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religious love that Mr. Iilton deacants 80 loft

glowing genius and aentimenta!isn lead him to
J "nere the lines are 80 finely drawn that we At
told the most perfect religious lives pass o.
s.ep ~ step to an ultimate invisible blendin:
! with the carnal. Here is flight OF fancy tha
We 1nstinctiYely turn from as from loathsom,
picture, IN which there is nothing but what il
revolving to our higher natures; for it is not onl
lnc1mprehenslble. but impossible, that person.
tialy nl'ed with h!gh religious hopes and emo
J flons could commit 40 gross sin, and consciepc.
only warn them that they were SHINING bv prac
tlclne deception enough to hide it. In ali Dir
lliton's efforts in that vein, can only eco .
11ultless attempt to place single prop under
character he il laboriug otherwise to tear II
shreds; for, II bis charges are proven, the worlt
cannot cover those vile sins with this gos.amo,
veu woven in his fancy. For they see crime a.
no Less crime because done in the name Of
HeAron- BY All eminent religious teacher aud 8
professed religious devotee. c,
BEECHER'S STATEMENT.
Ifho following portions Of 31r. Beechcr's state
ment did not appear in our .elegraphic report OF
that documunt:l
T1LToS AND woopuULL~
have no knowledge OF Mr.. Tltons friend
ship for Victoria Woodruff, other than that
which tue public already haa- That he maui-
tested hss admiration for her publicly, that ue
wrote her biography, aud that he presided ut her
| Stenw4Y Hail lecture. mention only because he
aroused against himself great indignation and
| odi1lm-
| The winter following (1871-72), Mr.. Ti1ton re-
turned from tho lecture-ield IL despair. En-
EaSements had been Cancelled, iuyita;louu with
| dla"n, and lie spoke Of the prejudice and re-
pugna1lce with which he was everywhere met as
lnoescrlbaDle. urged him to make prompt
| reputation OF these women and their doctrines
l told him that no man could rise against the
| public confidence with such load. AIr. 1jtou's
: ;aulty seldom allows him to regard himself
as LII tho wrong or his notions faulty. He could
mover bo made to believe that his failure to rise
! again "as caused bJ bis partnership with these
women, and By his want OF seusible work, which
work should make the public feel that Le had in
him power for good. Instead Of this he
preferred or profeseed to think that 1
| that I Was allowing him to bo traduced
without coming generously to the trout TO de-
1cnd him, aud that my friends we're working
against him, to which replied that, unless the
Laws OF mind were changed, not Almighty God
Himself could lit him into favor il these women
must be lifted with him. Netter1heiess sought
III every way to restore peace aud concord to
tho family which I WAS made to feel had been
injured By me-. aud vas dependent on my intlu-
ence for recovery.
[Mr. Beecller stated that 1fouiton showed him
q proof Of an article prepared By Tilton for the
Gotdcn Age (and since published in the Brooklyn
papers,, in which Bowen charged with max
lng scandalous accusations agaist Bcecher's
moral character; and that he tBeeclle:) PRO
to say:]
THE TD1p4n1rr anprEwEvr
On it's being shown to Air. Bowen. he Was
thoroughly alarmed. and hncedilv consented to
tue aE.ointment of aroitrators to bring about
ccctnr yas That Mr.. Bowen mid Mr. 'i;ton
over 81 00) and that a written aoraement w,a
entorrd into by Bowen. I1lron af,d myself ~
amnesty, concord, aud future peace 1t
was agreed that tue offensive article, the pub
m effect unon Nj NoweD md socnraG , 1,ann1
settIemcnt' .hnul1 h. DESTROYED w;tboTt aae;Gg
tina eht- tt VA. An act n traac,,arv nacnl,srlv'
baec i,at t|,;, article vas ncr,nitted tp cet nh
hands which would insure it's publication. and
that it was published. I vas assured that eyery
ycstice of it had been deetrovod nor untiI =
comparatiyely recent reriod aid I understand
how Mr.. Tilton secured its pnblication ,yithont
seeming to be himself responsible for the deed.
Tur wonn1,n11 i17pI1c.r1os
Finally afrar vaiu1r attemn;;r1 IN ob+o;,
1nfncy Eotb rom mysei, AMI no t,;fa ~ ia tha
price of its suppression. the Woodhul woman
i1ublished their yerson If the T;itnn scanSal IN
The November ~ 1910 'rha det,;Ia 1;,.an he
item we're % 70 minnie thoneh 40 5iatot}a,f that
gu5uicion was uuiyeraaI1y dirpctcd towards NIr
Til;pu as tho real author Of tiiis which ho ~ |
Justly calls "a wicked and horrible scandal"
thou.,, IL il mt Viii r,ora ,,n1r;ha thon H.
which he hag now fatheroa aud ,,ot Lo1f o.
wicked because thosa al.sncnnnI woman ID nnr
lave personal know1e1pe of tha fa,sitv Of thoir
story as Nr. Tflton has of his 'o1
r1LroSs "Tnrr sTarE,,r,rn
To rid himself Of this incubus, AIr, T,ton
drew up q yolutniuons papcr callod Trno
Statement, but which was fanKl,arly called
"Tiltons case" bad eomo knowledge of its
composition, having heard much of it read /: but
some documents were only referred to as on tiie.
and others had nos rot been manufactured.
Ttlton's ft1ror for compiling statements
was one O: nv familiar annoyances,
used to tell me that the only way
tc manage Theodore was to Ie1 him work OF his
passion On some such document. aud
then to pounce on the document and suppress it.
This particular true statement" was a special
plea or abatement Of the preiudices excited bY
his Woodruff partnership It Vas nuddlo OF
garbled statemeuts, manufactured documents. /
and downright fasehoods. This paper I
inow he read to many, and I am told
hat he read it to not less than fifty por-
one, in y.li. b lie did not pretend to. charge IN
morality upon his wifo !: on the contrary. he |
explicitly denied it, aud assorted her purity, bnt
harceti me with improper oyertures to her Itwas
lis paper le read to Dr.. Storrs, and poisoned |
herewith h,s mind. thus leading to the attempt
0 prosecute Tilton in Plymouth Church, the in-
crfcreuce Of ueishborius churches, and the cali
nS of the CONGREGATIONAL Council. After tho
Voodlnll story was published, and while Mr.
alton seemed really deslrons, for short time,