New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-20

man. then In the heyday Of youthful blood, then with
vigor and power such man In this assembly-not
my splendid friend Beaeh-ever had with physi-
cal strength and glowing earnest and daring nature
this passed through that ordeal and did not yield
Then he honest man. 1aen he was pure man.
Going from log cabin TO logcabn, he left nowhere the
trail of the seducer Going from one to another humble
school-house to teach the Word Of God 10
those who had stated preacher, he left
nowhere those who bore tho blnsh OF shame
after he had passed from among them. He could
wait He did wait until he had the means; on the first
day he called to position which promised him
support, when he took to his single unfrnshed rude
the wife OF his youth who il to-day the wife OF his
Do you believe that the who was faithful to
her through those years. and who was faithful to
her not only them down the year 1883 the 10th
OF November in that year called woman into his house.
took that Mrs Bcechers bed and left it, he
adulterer and the q prostitutef That not in
accordance with observations Of human experience
Of human affairs 1t Ia not truel
II You look again. what the position and character
OF the man in the meanwhilei Probably there is not
of your number who has not at time or other
heard OF that little Volume Of sermons the first
publication that appeared from his pen, written in
early life, the Lectures to Young Men," which I'M
dertake to-day say, from fresh reading Of il,
passes all that he has more, srpasses any
book ~ equal magnitude In the English language In the
purity Of its teachings the elevation OF s conceptions,
the grandeur OF its execution. He then engaged
in teaching those lessons OF purity and chastity to young
men and young women in which he had been rooted
and grounded in his fathers and his mothers house.
What more OF him : Ordinarily, II young men pass
the RubcOn manhood and preserve their characters
unspotcd and undecided, they are deemed safe for the
time to come. This did more. His little library
grew with his his work enlarged his power en-
arged he became the foremost man in his profession in
the West and then TO your beautiful city to do
work such in the United States have ever
done before life crowded with work, life so Dc
voted to the good Of his church. OF hs cOuntrynen oil
mankind OF bis Masters cause, and the cause OF the
poor the of oppressed race-every ease when
commends itself to the warm, generous heart-so De
voted all these that he gave to them the hours when
yon and give to recreation and to rest man OF cease
less avOcaton the Sabbath day alone not in the
church alone, but the PLATFORM in the ecclesiastical
council in the editorial rooms, the study OF the author
even when came, in front Of those assembaGes
OF his conrymen who 10 hear bis inspired words
before they went, taking with them his oldest son, To
ght the battles OF the country Nay, abroad standing
alone in the midst OF enemies where other Amer
could stand and changing the tide Of public opinion
that England, which all against s when he went,
became divided and the laboring Of England were
allies from that hour.