The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-15

came spring of influence from that day
TO this. If my prayer meetings DO not
go right it is my fault. If the
! people do not come 10 church,
I am TO blame for their
not coming. If things go wrong
in my family find the reason in myself,
| have foreseen Quarrels in the chnnch,
| if l had left them alone they would have
burst and broke out but ] cling under
advice thus given and doing my own
duty have no difficulty in my church.
Letter from Beeeher TO Moulton.
The letter from Beecher 10 MoultOn
referred 10 in the beinning of the cross
examination, is as follows:
MONDAY, February 9th, 1872.
! Ny DEAR FRIESp:-I leave town
to-day and expect TO pass through from
Philadelphiv to New Haven, and shall
not be here until Friday About three
weeks ago | met Tilton in the cars going
TO Baltimore, he was kind to me and
talked much, he told me to go ON with
my work without the least anxiety,
in so far as his feelings and actions were
the occasion of apprehension.
! On returning home from New Haven
! where | am three days in the week de-
! livering course lectures to theological
! students ! found note from Elizabeth
saying that Theodore felt hard toward
me, and she was going a. see or write
| for me before she left for the west, she
| kindly added: know YOU do and arr
willing abundantly to help him, and |
| also know your embarrassment; there
] - Il
consolation, for q, believe that Eliza
beth is beloved of God, and that her
prayers are for me, and are sooner heard
! than mine for myself or for her. But
/ il seems that change
/ has come to Ttlton since saw him in the
cares. Indeed even since he has felt
| more intensely the force of feeling in ST.
| Cicty. and the humiliations which environ
! his enterprise, he has growingly felt that
had power Ia help which | did not
! dcvclopc, and | believe that You have
participated in this feeling II is natural
| YOU should. Tiltou is dcarcr 10 you than
| can be. lie is with you. Al his TRIALS
lie open to your eye daily, but ! see yuu
but seldom and my personal relations,
/ environments, necessities, limitations,
dangers and pcrplcNiticS YOU cannot Srr
nor imagine. II had no; gone through
| this great year of sorrow | would not
have believed that any one could pas,
/ through my experience and be alive or
| saved.
The Centre ofConccntric Circles. n
| have been the centre of three de-
tinCt circles, each of which required clear
mindcdnc,s and peculiarly inventive or
| originating power viz: Fir,t, the great
/ church; second, the newspapers; third,
/ the book. The first ] could neither get
out Of nor slight, the scnsItlvcncss of ~
/ many of my pcuplc would have made
| any Appcarnnc" Of trouble ar any rrmH-
sion of alarm aud notice and have cN-
. cited where II was important the rumurs
| should die and everything bc qulotrd
In IN" newspaper | did the role Of doing
| but littlc except give general directions,
| and IN 50 doing ! was continually
spurrrd and cNhurtcd by those IN the in
| tcrcst Of il. II could not b" helped.
| The Life of Christ, long delayed had
! locked up the capital of the firm, and
! WAS likely to sink them. Finished II
must be-. Was ever book born of such
/ sorrow as that WAS. The interior history
/ Of II will never bo written. During MI
! this time You literally were nlI
my stay aud comi"rt. should haV"
| fallen on the way but for the courage
/ which YOU inspired and the hope which
| YOU brcnth"d. Ny vacation was prohta-
bic, and cam" bnck hoping that the bit
tcru"s. of death wa. passed, but TIlt"ns
! troubles brought back the cloud with
even ."v"rrr .uilcrrng.. For all the fall
and winter have felt that you did not
feel satisfied with ne aud | shunu"d b"th
YOU aud Tiltou, contcnting myself with
cautious "r sluggish policy, willing g.
say" myself but not not Ia rIsk every
thing for TIltun. have HgHIn and
ngain prob"d my heart tO SOC whether !
wa. truly liable la such feeling. and thr
response is uncquiyOcal that am not
No man can ,rc the difficulties then "r-
yIroning me uulc,s he stands whcr" I de-.
To say that have church on ny
hhnds. That Is simple enough. But 90
hay" the hundreds aud thUusnuds Of men
pressing me, each one with hls keen .u.-
pICIon or anxiety, or zeal, tu sc" t"ud"u.
cies which II not stopped would break "ut
into rulnOus defense of me tO.stUp them
without seeming b. do IT, o. prevent any
one questioning me; 81 meet and Rllay
prejudiccs against TiltDn, which had their
beginning years before this; 10 keep 80
rene,
A. ri was Not Alarmed
| or disturbed; 10 be cheerful at homo or
among friends when ! was suffering
the tOrmcnts Of the damned; 70 pa.s
.lceplcss nights often and get b. como
up fresh and full for Sunday; all thrs
may bc talked sbOut, but the real thing
cannot b" under.tnod from the Outside,
nor IL wearing and grinding "n IL"
nervous system. God knows that hRy"
/ put more thought and Judgment and
/ caTncstncs- into my effort 10 pr"paT"
/ way for Tit"n and Elizabeth than ever
/ ! did for mvsclf n hundred fold. 4. 30
the outside public have never lot an
I opportunity 10 sDften prejudice, to rcfut"
| fai.chOOd and tO excite holy feeling
among all whom ! met. am thrown
among clcrgymcn, pnblic men and grnr.
rally the maker. II public opinion, and ]
! have Used every rational cndaAyur tD 70
| pair the evils which have been yi.itnI
upon TiltDn. and with Increasing succc..,
/ but
The Results Of this Prejudice are
Long.
! The catastrophe whI"h precipItAted him
, from his place, only dDcIo-od the feeling.
| that had existed long. Neither hc nor
you can h. aware of the feelings 81 cIas.-
/ . in society. On other grOunds than
late rumOrs mention this tp explain
only what know with ab-Olutc certain
/ ". No mere statement. litter tcstimony
Or affirmation reach the rDOt Of Affairs and
reIR.tatG them; time and work will, bUt
chronic evil require chronic rcmoiie.. ~
nv destruction would place him all right
that shall not stand in my wsy. am
willing 70 step down and 6u,. No one