Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-14
He.ry W.,d Roocher on Hen.

Inc rev. henry Wht0 DeeVuer mas
lately preached q sermon on He'll, which
has been published, we notice, in many Of
the secular papers throughout the country,
and is creating considerable talk and
speculation. His views upon that subject
are SO different from the common or Or
thodox notion, that some are claiming him
as o Universalist, or as likely soon to be
one. The Rev. Mr.. Peters, pastor of the
Universalist Church in Hartford. Connec-
ticut, addressed, it is said, a large congre-
CATION recently upon the question as to
whether Mr.. Beecher is'not really a Uni
v~ersalist.
The reverend gentleman said that Mr..
Beecher both was, and was not, a Univer-
salist, and was standing in a very peculiar
position, enthusiastically connected with
the Congregationalist Church standing in
the front rank Of that denomination and
leading them on, they not knowing where,
and ~perchance' he not knowing whittier he
may go, God knowing what he was doing
with him, and for what BE was using him
as an instrument; that theologically and
alphabetically Mr.. Beecher was a Uni
yersalist.
Mr.. Peters then, quoted from the New
York Evangelist, Of 1852, which says:
"Beecher's words are like millions Of
drops Of rain falling upon the mountain
side and loosening the soil, the result Of
which by-and-by will be a tremendous
slide over into Universalism or Unitarian
ism" HHN '&Essis Es
Showing that Mr.. Beecher's determined
and persistent course for several years,
was not accidental, or pursued by him in
ignorance of its inevitable influence upon
the thousands Of his hearers.
Mr.. Beecher denies the doctrine OF a
material hell d! just what the Universalist
ministers have been preaching against
for sixty or seventy years.
Mr.. Beecher confessed that the doctrine.
of future punishment was wholly un-
known to the Old Testament writers, and
that nowhere in the Old Testament is
there any reference to such a doctrine Us
endless or future punishment. MIR. Bee
cher. in speaking of this doctrine Of
future punishment, says that a very re-
markable feature is, that this doctrine does
not appear in the Old Testament at all and
in the New Testament, we might almost
say. but just alluded to anywhere except
in the teaching Of the Savior.
Mr.. Beecher said, in 1857 : "The great
lever by which to raise and ave the world
is to preach the unbounded love and
mercy Of God"
MI. Beecher shrinks from conversing
on the doctrines of endless punishment ;
very seldom refers to it, as the article
clearly shows.
That was a popular error to believe
that the majority of the UniverSalists be-
lieve that when we die we 60 from this
world into a land Of eternal glory and
everlasting peace and happiness; while
the truth is, on the testimony, that they
believe in future discipline, and 80 imply
future punishment but that when the
object Of punishment IL accomplished the
punishment will cease, and that the sal
walton is not limited to this world.
Mr.. Peters then referred to CONVERSE
tions he had had with members Of Mr..
Beecher's Church, showing the compare
tive indifference with which he regarded
that portion Of their creed which refers
to endless punishment, and alluded to a
lecture delivered a few months ago by
Mr.. Beecher, in DR.. Chapin's Church, in
New York, the proceeds of which were
to assist in the establishment OF q Univer-
saliss College, the "Clinton Liberal Insti-
tute," and to remarks made by him that
" when men were almost animals, when
they were pressed down to the earth in
ignorance and selishness, and covered all
over with the darkness Of superstition,
then FIRE, and hell, and awful fears OF
damnation were appropriate for them ;
bat when they were stirred up and drlv-
en- toward the right, then God sent higher
influences to act upon them. "He gave
His son for their good, and that they
might BIZ drawn by love from the dark
ness of SIM" clearly stating that as long
as man was IN the low valley Of sensual
ism, covered over by superstition, igno-
rance and sin, these awful pictures of ev-
erlasting fire and of hell, may prevail to
drive them from their wickedness Blu
when men come up to a certain state OF
cultivation, and take in the light Of
knowledge, then the time has come when
you may preach Universalism.
He said that Mr.. Beecher was o religious
Columbus, who now and then goes out on
a great voyage of discoyery-goes out Of
the old into the new world of religious
thought. Like Columbus, he likes ex-
ceedingly to sail over tina forbidden sea Of
investigation; to touch the shores of the
new world of religious promise, look over
the fair landscape and beautiful prospect
that lies before him, and then return to
his brethren and people, and tell them all
about what he has found there in that
better land, and his people then open their
hearts and drink in what he tells them,
and applaud his originality.
He then remarked that there was a sense
in which it might be said that DR.. Tying,
of the New York Episcopal Church, Hat
field and Stockton, of the Methodist
Church, Magoon, of the Baptist, DR.. Bel
lows, of the Unitarian, DIR. Chaplin. of the
Universalist, and Beecher, of the Congre-
~gationalist, are linked together in the noble
work of breaking up the old sectarian
hates in this country, the great prejudiceS
which are emblematic of this country, are
working to demolish the middle wall OF
partition erected in the furious old times
between the churches; thus bringing the
people of the different churches into closer
sympathy on all the great main questions
Of religion and Christianity, whatever
whatever opinions may prevail upon minor
questions.
CONC ABROAD FOR NEws.-The cor
respondent Of the Carson Appeal, writing
from Virginia City, says:
For some time past your San Francisco
contemporaries have been teeming with
sensation yarns as to the vicious habits OF
young girls. In Virginia we are fully "up
in copy" and at least a dozen young girls
between twelve and fourteen years of age
have within the past three months become
common prostitutes-one especially--the
child OF q poor woman who does washing
on North b street, and but twelve years
of age, has fallen the prey Of a villain, and
as we were yesterday assured by q re-