Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-24

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clergymen. He was dismissed June II,
1863, at his own request, and the Church
voted him life annuity of $1,000. He
died at Carbondale, ILL.,, August 6, 1871,
at the advanced age of Sc years.
In 1924 he was elected o trustee of
Middlebury college and continued 80 I'M
til his death, having been member Is
years longer than any of his associates.
In 1910 he was elected president of the
college, but declined the Office. He re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Williams college in 1924, and of
Doctor of Laws from Middlebury college
in 1852. His earliest public 'tion was a
sermon, ocoasioned by the death of Rev
Oliver Hulburd. preached At Wayuesboro,
Georgia, November, 1914, aud prefxed
to posthumous collection of Mr.. Hull
burd's sermons. In 1925 he published
"Four Sermons on the Doctrine of the
Atonement,,' in duodecemo volume. He
also compiled the Church Psalaist," a
collection of hymns for public worship.
A large number of his sermonseh have been
published separate.
The early life of DR.. Beman gave prom
ise of a brilliant future which his man.
hood more than fulfilled. For nearly
sixty years he stood at his post, full OF
vigor of mind and strength of body, and
then retired to die in q Western home at
tended By the careful ILLUSTRATIONS of q
beloved daughter. He was master
mind, having a reputation as wide as the
limits of his country as a leader among
men. A quarter of a century ago dis
corning writer said of him, "If ambition
for political distinction had been his
ruling passion, he could not have failed
by his own commanding intellect, to have
risen to the highest honors, and that to
without the aid of those petty means and
miserable shifts that some little minds
resorted to 'to be the thing they are not. y
His remarkable prophesies as foreshadow.
ed in several of his annual Thanksgiving
sermons indicated full we'll the power he
would have exerted as a statesman in
public life. Some of his disoourses were
characterized as intensely political but he
always claimed the right of the pulpit tc
attack evil whether in Church or State
but it was only in Thanksgiving sermons
that be ventured upon political subjects.
AS pulpit orator he had few superiors,
calm, dignifed, earnest,-oftentime in.
tensely earnest, but never nervously i'm
passioned-always keeping control of him
self and his audience. He was not al
ways confined to manuscript; some of hi:
extempore discourses were his test. Hi
celebrated sermon on the French Revolu
ton, delivered before many audiences
was never committed to writing in any
form, but bore evidences of great thought
and was logically divided into divisions. Il
occupied two hours in it's delivery, and
never wearied, but enchanted the fixed at
tention of his audience throughout. He
was in truth one Of the theological and
intellectual giant OF his time.
He was to those familiar with him s
man of rare social qualities, although al
times peculiar He was misunderstood
by some, who tkought him naughty, cold
over bearing, tyranical; yet h. was kind
loving, bnt the most sensitive of men
touched to the very life "by a slight, and
pleased beyond measure by Kindness
His native goodness stood Transparent tt
those who knew him best, and all ad
mired his commanding abilities, uotwith
standing his oftimcs cold exterior.
We cannot better close this sketch than
by quoting the following extract from the
Troy Times in noticing the death of Mr.
Beman
For tho last half century, no man
outside OF the political world, has filled 6
larger space in the public eye than DIR
Beman. And this thought leads us to re
! mark that had DR.. Beman turned his at
tentiou TO politics, he would have become
"a distinguished as Daniel Web-ter. fol
he had all the elem ents OF n statesman
: He was graduated at Middlebury College
and after he was licensed to preach a
once took a high stand as pulpit orator
After preaching some years in Portlnnd
Maine, in consequence of the failure of hi
health he went south and settled in thu
State of Georgia. He soon bee me dis
tinguished throughout all that region al
a preacher and teacher After laborine
there some years, not liking the state o
society and especially the institution o
slavery, to which be was always opposed
he came North, and accepted call to tn,
First Presbyterian Church of Troy, anC
, for forty years occupied that pulpit with
such faithfulness, devotion and al iiity al
have rarely characterized any pulpit il
this country. He was leading man il
this community, and probably Troy owe
no man larger debt for his Influence il
moulding its character for enterprise
morality, love Of sound learning aud pure
religion. He was always leading mar
in the Prasbyt erian Church of the United
States, and looked up to for bis sound anc
: wise counsel. DIR. Beman had numerous
calls to pulpits in several of the larges
cities, and to the presidency of serera
colleges, at large salaries, but he prefer
red the field of labor which Providence
seemed to have appointed for him in thi
Guy. ne WAS LOT several years l. E6SlQ6D
i. of the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute o
Troy"
ONE OF THE SADDEsT TRAGEDIES OF
RECENT YEARs.-The death of Mrs. Val
landigham has awakened in the public
heart feeling of sympathy altogether
unselfsh and universal. Thousands who
never saw her and who merely knew Of
her az the loving and faithful wife of 6
noted man, were sensible of q personal
pain when they read the brief announce
T ment of her decease. Mrs. Vallandigham
received the sad tidings of her husbands
accident while standing beside the coffin
of brother. Although almost paralyzed
by the shock, the strong yearnings of he,
love lifted her above the effects of physi,
cal and mental prostratiop, consequent
upon the grievousness of her double sffiic.
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