Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-10
DIR. BACON AND THE ADVISORY
COUNCIL.

DIR. BACON AND THE ADVISORY
COUNCIL.
So far. the telegraph has reported
to us but one respectable name
outside of the Plymouth communion
supporting the Beecher demand for a
Congregational Advisory Council. We
refer to the Rev. Leonard Bacon, of the
Center Church of New Haven. DR..
Bacon has written and published a
letter to his co-religionists, e%ntreating
them to afford full c~ountenance to the
advisory Council;" to swallow their
disgust at the whole business and their
disapproval of Beecher personally, and
for the sake of their church orgauiza-
ton to give to the council a general
notan individual character. His appeal
however, does not seem to meet with
a cordial response from, sister
churches. We have been informed by
telegraph of several churches of the
Congregationalis,s which have refused
to entertain the invitation Of Plym-
outh, and this mornings dispatches
state that all the churches of that soci-
ETY. in Providence-a point whore
the Congregationalists are notably i'm
portant in numbers and wealth-have
turned their backs upon the whole
Beecher business. DR.. Bacon's name
must and should carry great weight.
His name and his fame are historic.
He is, as far as may be according to
his tsnets, the high priest of his sect
He is by nature, by education and by
habits of life, a religious and political
controversialIst; and yet a faithful pas
tor and a good man. He is a maker,
not a follower, of public opinion. Heis of
the best blue blood OF Connecticut. His
"Society" is descended in strict sue
cession from that founded by the faith
ers of the colony two hundred and fifty
years ago. He has passed a life of
study and labor under the venerable
shades of Yale, and has been, since the
Bible-rifie days of '52, a not unimport-
ant element in the anti-slavery move
ment, which eliminated in secession,
abolition and re union. But even DIR.
Bacon's character and position will not
serve to shield Beecher at this crisis.
1t is to be hoped tor the sake of his
good name that, in this advice to his
brother Congregationalist, he is inhu-
enced solely by a desire for the good of
Gods Church, andf for the safety, honor
and welfare OF his people. His appear
ance as an advocate could only damage
himself and his church. 1t could not
benefit the accused. For ourself, while
inclining to a belief in Beecher's guilt,
we hold our opinion as one to be re.
moved by evidence. We are 10th to
look upon so great a fall, and would
welcome convincing testimony of his
innocence. But the world has judged
differently. He has been weighed in
the balance of public opinion and found
wanting; and the general sentiment is
heightened by the contrast between the
the polish, unmanly temper he has be
trayed since the late trial, and the self
contained, self respecting anu of
Tilton. The one with modesty and
dignity pursues his vocation; the other
falls to scoldfAg all, and sundry like a
very drab. Whatever may be the
truth concerning the charges preferred
and re.preferred against him, his ca
reer Of usefulness in this life is ended.
At that higher tribunal, before which
in the course of nature he must shortly
appear, his virtue may be vindicated.
FLESH ANb Fowl. - The Carson
Tribune says the SENTINEL has gone
out of its way to bestow praise on the
State Controller. Not at all, Uncle
Parkinson. Commentator of an hon
est and efficient public official, no mat
ter of what politics, is eve out Of our
way. We are under no obligations
personally, politically nor pecun.arily
to MIR. Hobart, not even to the amount
Of q subscription. but we believe he
has made an excellent State officer, and
that there is no particular reason why
he should be criticised so severely be-
cause he CHOOSES to indulge his family
in their preference q rSan Francisco to
Carson, especially when neither of our
United States Senators, both of WHOM
are almost daily the theme of adula-
tory comments in the Tribune, have
scarcely q constructive residence in the
State.
kTEALINGsS.
Last Friday night, says the Silrer
State Of the Sth, an emlgrant named
Alfred IArko. who. since he left Oy-