The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-13

more than twenty years ago, ard tho book
itself had been published perhaps twenty
or TWENTY-FIVE years prior to the time OF my
reading it. Yours truly, III Fa
rxenry Ward Beecher. 81
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SHROPSHIRE BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SIS Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered his
lecture oil, j" Religion in Education = at the,
Bajtimore Academy OF Music Thursday
evening before an audience numbering
about one thousand persons, perhaps nan
) OF them ladies'. 49, i-8t
he said that by the ancients man as man
was not thought Of but as q tool. Educa-
tion was for the nobility and the priesthood,
but for the masses ignorancewas duty:
Now, for the first time IN the history OF
mankind, ignorance in Europe has become
disconnected with its condition. The great
democratic masses, who have the eagles
eve and the lions strength, are asking why
they are yet but as barn-yard fowls-to lay
eggs and Les others eat themy The demand
for education is made by them, and they
have learned that knowledge is the Moses to
lead them ND. One man seldom acts on
high Christian principles-one hundred men
rarely do-and when nation is found doing
20. then the millennium is at the door.
Iaughter.]
He declared there were no Drawer men on
the earth than the southern soldiers, and
there never were ADLER leaders. IApplause. J
But the southern armies were worn out oy
the general culture and habits OF ilbetty
which gave their opponents superiority.
An educated man is a oDo-bladed man, the
other blade staying in the handle ana wear
ing out. ,
Mr.. Beecbcr asserted that one fourth OF
mankind only are producers. LOW 10 aug
ment the wealth-producing power Is. the
question with governments ana commuhi-
ties, and education adds to the workers. lie
called the drones that most Respectable class
in society who are eating up what their IA
thers left them: eating up last years honey.
Their Woodworking fathers turn them out
without edge or grit, untanned raw leather
men, who part their hair exactly right, wear
gloves, and arc polite, good fellows, but
who are thrown up whenever commerce mas
spasm, and then fall back on some aunt
or papa.
The laborer ut seventy-cents day COM
plains that he is q sovereign and voter,
and is as good as lecturer who receives
800 for a two hours talk, That is untrue.
The man who sells his bone and muscle
without his brains has q million Others Just
like him, and every OK and every ass 1or MS
competitor. Education united to SOUND IN
tellect commands fancy price.
He humorously referred to the TACT that
he could now say things to Baltimore au-
dience which at one time he could not nave
told them without danger OF being mobbed.
a. oh ~
colored men was the most audaclous act
that was ever done in the world. During
the war, when the whole interior districts
OF the South were bare Of white men, the
colored people did not revolt, and there
were no murders or arsons charged to them.
Since emancipation they have earned two
thousand millions dollars, and when they
have voted wrong the fault he freely admit
ted was to be charged to northern carpet
baggers. [Applause.1
Mr.. Beecher strongly advocated female
suffrage. When q grog-shopis opened over
from her house, he said, it is shame that
the mothers hand has not the ballot with
which to beat it down. loud applause.
He said that next to the household the most
important institution to the country is the
common school. The Bible is not the best
reading-book for the schools, and it is never
read through as book. For competent
persons to select portions Of the Bible to be
read in schools where it is wanted
would be. proper. But in mixed schools,
where there are Protestants, Catholics,
Jews, ana others, it is not right that
that creed which has the voting as
cendancy should insist on the reading OF a
book that the others object to as mat
ter OF conscience. He does not want God
less schools: but the best blackboard on
which to teach truth, patriotism, and reli-
eion is found in the teachers heart. The
school is the worst sphere in which secta-
rianism can be involved, and he protested
against embroiling the children Of the land
in sectarian strife.
Mr.. Beecher was applauded at the close
OF the lecture, and left the stage without
any other demonstration from the audience.