The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-15


There was about Dr. Beecher great hid
mgs of power.'' He threw around him an
atmosphere which his brethren felt to be PEE
culiar. You are at an Anniversaryin Boston,
One hundred clergyinen of the first class are
on the platform. You know them, respect
them, and perhaps admire them. But when
Lyman Beecher enters you have a new sem
sation. There islnystery and majesty about
that plain, ruddy, nervons old man, which
begets awe and reverence. Have not all felt
this in his best days, and had a shading of it
on us, even to the close of his life We
have felt that like great sea or a great noun.
tain, Lyman Beecher had nights and depths
of greatness which we had never. exhausted
He was most ready and frank in commune
cation, but the depth, and force, and fertility.
of the stream, only led us to higher esti-
mate of the resources, of the hidden, exhaust
less fountain mean no disrespect to any
body when express the opinion that in mas
sire talent Lyman Beecher stood among his
brethren like Daniel Webster in the Senate,
alone. s qs-5 81. sar5s
/ have no space here to trace any proper.
delineation af DR.. Beecher. l owe to the
memory of his love- confidence, and steady
friendship, debt which l shall perhaps here
after endeayor to discharge. In what remains
of this communication desire to recall him
to his friends and to his ministerial brethren
in some of his marked peculiarites.. DR..
Beechers wit was perennial and it derived an
attraction from his blunt, quaint mode of ex-
preston. 1 close this article with few spec
imens, which [ heard from his own lips. I
could furnish great store of similar ones.
was dining with him in Cincinnati in
1888. His daughter coming in from ride
told how little dog had started from door
-h ! IL. j.
yard, around through the fence, came to her
horse, opened his mouth, and was-silent-
Don't you know the cause of that ?'' said
the Doctor. q No. said Catherine. why
it was case of uor hrsit .faueibus," said the
Doctor -l.. -....-..,..- .F5 T
A brother minister was making lame ar
gument in Presbytery. Bainerd," said the
Doctor, "Ihad rather be before that gun than
behind it.' 5,.
Another minister of the Presbytery, who,
by-the-by was a New England man, but
greatly alarmed for the orthodoxy of the
church, had habit of looking up, and swing
ing his head to and fro while he belabored
the New Sr.hool. In the midst of one of his
prosy speeches til. Doctor grew impatient
Brainerd," said he, :" did goa suer k7osc a
man l1lo looked to hedUen so much for light, and
got 50 little 2'' ---
a newspaper at 0berlin had said that other
seminaries only sent out great theological ba
bies. ." Better send out great babies than little
ones" he remarked.
Rev. Dr. Wilson wished us to try DR..
Beecher on common fame of heresy in the
West. DR.. Beecher replied that this common
fame was made bv Wilson himself. q One
aoolf'' said he, -'qciU holol on the mountains
IN so many tones you'd think there tcere dozer':
Rep. DIR. Brainerd.
WE have politics and trade; and the daily
dust of hie rises with the morning mist and
settles with the dew; but over all things serene,
and silent, aud starry. rises the heaven ofana
Hoifs soul--its hteraturs.