The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10
Another Christian Sermon by Henry
Ward Beecher.

HuRY WARDBszoHKRh has preached an
other sermon in regard to our treatment
of the South, from which we extract the,
following:
There never was time when more kind
ness and gentleness was needed and yet this
Is stigmatized by radical neu here as apostacy,
and playing into the hands of the Southt I
hold that this Is to be done by means of Presi-
dent johnson or through Southern Legisla-
tian virtues and Christian feeling toward our
brethren, who in the midst of profound suffer
ing, of which we know nothing, stripped and
bankrupt in property, with their laws paraayz
ed, and their State governments altered and
with their national spirit humbled, are called
upon to roll back the turbulent tide of all their
unjust feelings and prejudices, and that, too;
BY men whom they have hated Do you en-
pect it What, then, are we to doe hold
that In the first place, we are to maintain our
hold and confidence upon the National Gov
eminent; lift be possible for the President TO-
exercise extraordinary power in conferYing D.
graded, classified suffrage upon the colored
bear; we should bring up to him the generous.
heart of the North ; we should ask him to do
it as If at least he were friend and . brother;
otherwise am sure We shall ask in vain. And
first and second and third would say 10 this
Christian assembly, remember him in your
prayers remember him in your sympakhieai
While you have no responsibility It is easy for
You to criticise.; but If you stood between &C.
teen States on the one side and fifteen on the
other; if You were burdened BY all the ones
tons which arose-n you stood in his place,
you would find that You could not act 60 east.
" as you now advise him to act. Have conf
dence in him. believe him to be an honest
man. Generosity and trust now is wisdom
On the other hand, 1t Is our duty to cultivate,
not spirit OF compromise-but the Apostle
single sentence" Speaking the truth IN love. {"
And if you are going to speak the truth in lota.
the love must be felt; You have to have love
with the truth. There are warm days In the
scar, genial loving days which come and coax
Summer out Of the ground-days of warmth,
and then comes the result. When men once
begin to feel that you do love them, and that
they will let you say almost any thing in the
world and that which we need now in the
North, that which We have needed in large
measure in times past, is the spirit, the Chris.
tian spirit of pity, love and mercy for those
who have been in the wrong but who have
been more terribly punished than any people
upon earth. Let it not be said that the worst
men In the North are the best friends of the
South. With this Christian temper, speaking
for justice and demanding t. speaking in q
warm atmosphere of love, We shall see from
year to year that our labor has pfospered, and
by and BY it will be crowned with success; by
and BY I believe that this nation will be to ma
lions the light ofthe world, and that the Chi.
naman, the AsiAtic, the African, the South
American, standing together here upon COM
mon ground, 1t will be said "Ye are mem
bers one OF another. Ye be brethren"