The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-15

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ian Union, delivered courses of lectures |
Jetore the theological seminary OF Yale col |
ege, written 1.-The Life of Christ" deliver
I'd each winter lyceum in all the North and |
West all these duties, with the care of q
treat church and its outlying schools and
chapels, and the miscellaneous business,
which falls upon clergyman more than
upon any other public man, have kept in
regard, and now, with the necessity of ex
planning actions and letters resulting from
complex influences apparent at the time, ]
find myself in n position where
| KNOW Ny INNOCENCE WITHOUT BEING ABLE
TO PROVE TT
with detailed explanations. am one upon
whom trouble works inwardly, making me
silent, but reverbcrating in the
chambers of my soul. and when at length l..
do speak it is pent up flood, and pours
without measure or moderation. inherit
q tendency to feeling that remains in me of
a positive hypochondria, in my father and
grandfather, and in certain moods of rcac-
ton the world becomes black and | see
very despairngly If were in such moods
to speak as feel should give false col0rs
and exaggerated proportions to everything.
This manifestation is In such contrast to
the hopefulness which experienced in or
binary times that none but those intimate
with me would suspect one so full
of overlooking spirit and eager gladsome-
ness to have within him Il source OF gloom
Some of my letters to Mr.. Moult0u reflect
this morbid feeling. lie understood it,
and at all times earnestly rcprovcd me
for INDUCING in it.
MIR. BEECnER PROCEEDS WITH HIS MARIA
With this preliminary review | proceed
with my narrative. Mr.. Tilton was first
known to me rs n reporter of my sermons.
He was then a youth, just from school,
and working on the New York Observer,
From this paper he passed to the Iadepen-
dent, and became great favorte with Mr..
Bowen. When, about 1861, Drs. Bacon,
Storrs and Thompson resigned their places,
| became editor of the independent, to
which had been from its start a contri-
butor. One of the inducements held out
to me was that Mr.. Tilton should be my
assistant and relieve me wholly from rou-
tine Office work. In this relation became
very much attached TO him. We used to
stroll together to print shops and dine Of
ten together. His mind was opening
freshly and with enthusiasm upon all ques-
tons. used to pour out my ideas of civil
affairs, public policy, religion and philan-
throphy. or this he has often spoken
with grateful appreciation, and mourned at
a later day over IFS cessation.
TiLTON ENCOURAGES BEECnER's VlsIrsTo HIS
HOME.
August was my vacation month, but my
family repaired to my farm in June and
| July aud remained there during September
and October, my labors combining me &c
the city. | took my meals in the families
of friends, and from year to year became
so familiar with their children and houses
that | went in and out daily almost as il
my own house. Mr.. TitOn often alluded
to this habit, and urged me to do the samC
by his houss. lie would often speak il
in cXtravagant terms of his wife's esteem
and affection for me. After began t.
visit his house he sought to make it at
tractive. He urged me to bring my pape
down there and use his study to do my
writing in, as it was not pleasant to writ,
at the office of the Indepondent. When
went to England in 1868, Mr.. Tilton tool
temporary charge of the Independent. On
my return | paved the way for him to talk
whole charge of it, my name remaining 70
year, and then he becoming the response
BILE editor.
THE FIRST RUPTURE.
Friendly relations continued until 1867
when the violent assaults made upon me il
the MdepeRdeht, on account of my Cleve
land letter, and the temporary discontinue
ton of the publication of my sermons il
that paper, broke off my connection wit
it. Although Mr. Tilton and | remaine
personally on good terms, yet there was
GOODNESS between us in all matters of pol
W. and Pas as s4sa as Gs lis REQUEST ei"
sat to Page some fifty times for portrait
1t was here that first met and talked wit
Moulton, whose wife was a member c
Plymouth church, though he was not
member, nor even regular attendan
During this whole period never receive
from Mr.. Tilton, or any member of h
family, the slightest hint that there VIZ
any dissatisfaction with my familiar rel
tions to his household. AS late, | thinl
as the winter of 1869, when upon an e.
4 tended lecturing tour, he said, Il wish yc
I would look in and see that Libby is NJ
! lonesome or does not want anything"
1 words to that effect Never by word
: sign did Mr.. Tllton complain of my visi
l to his family, until after he began to fe
; that the IndependeH would be taken fro
K him nor did he break out in violen
o until the eve of dspossession from DO
e papers--the Independent and the Brook,
l Union, owned by Mr.. Bowen. Duril
t. these years of intimacy in Mr.. Tlltol
q family, interested myself as a father
! elder brother. Children were boru, CHI
l dren died they learned to love me a
S frolic with me, as If / was one of the
II selves. / love them, and had for Mrs. I
ton true and honest regard.
MRS. TILToN's PURITY.
he She seemed to me an affectionate moth
e. devoted wife, looking up to her husba
t. as one far above the common race of mt
IN and turning to me with artless familiari
'k and with entire confidence, childlike in
ut ture, and | would as soon have misct
" ceived the confidence of the little girls
&c the unstudied affection which she show
I'D me. Delicate in health, with self-cheer
e. air, she was boundless III her sympathy
o. those in trouble, and labored beyond
lis strength for the poor. She had the cha
he one time of the married woman's class
al the Bethel Mission School, and they I
'ss fectly worshipcd her there.
IN | gave Mrs. Tilton copies of my boz
ed when published. | sometimes sent do
er from the farm flowers to be distribu
lis among dozen or more families, and Il
ret were occasionally shared bv her. The o
nd present of value eyer gave her was on
ne return from Europe in 1868, when
en tributed souvenirs of my journey to SC
nst fifty or more persons, and to her CAV
,us brooch of little intrinsic value. So
DIS, from supposing that my presence and
The huence was alternating Mrs. Tilton fl
'pe her family relations, thought, on the {
ak trary, that it Was giving her strength
to encouraging her to hold fast upon a /
ers apparently sliding into dangerous asso
eep tons, and liable to be immersed by VI
h a ampled selG-conceit. Regarded Mr.
e," as in very critical period of his life,
ew used to think it fortunate that he had 9
der home influences about him. During
lta- late years of oar friendship Mrs, ii
ort spoke very mournfully 10 me about
de- tendency of her husband to great laXii
ave doctrine in religion and morals. She u!
on me TO understand that he denied the di
IN i,y of Christ. the inspirations of the =
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