Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-03

amount into existence. No matter
how polluted the water Of land or
ocean may he, 1t is ever silently and
unseen returning in purity to the great
reservoirs prepared for 1t in the bound
less realms of the azure sky. Well
might the Master employ water as an
outward emblem of the inner purifica-
tiOn of the soul. As there is a constant
interchange between the natural wa
ters above and those below, so in the
spiritual world there can bc no fruitful
life on earth unless the tendrils Of the
human soul lay hold upon the Infinite.
II the skeptic will not believe that the
faith which he cannot comprehend Is
capable Of doing this wonderful thing,
how can he, except by the researches
Of others, know that the sun can in an
hour lift millions of tons of water into
the vaulted heaven, and hold it there
with perfect ease? "EvaporatiOn,"
says he. ais active law in the natural
world" and "faith." SAYS the believer,
a., an equally natural law active in
the spiritual world. only it must be
spiritually discerned.
Tilson.s Assault ON Reechev.
There are men, some of them edi-
tors of ncwspers, who would be de-
lighted to know that the charges
brought against Henry Ward Beccher
by Theodore Tilton are actually true.
They cOver,ly hate religious truth and
at times they openly indicate that it af-
fOrds them happiness to think and
talk or write of protesting Christians
as hypocrites and knaves, compared
with whom they. by inference, are
pleased to rate themselves as veritable
saints. A person charged with crime is
is in charity supposed to be innocent un-
til declared guilty by adequate proof
before the proper tribunal. Except by
insinuation, and the publication of u
letter Of implied confession, there is no
proof offered by the accuser of Beech
er's guilt. A man like Tilton, who
proclaims his wife's dishonor to the
world, and vet continues to live with
her; who links his name with the no.
torious free-lovc Victoria Woodruff,
by writing history of her disreputa-
bic life; who accepts of an apology
from Mr.. Beecher, and at n late date
enters into an agreement with him
that he will cease to circulate the scan
dal complained of. and then deliberate
ly sends it abroad, wider and wider, is
not deserving of much consideration.
i
made di>honor,ble proposal to Mrs.
Tilton, and this the lady says is untrue.
If MIR. Beecher wrote the confession on
which Tilton's whole charge rests, the
fact does not necessarily imply that he
is gully. lie probably had up to
certain time no suspicion that Tilton
was a jealous, malignant person, and
with the freedom of innocencv he
may have been on the most intimate
terms with Mrs. TiltOn, as II friend and
member of his church. To an insane
ly jealous husband, the most innocent
attentions to his wife by gentleman
can be twisted so as to appear to other
parties rs evidence of dishonorable de-
signs. 1t may be that Beecher snddcn-
ly found he had laid himself open to
misconception in the eyes of the jeal-
Gus TiltOn, and seeing that under such
unexpected circumstances he had been
indi>creet, he may, for the ladv's sake,
and to make peace between her and
her husband, have taken upon himself
the burden Of apparent wrong-doing
indicated in his confession. If he
counted anything Oh Tilton's magnan-
unity to a man who nobly took all the
blame of an indiScretion on himself, he
evidently misunderstood his true char
acter. There is one thing plain now,
however: MIR. Bcccher can not afford
to ignore these >eandalous charges any
longer. If he does not vindcate his
asperScd character, there are thousands
of persons, many of them his warm
friends, who will inevitably come to
the conclusion that he is unable to do
so. His admirers still believe him in
nOcent, and for the sake of the cause
of which he has been a greatly dis
tinguished advocate, they consider it
imperative that lie should prove that
point before the world. 1t may be
we'll enough to let ordinary ISLANDERS
pass unlleeded, but where an assertion
is publicly made, or insinuatcd. which,
if true. strikes Il fatal blow at moral
character and Christian usefulness. il is
almost a crime for the innocent to re-
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