The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-28

9, On, shall the end be wrath and woe,
Inc knell OF Freedoms overthrow
ACountry riven?
1t will not be,
We trust, Oh God! Thy gracious Power
TO aid us in our darkest hour.
This be our PRAYER: .'Oh Father, save
A peoples Freedom from its grave
All praise to theev'
Henry Ward Beecher at Home.
On the evening of the 18th inst, Rev.
Mr.. Beecher met his Congregation and
friends at his Church in Brooklyn. The
building was crowded, and the demonstra-
tons of welcome most enthusiastic. A
brief address was made to him by Mr..
Bell, and below is what Mr.. Beecher said
to his people as reported by the New
York Herald:
Eveniif it had been expected could not
make speech to-night-for there are ma
ny occasions in which the only expression
one can give is that of silence. It is very
nearly six months since stood here, and
can truly say that there has not been
day, might almost say not an hour, in
which have not received accessions to the
pleasure Of foreign travel, and various ex-
perience by backward running thoughts,
for have carried you with me, have been
borne up everywhere by those recollec-
tons and by that affection which never
dies. know not how it might have been
in years, for time wears away at last the
very stones; but certainly, in so short a
time as six months, not only have lost no
quickening Of affection, but have gained
and though 1 have had uninterrupted
prosperity-scarcely a clouded day--on the
shore; although in England, Switzerland,
France, Northern Italy, Germany and
Belgium, where it has pleased God to car
~ my feet-in all these places, though I
have had prosperity day by day and night
by night, have not stood in the city nor
on the mountain top, nor in any gallery of
pictures, nor in the loveliest landscape that
l was not homesick. Not for one single
moment have I thought backward without
the old yearning and long to be back again;
and l say the TRUTH lie not-I love this
place and this people, and this work be-
yond all other things under the sun. APP
plause.]
shall not feel that am entirely at home
until am privileged again to break to you
the bread Of life; for, although love you
individually and in families collectively,
and as great community here it is in my
special relations to you as minister of the
truth of Jesus Christ that 1 feel that I live
to come again. To be permitted to preach
here is the highest joy that anticipate on
earth. l have boon called, in the provi-
dence Of God, to labor outside of the accus-
toned field Of church labor, and I have &C.
casion to ask your thanks, mingled with
mine to God, that have been preserved
in all the arduous labors to which / have
been called; but feel that this was really
foreign, being required by the exigency Of
our country. To preach the Gospel for the
conversion of men and for the editication
of Christ's children-that is, after all, my
W. RI yy-hi oh I Inf1in fn1 mud TO
which I give myself again. And come
back among you to be your elder brother
and instructor in Christ Jesus, AID in the
simplicity of the Gospel and the work of
the Gospel, which for eighteen hundred
years and more has been administered in
the world by so many thousand faithful
pastors in that work, desire still to find
my honor as find my constant pleasure.
Pray for me, then, dear Christian brethren
and friends, all; not so much that may
have strength for outward work, as that l
may not be seduced from the work of the
ministry-that I may love nothing better
than.the work of Christian minister. And
SO 1 bid you!all good greeting. thank you
for your sympathy; for your kindness to
out your uttering, l know have accompa-
MED me, for your kind and glad reception
OF me tonight. NY first experience, of
foreign travel was in old England. We c9n
all adopt the words, I think of Cowper
land none so much as those who have been
there),
England, with all thy faults, love thee STILL"
Nothing was more charming to me on
leaving that arid ocean which some insane
persons are pleased to praise nothing
struck me so much as the green fields, the
green trees, the exquisite laws and planta-
tons Of England. I wandered up and
down through the midland counties, cross
ing from east to west, as far as we had the
leisure and opportunity, with pleasure
that knew no abatement and that grew
with the hours. From thence I went into
France by way of Havre, Rouen and Paris,
seeing, of course, the country and looking
at the people; for was denied any other
privilege Of intercourse than that-study-
ing what could be studied by a superficial
glance-glad to see Paris, gladder to leave
it. TLaugter.l ] traversed the beautiful
and vine-clad country between Paris and
Strasburg, and Lucerne, that sits like
Jewel in the bosom of that loveliest of val
leys in Switzerland, and then that glorious
three weeks of experience in those ordain-
ed mountains on which God has laid His
hands, and they are pure and white foever
more. Three such weeks, memorable
weeks, in Switzerland. The best wish that
can give to you for physical and worldly
things is, may you live to go to Switzer-
land, Wnefe SOOu Americans Snull CO.
Then out of Switzerland, where nature is
so transcendantly beautiful, and man so
wretched; for, of all wretched creatures,
think saw none more so than the Swiss;
for, although there are parts of Switzerland
where men are men, there are valleys and
regions through which the traveller is called
to pass, where human life seems to me to lie
Imprisonment and a drudgery; where dis
ease devastates the understanding; where
toll makes people prematurely old; where
children are born hundred years old, but
not altogether in the scriptural meaning OF
the term-[laughter]- where one IS sag 10
see a maiden, because close behind mel,
closer than her own shadow, is that decreplt
womanhood that is dishonored and looks
so wretched. From Switzerland, SO glorious
in physical things, and, in my experience,
SO sad in human things, passed over into
reiuvinating Italy.
I was happier the moment was on on ihe
further side of the St. Blanc Pass. There
is a glorious future for Italy. They are
a splendid peopleathsy have have ang grand rand
stock. There is stamina thefe, aha lhey
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