appeal TO the
If0II9 ~, ~ YQl9 tQT 4 dge!tsI, Itaf aIiahg.