Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-01

But If Mr.. Beecher is neither convicted
nor absolutely indicated, there are some
respects in which the trial has had q prac-
teal issue. We have no doubt it has
broken up that mischievous little coterie
of transcendental fools of which Theodore
Tilton was the effulgent. center. 1t Inns
exposed to the world the hideous selfish
ness and essential immortality of those
everlasting chatterboxes who have been
poisoning the lyceum and the press with an
idiotic travesty of philosophy, and dressing
up lust in the relies of religion. If it has
torn away the vail which decency draws
over certain subjects, it has partly made
amends for this by turning out Of the do
nestle circle set of men and women
that would have taught society that the
family is only relic OF servituae, and
the home virtues are the fictions of super
stition. There is no place for these peo-
pie any more in respectable houses. And
on the other side it has perhaps set afoot
a much needed reform in Plymouth
Church. We shall hear less henceforth
of that horrible Gospel Of Gush to which
so much of the misery of this case is d.
rectly traceable. We shall hear less of
the rant about true inwardness, and songs
in the heart, and all the other mushy
emotions which with this new school Of
lusty mystics usurp the place of the old
fashioned virtues of faith, hope and char
ity. 1t will not be esteemed the essence
Of religion to love somebody, and ladies
and gentlemen, we hope, will not go about
kissing one another Unfortunately,
either in the paroxysmal or in any other
style. A great reaction against the old
Plymouth pattern of sanctity is newt
able, and we shall not be surprised if Mr.
Beecher himself take the lead in it. He
is undoubtedly man of strong feelings.
Of warm fancy, and, in certain way, of
refined poetical apprehensions. We say
nothing of the errors into which he may
have been led by these dangerous gifts,
but he can see for himself what his poetry
has done for certain set among the con-
gregation. What is sentiment in the pas
tor degenerates into slobber in the parish
Toner; and healthy religious feeling, hon
est practical, manly life, realization of
the hard daily duty of the Christian, are
too nearly lost in the misty contempla-
tions of love-sick devotees who wrap
themselves in the. luxury of their own
emotions. Of course we do not mean to
say that this is the characteristic of all
Plymouth Church, or even of the greater
part of it; but that the preacher has man
aged to involve himself with little set
of most unwholesome pietists it hardly
needed the revelations Of this scandal to
prove; ana II seems u bc sA.A-Ai.A4
now for them either to come to theii
senses or else step down and out.
Meantime it is characteristic of MIR.
Beecher that in remarkable address to his
people, delivered Friday night, he defined,
with some distinctness, his purposes for
the future. They are the purposes of an
innocent mar, much maligned, who means,
nevertheless, to do his Masters work, as
he may have opportunity, to the end. Is
it the part Of good men to wish em God
speed in his work, or to pursue him with
innuendo and malignant suggestions Of a
Islander which six months trial could
not provea