Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-23

in city and in state let us love country,
loyalty, probity lei Us love the Church
of Christ but no. - the church of any
particular sect; let respect the letter,
but not as an extirguisher-the letter
kills, the spirit gives life. Loud ap-
plause Let us. then, repeat, start as
men Of heart. Your great poet, Long
fellow, whose acquaintance it was my
great privilege to make few days ago,
has written in one of his verses,-and the
force of which is but poorly rendered in
French-lines which have been my motto
through life -
| 8. Let US then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving. still pursuing,
Learn to,labor and to wait.
Now, | would speak of the direction to be
given to life and of the region it should
traverse. We have often heard of two
roads opening before man, each diverging
from the other. Humanity has hesitated
between the two for centuries. Shall
heaven or earth be chosen Shall man
/ give 10 his existence An impulse that will
separat.. him from tho world that bears
him aud tear il from All that the Creator
! has made its bases family affections, in
/ tere-t, sutfering-; or shall he cart away
all ideas ot loving heaven, and conoen-
trarr uPou earth his faith, his hope, HE
love n N, | say, hesithtes between the
two road, aud the most rash rush TO one
or the other Materialirt- say that heaven
is nothing. aud $50 but the earth. giving
thcmseiYes - th I dust which forms our
piapnt, iGd - that trgublOu. aud tieetiug
hour life Mystical minds and no one
ferpecf. earnest minds m0rs than ! DO j
ftler, mysflnti minds, set aside all earthly
duties aud ouipymeuf-, change life into
au aspiration rpWtfi heaven, lnstrtd ~
sffisip4 - mfflt titd heaVru IhHy seek
- -. 80 theif Hty infy bgtgFn iH hyt hAHis
s9~ ny sfI'fispea bas convinced me
thtf t.st Hsen ttese tWO fopds there s q
thitd ope 81 fof The earnest mgfal aud re-
itViGus progress nau can make. aud ttod.
don by men Dhp can tseoncils heaysn aud
safil. the prasrnt lite with future et
psrisnce. task 20 bs accomplished 10
those times as u was accomplished by
Christ lying on the eross ~ reconcile the
things of heaven 10 the things Of earth
I open III. Bible and ! read in it that God
made man out Of dust and placed him in
beauteons garden, which. by material
MD he was to care for and cultivate. Then
flF lou ttfbft nun tHt hHiHiHiA kLHbI III
feriur race which is intended to supply
slaves 10 man Man then, the work OF
God. was the king. the owner. the man
ager of the universe The part we have
to act now il unchanged. We have to
continue ia these ages the work of Adam
Instead of small part of Asia Minor,
though. we have a whole planet. God has
given u- steam and electricity. and dis
tance il annihilated. This globe, ! say. il
our Eden. and by our labors on it we gain
heaven and earth. Applause After the
fret man came family and society. Adam
was alone and God thought it not good
that he should be, for he knew what
Adam only felt be lacked. Let
there be light God said, and light
was made, and He beheld it and sid it
was good and He created stars, animals
and plants aud saw that all were very
good. Bnt when He made what He sd- |
Judged his m tst"rpiece, and the edihce
was crowned by man, He perceived his
work wa incomplete. 80 God made
Adam a com pauipn aud saved him from |
egoti-'n. Thus W.. the organization OF
the family perfected In modern society |
celibtcy exists for the sake Of God, but
this exception, if you make 1t rule, is
against God and against nature. Celibacy |
is cowardice if it does not glorify mar
riage. The!apostles have said marriage is
honorable, marriage is spotless before God |
and man. The great object in view is the |
of heaven and earth, and of
the present life with the future, and to |
secure union on earth. Union in the city, |
in the nation and in humanity was the |
thought of Jesus Christ, who first pro- |
which the prophets but dimly |
saw and the Jews never did see. The CEN
turies that will realize this great union of
nations ha. begun. The labor has COM
menced Steam and electricity remove
all obstacles. Agassiz says the American
continent was the first created; it will be
the last in the fulflment of the designs of
the Creator. A cosmopolitan land-cos-
in the intentions of its founders,
in the bloody struggle of its defenders
God has in store for you who people it the
of admirable results.
Northward are the Esquimsux south
ward is Africa. You summon from walled
China the unmoving people to dwell amid
the moving nation, the stationary to min
gle with the progressive, all impelled by
the breath of you. the great humanitarian
people. Great applause The foundation
If your people is the Bible, the Book that
speaks of God, the living word of Jesus
Christ In an admirable manifesto from
your President there shines through his
words the Christian faith-a belief in
Jesus is at the root of the nation. May
Jesus Christ protect your country and de-
,elop old Europe in prepariu :, amid strife,
unity and religious and material pros
,eri'y. And when l return / shall tell
Europe that | have found here liberty as
,ociated with Christianity, nd have been
among people who do not think that to
10 free they must be parted from God.
Great applause.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER.-Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, though possessed Of
many eccentricities, has never been 30
harply dealt with by the public as at
present, for his participation in the
Mcfarland marriage. There
5 hardly a second-rate paper in the coun-
ry that does not attack him az the willing
bettor of bigamy, hence AZ fit candidate
or some State Prison. Blu, Mr.. Beecher
an afford TO bear the calumnies OF his
nemies in this matter as he has often {
,orne them before, because the public I
rell know that they have their origin in
nalice which his zeal for the success of
hristian principles in the government has
xc;ted In no sense can he be blamed I
or his action in the marriage. even if it g
nay not turn out that he acted in strict
agal manner. It. was not his duty to .
efrr an answer to the request of dying
IAN until he could send to Indiana for the 4
roofs of the grounds upon which q ,
ivorce was granted to Mrs. Mcfarland,
nd then until he could submit them to q .
rihunal Of his own State He acted uuOn