Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-02-02
BEEoHER,s PROVERBS.
As Given In His New Lecture on ''The
Ministry Of Wealth"
Philadelphia Times. Jan. 1s.

fMiadelPhla Times, Jan. TO-
Henry Ward Beecher began his
lecture in the Academy of Music
last evening in such low voice tina,
nobody could hear him. But he soon
warmed up to his subject, "The Min
lstry Of Wealth" and when he got
fairly started there was not nook
or corner OF the building that his
clear voice did not reach and echo
in. The Academy was nearly full,
and Mr.. Beecher was received with
warm applause when he stepped be-
tore the curtain. He was not chang
ed in mind or manner or appearance.
seemingly, since the days when his
fatherly face was a daily ornament
in the Brooklyn City Court room.
Ills lecture was not as vlvacious as
some previous ones, nor as full ofan-
ecdote; but it brinmed over with
honest expressions and sound com
mon sense. 1t was almost chain
of characteristic proverbs, original,
full of thought, and full, too, of the
fire that seems to burn iu unqucncha-
BILE flame in the great preachers
heart.
Beginning with a brief reference
to the scripture mentions of riches
and rich men, ''1t is easier for cam
el to 90 through the eye of needle
than for rich man to enter the
kingdom of heaven" and others of
like import, he unhesitatingly took
the ground that the accumulation of
riches is to he commended, not con-
demned. With very few words of
introduction, he branched out into
the proverbs, interlarding them SO
sklllfully with anecdote and gesture
that they sounded like the choice
parts OF 4 well told story: Here are
some of them:
The production OF wealth has been
the divine civllizer.
Property is some form Of matter;
1t is necessary that it shall have been
the product OF human intelligence to
give it value. All property has
brains in 1t.
The first element that required the
development OF property was hunger.
A mans stomach says to him, go to
work.
In so men there is always some
body who is better than anybody
else.
TO develop even the lower forms
Of property requires thought and
brain.
II it's mans impulse to strike,
give him an axe. and let him 90 into
the woods and strike trees.
In society, where men are busy
working, they're very apt to be peace
full. When they're riotous, it's be-
cause they have nothing better to do
No man likes to work.
10 do what you don't want to do,
and not to do what you want to do.
is true self denial. The impulse Of
every man is to do the agreeable
thing.
Not pain for the sake of pain, be-
cause suffering is any advantage.
The ability to control the lower ma
ture, in favor OF the higher nature is
the true self-denial.
1t is Indispensable that men should
work together.
Truth, honesty, fidelity, are the
three fundamental moralities on
which religion must stand.
Cooperative labor results in a pro-
duct far better than individual pro-
ducts put together.
No man can work harmoniously
with men whom he don't believe
when they speak to him. We natur-
ally exclude the untrustworthy lip.
Men must be honest, at any rate,
among themselves.
The presumption is that the great
mass OF men working together are
truth seekers. II they are not they
have to make believe they are.
| believe that it is more natural
for a man to tell the truth than to
lie, but will almi that there is
some lying going on in the world.
Even Il liar tells u hundred truths
to one lie. He has to, to make the
lie good tol anything.
All men are tempted; there is no
man that lives that can't be broken
down, provided it is the right temp
tation, put in the right spot.
Mountains of gold would not Sc
duce some men, yet tiattery would
break them down.
There's many Il man has been din
ed out of his religion, and his poll
tics, and his manhood, almost.
Some men are so fearful Of doing
wrong that they do nothing.
No man knows what he will do
till the right temptation comes.
We find good men telling lies, do
ing dishonest things, great deal
that is censurable; but, after ali, it's
in the bark, not in the fibre or in the
heart.
Stewart rolled up his fortune be-
cause he trusted in men and men an
swered to the trust.
Any man who goes into business
thinking, "rm sharper than anybody
else; I'll make money honestly or
dishonesty" that man might better
go to sea on raft of pig iron.
Every young man would do well
to heed this: Successful business
stands upon the inevitable tounda-
ton of morality.
God teaches man more morality
through industry than He does
through churches and schools.
Teaching gives ideas-training re-
duces ideas to habits. Teaching
gives airy nothings, training reduces
them to local habitation and a
name.
1t is the office of the church to
teach, not to train.
Tomorrow, when you go into
your business and find $4,000 that
can easily be scooped, and the law
Oh your side aud the devil, too, and
you resist the temptation, there's
where you get your training.
Human life il that great school
where men reduce to practice the
teachings Of the churches.
believe in spirituality, but it's
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