Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-04-10
Henry Ward Beeeher On Wall Street And
RfcheS-and Jim Fisk.

Recently Henry Ward Beecher lee
tured at Boston. Tie following is por-
ton of the lecture. There is q moral in
it:
have buried four generations Of men
from Wall street in twenty-five yeara.
Wall street is dunghill Of mushrooms.
There is vast growth Of men in every
single year, and every year they are
trampled down in hosts l know but
one or two men in that period who have
been able to make permanent gains and
hold their gains. And they didn't do it
by speculation they added other means
of accumulation, which were the founda-
tion of their stability, and | believe that
all the men there are trying to be rich
without paying for what they get-they
are rushing on to destruction. Others
may look upon those great, marvellous
and sudden changes that have taken
place in New York with ridicule. l feel
in looking upon them as solemn as q
judgment-day. ! have for years been
urging the young men in my church not
to envy the riches of men that came not
by honest means. l have again and again
prophesied that the day should come that
would see them overwhelmed or ruined.
thought it could not come SO soon.
Where now are the men ensconced
behind inexpugnable walls Scattered,
shorn, odious. their households like Niobe
weeping and they disgraced, and Paral-
yzed and cast utterly out Of society ;
the men that were destroying the integ-
rity of the young, they are as Sodom and
Gomorrah. And | say to the yonng
men that bad been partly blessed from
their integrity. Look upon these men
and zee how surely iniquitous gain brings
down ruin and disgrace upon their heads
And that supreme mountebank Of for
tune-the astounding event If this age
that a man with some smartness in bust
ness, but absolutely without moral sense
and as absolutely devoid Of shame as the
desert of Sahara is of grass-that this
man, with one leap, should have vaulted
to the very summit of power in New
York and for seven or ten years should
have held the courts in his hands, and
the Legislature and the most consummate
invested interest of the land in his hands
and laughed at England and laug he'd
at New York, and matched himself against
the financial skill of the whole city, and
outw tilted the whole, and rode out to his
hour in glaring anG magnificent prosperi-
ty-shameless, vicious criminal, abomin-
able in his lusts and fragrant in his viola
ton of public decency-that this man
should have been the supremest there.
and yet in an instant, by the hand Of a
fellow -culprit, Gods providence struck
him to the ground And / am sorry
for him. cannot see a teiiJy being go
down-though he has been wicked ana
though he has wrought sorrow in every
way-I cannot see the ruin of man for
whom God gave his Son, and not feel
a paug in my heart. And yet say to
every young man who has looked upon
this glaring meteor and seen his course
of prosperity, and thought that perhaps
integrity was no: so necessary. MARX
the end of the wicked man and turn
back again to the ways of integrity. 1t
is right for you to be rich. and you may
be joyful therein. if you don't lose your
conscience or your power with God.
But rem mber in seeking your riches
never lose manhood, for the existence of
that is the only thing which will make
your riches blessing and permanent
and abiding influence with You"