The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-18
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then. 10 Spnu tnp u lGtttI VI NiuN
sic the outcome of yorr inner lite-it
vouid he safe. for am now at home here
with my sister; and it is permitted to you
1sic1 and will be an exceeding refreshment
10 me, for your heart experiences are often
like bread from heaven to the hungry. Gou
has enriched your moral nature May not
others partake2
This is in Beecher's handwriting, but
without direction or signature, but the note
enclosed in pencil tells us the direction OF
it, asI the words, "Your note broke IKE
spring upon winter" tells also what note II
was in reply to, because that quotes the
words of Mrs. Tilton's "Spring has come
asking him to "share her joy" che being
''all right now. The inclosure is on snip
of paper, marked 80" (but which DO not
produce here, reserving 1t for presentation
before another tribunal ..,
Was there ever palmer case OF renewal
e .asia,aey, u say the least, than thisE
Mark, also, amid the prayers to God con-
tanned in the longer note Beechers sugges-
ton that Elizabeth can write him now with
safety" because he is living alone with his
sister,. e., his wife is away!
II this stood alone it would be all-sut-
ficient to prove that he speaks falsely who
says that Beecher never visited Mrs Tilton
except at her husbands request after the
settlement, and fill my purpose, but | do
not choose to leave it in its solitude as
single act. and therefore | reproduce from
my statement the letter from Mrs. Tilton
to Beecher, which bears date, May 3, 1917:
Mr.. Beecher: My future. either for Ii e
or death, would be happier could but feel
that you forgave me while you forget me.
In all the sad complications of the past
year, my endeavor was to entirely keep
from you all suffering to bear myself alone
having you forever ignorant OF it. My
weapons were love, a large untiring gener-
osity, and nest. hiding That | failed utter
~, we both know. But now | ask forgive
ness.
Perhaps T.lton extorted this letter, too.
from his wife,
The italics were those of the writer
will Btecher, in his first sermon after
his vacation, please explain what sort IF
spiritual "wcapon' ''nest-hiding" ia,
with which "a poor dear child ola woman
''keeps all suffering from her pastor so as
leave him forever ignorant of it," unless,
indeed, "nest hiding" is a carnal weapon.
for in TINT case no explanation is needed
There are indications in This note that per-
haps Bcccher did not keep his appointment,
and that may have been the reason for its
writing
Whether this note was answered, | do
not now produce d commentary evidence to
show, nor is it necessary upon the question
whether Bcecher renewed his intimacy with
her after tho settlement, because | produce
another note of January 20, 1872, indirect
ell. but enclosed in N envelope addressed
"Mrs. Elizabeth Tihon, Livingston street,
Brooklyn" bearing the post-mark Of the
same date. Ii is marked ~:
BEEcHES TO MRS. TILroH
20 JANUARY, 1872.
Now, may the Gol If Peace, that b ought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant make you
perfect in every good work to do his will
working in you that which is wel-peas'nq
in his sight through Jesus Christ
This is my prayer day and night This
world ceases to hold me as it did. live
in the thought and hope Of the coming i'm
morality, and seem to myself most of the
time to be standing on the edge of the other
life, wondering whether may not at any
hour hear the call, ''come up hither."
n shall be in New Haven, next week, to
begin my course of lectures to the theolo-
gcal classes, or preaching My wife takes
boat for Havana and Florida on Thursday.
called on Monday, but you were out.
hope you are growing stronger and hap
pier. May the dear Lord and Saviour
abide with you. Very truly your,
II. W. BErcHgR.
l again call attention to the mixturc o.
prayer and business in this note by the fol-
lowing words
"My wife takes boat for Havana and
Florida on Thursday. | called on Mon
day, but found you were out"
But this is not the only note which estab
fishes renewed intimacy. | produce anoth-
or note, undirected and unsigned but en-
closed in an envelope post-marked the
same day, directed, elizabeth Tilton, care
of Theodore Tilton, Esq, Brooklyn" Thii
is the only one addressed to his care, ant
its contents are such that husband nigh
read as coming from pastor to his parish
Toner, except tina: the husband was using
the intimacy of the pastor with his wife fol
that purpose of black mailing him. Blu
why leave it unsigned? 1t is here inserted
marked "Q":-
YEEcHER TO MRS. TILToN.
MAY 8, ~
My Dear Friend was glad to see yo,
at church, yesterday. 1t is always grea
comfort to me when you are, and a token g
Gods favor.
go, tonight, to Norwich, n. y, wher
my granddaughter, six years old, is dying
and her mother, my Hattie, awaiting he
own confinement. l seem to live amid;
funerals. The air is heavy much of tn
time with the odor of the grave.
| am again at work on the ".ife,' maxim
haste while the day lasts-''the night comet
when no man can work"
l pray for you, that God would dwell
you by that spirit of divine love by whic
we are cleansed from anger, impatiencS
and all self-asserton, and kept in the swee
ness of that peace which passes all under
standing. That it may please God to Ii
you up out of all trouble, and to keep yo
under the shadow of His wings, is my prayt
for you. BY His spirit animosity may
utterly slain and your better self may
clothed with the invincible spirit of 10,
which, springing from God and abiding
Him, will carry with it His victory.
And these letters written, too, by chri
tan minister to woman whom he no
characteriZes in his statement thus 81 a
in that kind of divided consciousness that
was in respect to Elizabeth, that she was
saint and chief of sinners" He knew all
her then he does now, unless indeed he do
know more now, and yet he wants "refres
ment' from her "true inwardness."
l need not proong this statement by Il
production of documents to show that t
intimacy between Beecher and Mrs, Tilt
did not cease after January l, 1871, VIII
he had soemnly settle the past inju
with the husband and promised me that
should cease, and when he now states it 4
cease, for all these letters are subseque
TO his settlement with Tito, and some
them moro than year after.
i call attention to the fact that ha
drawn no differences MS to the effect OF the
letters. Ihave only compared them, sho,
the relations of their several parts to tn
surroundings, except that do insist Il
they show a renewal Of intimacy with
family not under the supervision of etl
Tlton or myself, which is the point at ISIS
between Beecher and me in this regard.
have avoided stating in terms the effect
on my mind; bee use in my former sta
ment having given only the results of G.