The New York herald., 1870-06-12
NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY JUNE H. ls7o-TRlPLE SHEET

thing bu. slence utter silence And stand upon the
This Is very fine, and Brooklyn church ia per.
haps very dark cave for Mr.. Beecher 10 Nanu In.
but the only authority for the facts as rue ~
him, 80 far as our reading g0es-and that Is not eA'
actly in accordance with his descripti0n-s III sn7
life OF Yamen:-
Aa he fen and fell g s rssSu Of
Like pebble IN Carisbrooke well.
We believe. however. that the Rejected Addresses
were not composed for delivery In the pulpit. we
will not go 80 far as to deny that some cave
what Mr. Beecher saws they did, but If in this he
not "teng us a lie," what shall we say 10 tne loi
lowngMan Is the chiei moaser .nS' M sne no sar,n s
u.s. this IS a 'c0mplex pr0posltlon ~ logic; anu In
fact II combines the two assertions nrSt tnat ilam
was bred by the earth and next that he s tne cnel
monster OF all monsters 80 generated. Announcer
logically complex proposition, whcn we nappeln W
remember put won Mr. sesI'n, man in his own
image" 1t Is true that they didn't KNOW every,
thing down In Judee"; but II Mr. Beecner intenas te
up he must be prepared for harder nght
with both the scientific and the religious WORLDS .nan
we should ourselves care, singenandeo, ,. " frnm
sentence Immediately preceding, Is lhdeeu .veIMi.
cular." and therefore cannot come into cohpar@son @
not deny that the Saurlans and their like may have
been created by God all tnat he asserts 10 tnat tne
'vcrmcular human race" Is the result OF spontane-
GUS ucnerarion and that man is a chiefer monster
than any other which Is known TO the Poytecnnlc
Institution or to Professor TyndaL THIS 'vermlcu-
lar' doctrine introduced by Mr. Beecher In connec-
ton with OF the many questions which II plcases
him to ask his hearers and II those on the page now
open before us TO be taken as specimen OF his
ordinary method we should say that as q compound
OF Obscurty and nasrlness the Brooklyn church Cat
echism must 60 long way ahead Of an otnes ecce
has heard that phrase before S0mewnere) 'OI not
afternoon, witness the contest OF innumeraoc worms
should say; but Mr. Beecher seems to have done so
frequently, and to have considerably enJoye9 u:
ow should you ee ne goes on @ 70 ySe Se
baby I'VE beg pardon OF Mr.. Beecher["H you
were to enter the room where your child was
lying and find upon It steathy cav, staloheu ~
at the portal OF life and stopping its very breath ~
There Is no time given US to realize the appalling
domestic picture; The inquiry Is instantly followed
upon your child vampire that had fastened into lts
flesh his bloodsucking bill and was last consuming
its vtaityYn We should feel, we believe, that tne
chiqreRra bon0ttagS in UdcttO, c0n,endeAs Secun-
das intenttOnes" was very much the same sort OF
phenomenon and had about as much to do Win 'the
rentleness of GOdr OF which Mr.. beecher tmagines
himself to be speaking. preacher who cOnceves 1t
to be within the limits OF reyereace-to say nothing
sublime radical' may. naturally consider u III
equally good taste to call God the arch thunderer
Other OF ee'by beings and and who can rub them out
easier than can rub out the colors
from the butterny's wing" 1t + not easy to bring
perhaps, il we were more en- rapport with the
author-whch at this moment we are not especially
some rational meaning 10 what he chooses to write
about the ''sensitlveneSs OF God" goods Sensl-
bilty is exceedingly acute. We are accustomed TO
connect neness and acuteness OF feeling with dell
cacy and subteness OF Organizaton and we are apt
to think that God Is being 50 vast that his lati.
tude is inniiy and his longitude IS eternity, he must
be comparatively insensltve-less sensitive tnan ai
men are. But ne Is more sensitive tnan men
can possibly be. Senstiveness Is pecu-
arty OF his nature" 1t Is perhaps possible that a
man not yet actually in iunatic asylum may %. DC
'apt to think" in the strain Of hablasphemy half.
rayng nonsense which Mr.. Beecher assumes as the
ordinary course OF religious thought. we cannot
answer for the results which such course, or q
| succession OF courses, OF the Brooklyn sermons
might bring about In intellect OF not very stable
equilibrium; and whether those results led TO de.
scriptiOn OF God as 'insensitive' or sensitive
would be q mere matter OF chance But Mr.. Lyman
Abbott and the ''perscnal friends" ought TO have
known better-even though 'he skill and fidelity OF
TJ. EIinwOOd,n the shorthand writer had been under
the necessity OF reproducing the spoken words lof
their use-han to give publication to this scandaoua
sentence. Mr.. Beecher, we are quite prepared to
allow, may never have heard OF the Aristotelian cat
to attach any meaning to the terms If lie had; but
| he must have heard, in some English or American
form, of the well-wOrn sch0olboy problem In which
we were required TO find the distance from West
minister Bridge to the First Of April; and there is moi
child who has ever laughed at the stupid and man
| lfest old Joke who would not see at once and
who would not shudder with a cniids reverence
without alteration associated II, In the passage
| which we have quoted, with God whose "iatituut
| Is nfnity and his longitude Is eternity,
For some time past the dead walls of London have
| been disfgured with the presentment OF hideous
negro head grinning a vacuous grin at the specta
tor through pair OF monstrous red lips. I'M
| offensive advertisement processes to represent
"Amerca as 1t Is" For companion picture, JUS
| as sensational In its way, and just as true as a re
presentation OF America as It isu IN IN the iignes M
| ers to Mr.. Lyman Abb0tts edition OF Mr.. Henry
| Ward Beecher's sermons.