, 1874-08-19

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IA momber Of Plymouth Church, woIa!hccd
her God md hor pnator At tho Same timo. Mr.
Dooofer uaa not thus embarrassed. Tilton had
established wife and children In homo that
Inns been pictured rs a worry bowor Of love,
poetry, song, ponce. and lnppinoBB. 1nto this
homo had boon born Children, botweon whom
and their mothor thu poet father divided hie
hopes, ambitions, md delights. To pay for thia
homo, ho devoted four months Of labor ovory
yoar lcoturirg. For fonr years ho loft home.
wifo children, and al], to 80 tho vFoary round,
to gathor dollars to mnko That home FREQ ono.
Upon hts return from ono Of thoac nidWfntor
travels, tho vito was troubled In limo she ro~
voaled that, long before, hor devotion to her
pastor aud his importantly had resulted In thoir
Joint sin ; and, having revealed this, first OBJ
tanning promise that no violonoo should bo
visited upon her docoivor, sho loft tho house,
subject to hor husband's recall. Trying to close
bis eyea to tho blight that had fallen upon oil ho
hold dear In 1ifo, this man doniod ncr guilt,
called hes bnok, md tried to make tho old homo
what It oncc had boom.
Whilo this struggle was going on while thia
mnn's heart was bleeding; while he was endcay-
osing by hard labor to edit two papers that ho
might DO better able to provide for his "fock,
Mr. Deecnor vas advising tlas vito to leave him,
and was 1aboring to have him dismissed from Ills
employment and loft without the meaua Of aup-.
port. When Triton Was informed by Ills em-
| ploYer that Deechcr had denounced him for ina-
st. n,
! leavo Plymouth Church. This Was tho dcoiara-
tion Of war. That night Doeoher felt TINT ho
had tho power Of giant. aud proceeded to t1so
| it. Tint night he persuaded Bowen to dismiss
Tilton from ali his employment. The triumph
vas short ono. Within tvcnty-four hours Of
Ti]ton'a dismissal, Deoehor waa himself on bis
knoos, debating messages OF apology aud
kindness. prayers for mercy and Forgiveness, to
tho man whom, two nights before ho had de-
noancod to Bowon az doraugod uladnau givou
ovor to frco-loveism.
| From that frst day Of January, 1871. to tho
| proseut umo, Theodore Tiltou has struggled
with alt manner Of violesitude has boon reduced
| to pecun,ary want and suffering; has permitted
himself to be treated like dog by Doeoher, by
Bowen, by tho Woodhulla, by evozy MN and
woman, By ovory Bohemian stipondiary Of Plyn-
outh Church and it's followers; and all this
humiliation to aaye tho name Of tho mother oi
his little girls. How has he been roqultcd7 The
woman who confessed eho loved hcr pastor 1t
1868 so intensely as to botsay hor husband, ever
while frantically protecting that human language
was too poor to express hor affoction.-tts won
| m, in 1874, when that husband wns forced to
dcath-atruggie with hia euomy, again botrnyet
him, md, under the shelter Of tho man sho hat
proclaimed to be her Beduoer, denounced ho
husband as D liar aud d {orger.
| This Ia tho record Of these two mon. The,
are both objects Of pity. 4hey arc both wrecked
Neither caa again I'LL the measure Of ereaitabl'
distinction be Las 1lled In the past. Deeoha
has Crushed TtltSn, but In his fall Tlton In
unyoilsd dsformity in BeeeheE which DoeoAer'
statement, even X true, does not disguise.
4 theory has been advanced by Mr. Deeehe
and his friends that it was Tilton's envy wlaiel
led him to destroy hfa own homo fn ordo
to drag Boechar down. This Ia ravolting ana
inconceivabla, hut has not Deoohcr confaaae
that he was instrumental in dopriving 1ilton Q
. his means Of support, after Tilton's wife la
confessed thatehe had boon soducod by Bcccher
Take them aa they stand before tho world tc
day,-Tilton hasiug suffered four yoars Of TN
, speakable agony to sparo his wifo'a roputntio1
and Beechor having striren during that timo t
drive Tilton to want.-and who can hesltnt
, where to p1ace tho laurel; who can doubt who1
tho triumph ia as between tho two who CO
! question which is tho noblor, Beeoner or Tlton
r The relationa we hare traced all romain tt
, same whether Mr.. Boccher was Mrs. Ti'ton'a ii
ducer or not for Tilton beloved him to bo. q
8 Was charged With it.