The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-03-15
The New Congregational Dogma.
Beecherism as Fully Illustrated
by its Great Expounders in
Rr0OkIyn

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Brooklyn. g...fe- ss
Mrs. Jane G. swissheim, in the Chicago TribpIe.
was we'll acquainted with lady
who removed with her husband to
Brooklyn some twelve. years ago. and
who was universally esteemed as
sensible, practical woman, and who
lived above any shadow of suspicion
as blameless Christian. She was
aboTe the average. in intelligence
and integrity, and no stain has ever
rested upon her name. Well, this
woman was recently on visit to
her old home, when an old friend
asked her. . What about Beecher? p
ooh! he is all right!'' was the an
swer. His congregation will stick
to him to the last. and well they
may. for there is but one Henry
Ward Beeeher. No other man could
ever fill his place, and they know it. =
"But is he guilty.
"Oh that makes no difference I!
If he is, he is no worse than David
and thousands of Others. His con
gregation do not blame him. for they
all know how unhappy his domestic
relations are, and they VIII stick to
him"
Where is Mrs. Tilton ?"
"Oh she and her mother are
keeping boarders quite near to where !
we lived. and are doing well. Ply
mouth gave them great many pres
ents of useful and beautiful things"
docs Beecher go to see them?'
+ ooh, no! The men says he is
too smart to be caught again T.
"The men of his congregation?
Then they believe him guilty p
They co not care to know! AT
ter the trial he got basketfuls of let
ters congratulating him. My broth
er has been a member of his church
for years and years, and an usher. !
| know he wrote 10 him, saying :
8 You are all right from the waist |
up; and that is all care to know -
She thought it probable he had |
had hundreds Of such letters for she
had heard great many of his friends |
talk on the subject, and this was
their general statement: the men
Jest about it, and say if he is as ir-
resistible ont Of the, pulpit as in it, 1
they do not blame the woman and |
the women, generally. feel that he |
paid Mrs. TiIton 4 great compliment. 1
For my own part, [ am glad he new
er paid any attention to me for his
mesmeric power is so great that /
do not think any woman could resist |
him. / am not a member of his |
church. but always 60 to hear him. /
Sarah (her sister is a member, and /
she says it is q great compliment to
any woman to have Mr.. Beecher pay |
attention to her: and with such q I
wife as ne has, what can any one ex-
pect, or how can any one blame him?
She was talking with another lady !
member, who said she wished Mr.. /
Beecher would pay attention to her
To q woman with an uncongenial /
husband, his friendship would be de-
: for. he could eympathize
with her. No one knew better than I
lie how hard it was to be tied for
life to an uncongenial companion"
The woman who made these dis
gusting disclosures was in simple
earnest, and told what she believed, |
or knew to be true, without any of
the horror she wonld once have felt /
ut such sentiments. Her statements |
tally SO well with the action Of that
people that there is little room to
doubt their correctness; aud to
those who would save our social fab
ric from sinking into the quicksands
of free love, comes up the question,
what is to be done with this wide
spread corruption? 'maz Eaa ~.ar