The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-28
Reecher-Tilton.

much magni1ed by sensational MINDS
scandal which should be made the sutJec' OF
investigation by court OF law, where 'es''.
mony would have its limits, and where :" i ha'
is pertinent to Justice could be brought o;t
by force of law. The observation-disclosures
must be ex.parte and unsatisfactory. u
would be, therefore, better for all Il the trla'
Of the cause was before judge in presence
OF jury legally selected for the occasion.
We say this for the good of the parties,
and for the qualification OF those who take a
deep interest in The matter, which we DO
moi. Go as it may it should have no very
great effect on religion.
The fact is, the characters that figure 10
this scandal end little sympathy In the hearts
Of the southern people. BEEcHaR Is man
Of genius, but his education has been faulty
l, is striking fact that actors like him AZ the
North were pretty much all arrsyed against
the South upon Me moral question, ana yet
nearly all of them have been proved to ne
wanting, more or less, in those true primer
niles Of virtue and that keen sense OF pro-
priety which is the cornerstone Of domestic
peace. That BEEcugG should have seiectea
the enthusiastic and crszy TILToN for bis
bosom friend, and should have formed such
my stcrious relationship to Mrs. TILToN, are
enough to prove the very great want OF that
irreproachable integrity Of character ana de-
pertinent which should belong to every
minister of the Gospel. We must conclude
that a minister to whom ladies write what
are call GLOVE letters" could not be IRE
proacbabe in his conduct. The letters-lf
they are authentic produced by Triton as
the letters Of BEkcnER to Mrs. T1LToN were
such as no minister rigidly circumSpect in
his department could have felt required to
write There is something wrong IN the
sentiments and conduct of the man, and
whether it include positive tranSgression or
mere embarrassments from indiscretioD, ii
shows that Mr.. BEEcnER is not proper
minister of the Gospel.
TILToS is a poor dreamer, and very
ingenious writer. II is.bad for brother
BEEcuER to have such intimate relations with
man so weak, and whose life is so veXed
by bad morality and wild views Of religion.
Mrs. TILroN is rbapsodical person, whose
ideas run in the line of the impracticable aud
transcendental that must ever lead 10 folly
and grief.
The people OF Plymouth church had be-
oQf Nth o1p FIJI hr
BEEcnEE which amounted almost to idolatry.
Man worship is very bad, aud always leads
to social trouble. The holy scriptures warn
lis against it, and no less should we be
guarded against it on purely practical and
phllosophic principles. Mans character
is never finished till lie is dead. If you pin
your faith to him like as not day may teach
you that you have been deluded. and that
the being you put faith in is the very oppo-
site of what you considered him to be. Ply
mouth church had in some sort an idcl.
Guilty or not guilty, he must unquestionably
sooner or later appear to that church as but
man at last--a man in heart and head, and
subject to mans infrmties and short
comiDgs.
We mean to say nothing about~Mr. Bee
CHEERS guilt or innocence. But there is
enough in the disgusting details Of this Bee
CuER-TlLToN scandal to show that he is alter
all but a poor man; that he has been educated
badly; that he has his infrmities that are very
marked, and that among them is an ire
prcssible selfconceit, and department Of
such worldly and vain nature that the adj
miration of the man takes more the form of
worldly esteem than Of high appreciation for
the virtues of minister, and therefore
clicits that kind of court and compliment
that no minister should desire, and which of
itself is an impeachment Of ministerial in
tegrity. We feel no sentiment but that Of
regret over the whole matter, and look upon
it as one growing out of vanity and foly-a
vanity and folly that involves not only the
minister, buta great many others.