The Van Buren press., 1875-07-06
REV. MR.. BEECHER DEFIANT.
de Declares that the World Cannot
Crush Him.
New York sun, June 18th.

:. the room was full, gallery and all. BY hal
past it was packed. But by s it was suil0
eating. Mr.. Bcccher stepped quickly to tn,
platform, looked about him tor moment
and then seated himself in the comfurta bl,
. arm chair that was waiting for him. II,
b searched through the Plymouth Collection
s for some minutes, and then announced til,
! 22jth hymn:
Mr. .eechel did not join in the singing Of
this hymn as he had done in the first II,
| leaned back and gazed at the ceiling. appar-
emily collecting his thoughts. When the lasl
tone OF the great congregations voice had
, died away. he Strengthened up in his chair
and said
WHERE MAN SHOWS HIS METTLE.
) 81 will not tire you this warm evening, -
Mr.. Bcech,r began, keeping his seat. With
the customary address, | have a few words
that wish to say to you. and will say them
at once and let you 90 want to talk to you
: about quality, The time to test quality is not
> the time OF ease. 1t is said by sportsmen that
the time to test English huntcrs-horses, |
mean, not men-is when they are crossing x
ploughed ground. Many poor horse can 20
well over smooth road or even across a pas
+ ture lot, but it is when they are crossing a
, plou.hed field that their quality is tested. 1t
takes wind and st tngth. If they can stand
WIS scNcIt lcsI lhty are SoOu HORSES ANY
hemely, unsghtly bridge is good until YOU
, put weights on it. 1t is when it is crossed by
c a train of cars and heavy locomotive that It's
{ quality is tested. II it is broken by the weight
o it isn't good for anything,
TROUBLE THAT STRIKES DEEP.
ave expect more of Christian, because
, the ideal is higher. We have right to OK
pect more. 1t is not, What will a man do in
; time of trouble? but, What win a man do
a., II, III, 81,
, it is best calculated to strike himE When
men speak evil against you, and you don't
know whom to trust; when your feet are
stone cold, and you are standing in the porch
of death--how do you bear up then? Some
men are in trouble when they lose money, |
amt. can lose thousand dollars and not
care that for it ,napping his fngcr>l 1t
would be much better for me if cared more
for it. | might lose and lose, and lose and
keep my spirits and he cheerful; and some
stingy old man, who thinks more of his gold
than of his soul, might see me losing my
money and keeping my spirits, and might
say, How that man can bear up under trou-
bic, when in reality 1t Was no such thing it
would not be real trouble to me. You must
see that trouble is personal--tnat it strikes
home There must be evidence that a man
has resources that are diStnctiyely Christian.
so that when ali things that can be brought
to bear on man are pushed against him. aud
he Is easy and calm, yeu can say, What is it
that suStains that MANI Is there such Il sus-
tanning power? say that there is 1t may
not he in all of Us in the same degree, but it is
; in your measure, and in the measure of every
Christian man, to obtain victory over the
world and victory over himself, by the
power oi Christ.
AS soon as Il man believes that God loves
him and watches over him. lac has one point.
You must have belief that Is to YOU As an
bilge water, or anything else that j. unpras-
ant to the taste. lon must have belief that
l. stronger than the sense of taste, or any OF
the senses. DO you believe that God is nearer
to- you than father. OF mother, or brothers. or
sisters? ! do. | BEAR that witness before
you. ! know that | am the Lords. Living
or dying. | am the Lords [Applause.l In
that there is JOY and peace; for If God be for
you. and YOU know it, You know that no man
, can be against you. lou can't hurt such a
man. II he goes up, It's all right; of course
he goes up; if he goes down, what difference
i does It make? Its only part OF the process
t cess of going up. what are you going to do
with such aman? II i, a conviction as large
as the capacity of my lite; and do you sup
pose that anything can disturb the peace of a
: heart that rests in God? The momcnt man
u lives in that thought, he is three times MAJ,
f Oh, how strong man i when he is strong In
the Lord,
VISIONS OF liERNllf,
, I've been thinking ofeternity all the after
i noon, Lying on my bed, and sitting on nv
$ front door steps, looking at men whom have
/, never seen before, and probably shall never
see again. | should be ashamed of myself in
my inncrmoSt soul If allowed myself to be
e disturbed by these little earthly ripplcs
q What am am going 10 live rever.
don't own the house live in That is just a
temporary stopping place that i,as been lent
IN lt., Il. ua Ia, | ln.
y long to eternity. All the hurly- -burly Of thi.
= world what i, it to man who know, he be-
= longs in eternity? In an eternity which is
not far In front of him, five years perhaps, ol
u ten. or fifteen, or, possibly, even twenty at
c the very most; Then what are all these
g things?
}, the BUzziSG IN THE HIVE.
9 "Suppo,e were to read all the newspaper
hunting tor all the httle unpleasant, and un-
true, and witty, and snapping and snarling
e things that are said about me. What would
L you think of a man who would take all IN,
n clothe. OIL and 20 out and roll in u field OF
nettles; There are many men who act lik,
= that--they hunt for trouble Suppose heai
# what's buzzing in this hive, ana that hive
c and in all these hives? What would be tn,
, manly way to look at it? Suppose | should
y moan aud say, I'm 50 much abused I'm 20
c ing cIa2y. YOU think I'm such sneak
II as that? care nothing for it. II all bclong'
|, in the great scheme OF affairs.
h ONE OF pEECuER's OWN ILLUSTRATIONS.
= "As good an illustration ~ | can give you
y of this is a man coming home from China, lie
y la, been away for years, and has not seen amy
a of his kinsmeh. When he reaches New lorh
there has not been rain Tor months, and
everything is parched, burning up. He ha,
l. to 20 way out to New Hampshire In the cars
and every body is sitting in the train moppin.
y their faces and tanning themselves. II,
e throws his head back and thinks. The dust
a and the heat do not trouble him ; he has
weghtcr matter. on his mind Presently q
young man approaches him and says; Veal
II ", th, is unbrarable How annoying this
V dust is. isn't it:' The traveller looks about
:. him and sees that there is dust lie feels
. that the air is warm lie had not noticed ii
= before. He SAYS to tEe young man, Yes
now that You mention it. | see that there il Il
Is dust; and that the air is warm. 1t hasn't
. troubled me. | shouldn't have noticed il; but
" am sorry ON your account YOU see that
when man has great purpose, things that
a. annoy others do not annoy him Its in the
power of n noble feeling to eXpel trouble II
u a man believes in Providence. and in man
: hood, and in Christianity. he is more than he
l. was before, and he knows that every body
4 knows who he l., and that every body say $
| want to see how one OF Christs men acts
is he the man who should be disturbed by
n tribes:
. 81 have gone through as many annoyances
- In the last five years Of my life. probably, u,
most men have gone through--annoyance