Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-03-03

consideration given to every part OF the re-
suit, add greatly to its force and weight
The Council held three sessions a dav for
nearly two weeks, and the members Of COM
mittees worked without intermission, except
for hasty meals, from o'clock in the morn
ing until IL or II at night.
We most heartily commend the result OF
the Council to the consideration OF the
church and feel no doubt that its recon-
mendations will be Immediately adopted.
They seem to us wise and prudent in every
respect and promise more efectual help to
this church, and to the great cause Of
which this church is but one small instru-
mont, than could well have been hoped for
in advance.
The committee reported resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted by the
church, returning thanks TO the mem
bers of the Council for their wise, faithful
and impartial advice, and for the opening Of
path By which the church may now rea-
sonably hope to bring to an end its difficult
ties, and to solve ali those questions which
have perplexed it in the past and further :
Tha, Plymouth Church gladly and unreservedly
accepts the advice and admontion Of the ADVISORY
Council and will promptly carry into effect all the
Recommendations o: that Council and that in pur-
suance Of these recommendations II does now Invite
and challenge any or all persons who are wiling
10 be responsible for charges against the pastor OF
this church 10 bring forward such charges In the
manner prescribed by the result OF the Council,
this church pedging itself TO cause an exami
immed lately, TO be made in the manner advised by
the Council and under the dire.tion OF the Commit
tee appointed thereby.
MR. BEYCHERs SPEECH At The CLOSE OF TEE
COUNCIL.
Ii has come to pass that Tor - many years
! | have read Of myself and heard of myself
that have ceased in some moods to havean
actual self, and AN projected as an idea be-
fore nv own mind. And if | shall speak
somewhat freely, after the manner of men,
about myself, | wish to consider it a part of
that metaphysics which DR.. Porter says is
so bad | have often read as if were read
ing in a novel about the bad hero. and
walked up from the dream and grimly laugh
ed as asked myself s. Is it Inc that they
mean is it possible for a man to live as long
as | have and as openly, and acted upon 50
large theatre, and been agitated By such
Notwithstanding events, and be 50 utterly mis-
conceived ," | have had the reputation of
| being frank man. 1t is true that am not
a man of very cautious speech, and may
therefore sometimes not have expressed my
/ self intelligentlt, though at other times |
have had the reputation of being able TO
make myself understood Nevertheless, it
| has come to pass that | supposed myself to
have been more thoroughly canyassed and
construed in a less enyiable light than has
beiallen any Of my contemporaries.
am very sorry that it should be 50.
have no love of being hero, and have still
less Of being such hero a have been made
TO be | tell YOU that to hear men talking
| whether | am or am not guilty makes the
very mother-thought Of my soul SILVER and
blush in me. For | am open to that sense
Of truth and purity and honor and right,
that 10 be held before jury and u sit six
long months and TO have rained upon me
perjury and professional abuse, and to feel
that over the whole broad extent of this land
was the focal point on which journalism
was expending itself, and that, too, not as
| to whether | was Republican or Democrat,
not whether | was orthodox or heterodox,
not whether this or that system expounded
was rightly held, but whether | was an in
efable culprit-l have not been hunted as
an eagle Is hunted have not been pur-
sued Is a lion has been pursued have not
been pursued even a. wolves and foxes |
have been pursued as if was a maggot IN
r1tten corpse-and do You suppose that it
i IN human nature to 90 through months
and through years, and not u feel it ? And
yet, it it please God, who has enabled me to
" through the desert and the Red Sea. that
| should 20 On, God Is my Judge that | am
both willing and am able 10 20 on again
another FIVE years, for | can DO all things,
Christ Strengthening me, and the life that
now live in the flesh live by faith in the
Son Of God, who loved me never - much as
now
At the same time, il NAV be in my power
to defend myself on every kind and charge.
1t may be in my power with dates and cir
clmstances to expound the reason Of my con-
duct. Let me say | am the child Of no
bic mother and of a noble father, and not to
NY own credit whatsoever, what have re-
ceIyei, | an. And was brought up in an
austere morality and in pure and unblem-
ishcd household. with a most reyerent love
for truth, for duty, for love And 10 me has
been given a nature that, whether it be pru-
dent or whether it be not, am not ques-
toned nor questionable but when they re-
huke the vine for throwing out tendrils, and
holding on to anything that Is next to it,
whether It be homely or handsome, whether
II be dry or full Of sap-when YOU shall find
4 heart To rebuke the twining morning glorv
or any other plant that holds on to that
which i next 10 it-you nav rebuke me for
misplaced confidence YOU NAV rebuke me
Tor loving where | should not love. 1t is |
not my choice it Is my necessity. And |
have loved on the right and on the eft, here |
ami there, and i: Is my joy that to-day am |
not ashamed Of it. am glad Of il, and if | |
had NY life 10 live over again, and were to
choose between a cold caution, calculating |
every step, without trust and confidence in |
man, | would, with all its liabilities, choose |
10 be generous. TO be magnanim0us, and to |
be trusttnl, and 10 lean. though some one |
should step aside and let me fall to the |
ground
And lei ne say further that was brought 1
up in a household where the name oi woman
was only next TO the name Of saint. and with
good reason | always thought it should stand
there. The memory of nv mother has been
to me what the Virgin Mary has been to a
deyotee Of the Roman Church. She has been
part and parcel Of my upper Ife-a star
whose larallax could not take, but never
theless, shining from alar. she has been the
light that lit me easier into the thought of
the invisible and the presence of the Divine.
My sisters | need not speak Of. Nv associa-
tons have been with women who have left
upon nv mind an indelible impression of
honor. and reverence, and Of affection. and
III that have gone through, and all that
have suffered at the hands of those that are
IF another school, has not changed, nor in
The slightest degree blurred the sense that
nave of the dignity and the sacredness, and
he beauty Of womanhOod.
And when have stood upon the threshold /
u what seemed to me-knowing the secret
Elements that were in it, and how cloud no
'isger than mans hand might roll up and
over the whole heaven when | have stood
nd looked out upon what might come. what
Misery might be, | have said, and God
nows the sincerity and the depth of il. ,
1t Is better for me, ii it be possible, it is
eiier Tor me to stand and be misunderstood.
nan that there should be suffering over so 7
1ide circle as | believed there would be. /
Ind that there have been 50 many heart
ehes, that there have been 50 many whose
aces never saw that have been bathed in )
ears, that there has been even the ecllrse
lallh, that las been mentioned in many. :
My shows how much would have been saved !
humanity if it had been possible that !
nat policy of sufoeating domestic trouble i
nd keeping it in the origin had been follow /
out and honorably observed. 1t seems to 5
lie policy not only, but duty To suppress and a
lalntaln IN its seclu>on that which if il u
1rsts out will know no bounds and no ter Il
lnatIOn. The eGdeavOr | do not recret C
ie i'll success Of it, | 10. c
Aliusion has been made to sadness on nv
lrt, OF which no man NAV know For what Il Il
ier may be the range of a man outward :,
lie, there Is a word thin. unknown to any a
at God, and the most vital part of every /
ans life is that which is within the crystal h
I'VE OF his own silence and secrecy, and of 4
lat do not propose to speak any further
AN this-that have often felt that nv n
lie had come very near to its end live in Il