Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-06-01
Mr.. Beecher's Lecture,

ono VI tno inI9osl tuht nus Uttu Ill tHo iooh
in years. A large number of extra seat
L had been provided, all of which were filled
and number of chairs were placed upor
= the stage, which were also filled. 1her'
were seats enough for all, however. and by
quarter past eight, all were seated. Tht
lecturer was introduced BY Rev. l.. o Bras
tow, who said
Gentlemen and Ladies The man who
ia to address US, tonight, is one WHOSE
ministry has been prominently ministry
of Wealth" to many souls and many lives.
introduce to you Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er.
Mr.. Beecher advanced to the front OF
the platform and was greeted with hearty
applause. His hair has grown whittier and
fifteen years since he was in Burlington. but
We fancy that most of his hearers were I'M
able to discover the marks of the burden OF
years and sorrows, which some writers have
described. He seemed in vigorous preser
yation for man of his years.
His subject was The Ministry OF Wealth. y
The lecture has been described as "a sum
mary of Mr.. Beecher's philosophy of reli-
sioh' inorality anu poi''ieai eoohon''
was Jus'inca'ion OIL the aecu'nuia'ion vi
wealth Tor NOBLE uses, IN inc Improvement
and identifying CT our homes, in the found
ing oil useful institutions, and IN making
I
the distinction broader between that barpar-
Ism from which, through the accumulation
oil property by industry and enterprise. man
has advanced to higher civilization. The
declaration OF Christ that 1t is easier Tor
camel to go through the eye oil needle than
lor flch man 10 enter INTO the hinguom Oh
heaVen, ne consiuereu meant LOT time
anu condition oil society IN which the rich
men were Tor the most part Roman oppres-
sors and tax -gatherers, and not in the sense
IN which 1t is commonly taken, for our day,
IN which poverty is moro dangerous than
riches. There is danger in riches, and
there is danger in everything danger in
being born and all after that is distribut
ed danger: but he found in poverty no
safeguard against pride, coyetousness or
meanness.
Mr.. Beecher developed the process of the
production OF wealth from the rudest forms
oil acquisition. in the carly stages OF society,
TO the highest and latest. This involved
also the development OF the house from the
hollow log ans hut to the homo OF modern
eNillAalion ana high cuiture'-a process
WORKING toward morality. Inc incuication
=. seii-oeniai through inuus'ry 'ne neees-
'',0 nv i""' y. 'iu'n' nun
anu nue.s .no u'S''n,'ion oe'"een
'no naming Vi tn0 iamiiS anu 'ne 'eaonins
- '"u.I"' INV -',"'''n' y. inoi"ii''
oA 'ne s'ounU ou' ie"."'"s up 'oie
''o Vi 'o''s .'n WIN oe"u
- ''Aen up III 'urn anu .iea'od WIN
"Df'' "ne'noi IL was ieahS
'non'S - strongly Oh vermont aua'ence'
peinapo' O' que'''on' 'nero "ie
III "ni'n nen n0eu W oe per
u"U'u !" sis0 inoio a''en'ion W 'ne ge'
ing Vi wealth. anu u'geu u MAKE gener-
ous ou'ia's Vi lneif means On themselves
anu 'n'ii 'aniiie' III pro'iuinR goou
',O'ues anu PHEASANT MONIES anu 'ne means
vi A"pi' oui'ure anu com'or''-'n's' al least.
may not NC one Vi 'nein'
" ne'.nei 'usses'eu 'nis'
M oo''' ~
""'' a'n "0ou' 'oui
'iS '0-uaS' "nu LUG pi"oes "fo
very rafe 'ha' sno" 50 many Pheasant
hohes' anu 'ne MARKS OF so high an average
Oh TASTE and culture as this. other and
'noie neeueu lessons were lorcioly put