The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-30

long extended the pastoral crook, and the
bereaved family, in which he had been a
loving husband and affectionate father de-
serve me fullest sympathy. A wife and
several children aIeleft to mourn the ire
parable loss OF Henry Ward Beecher.-Cin-
cinnan Enquirer. r4
Take him for all in all his equal cannot be
found either in Amercs or Europe. The
magnetic throb of his public life is felt be-
yound the Rocky Mountains. and the brave
words he utters from Sabbath to. Sabbath
echo and re- echo from the lakes 10 the Gulf.
About this whole matter ne prefers to be
silent, and perhaps the story win die all the
sooner II let severely alone. The public az
lection for the Brooklyn preacher. which
makes the continent ring with his praise, as
well as the general cause of religion, which
weakens when one of its strongest support
ers is thus despatched with mud, demand
that this whole matter come to an end. that
1t rehabilitate its grave, and that the head
stone on which the council engraved its YER
dict Of acquittal be set up again.-New York
Herald.
We have often thought of him, as we have
no doubt he has often thought ms, a blind
and unsafe guide of the public mind. But
we have always recognized in him an earn
estness and manl'ness of nature as thor
oughly fitted to command the respect of all
1
passionate devotion of those who think
with him the same things concerning
the service of God or of the state. And
as the spectacle of a brave man beset by
vagrant and NANCY ours in the dark, or
drenched in passing through the public
streets by malicious drudges empyting YES
sells of dishonor from an upper window is
not, TO our thinking, spectacle conducive
to the public veal. we simply averted our
face from the scandal and passed on. 1t is
to the credit of Mr.. Beecher that so far as ap-
| pears he has never condescended, then or
since, to enter into any warfare with his
disreputable assailants. Dis alter visum
| The divines took another view of the story.
The World.
| Mr.. Tilton has much to say Of the reti-
cence he has hitherto observed We shall be
greatly surprised if he does not soon regret
that he did not observe it longer. 1t is not
for us yet to judge the action of one who
claims to have been vitality wronged, but we
can hardly conceive any suffering more in.
tolerable than that which the eloquent and
indiscreet editor of the Golden Age has pre-
pared for himself by this unhappy manifesto
The well-nigh fatal mistakes of two or three
years ago were beginning to be forgotten
He now comes forth-stung by what seem.
the insufficient provocation of Technical
, Irregularities in the Congregational confer
ence and unfTiendlY criticisms in certain
newspapers-to challenge to mortal due
the most eminent preacher in the world,
man revered for his genius and his gooC
works as far as christianity extends. I
would be a misfortune to all of us if tn,
J Just and righteous fame ofthe great preache
t should receive the slightest stain from th
assaults; and it would be base ingratitud
for this people to think any evil of MIN be
. fore be has been heard, or without stronge
proof than has yet been offered.-New Yorl
Tribune.