The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-31
MIR. BEECHER ON HATING.
with "Abhor That Which IL EVIL"
for His Text, He shows Where
Evil Is Found-And Tells How the
public Regulates the Character Of
Newspapers, Making Them Good

Il.
Church Sunday morning before the
usual large audience, and selected as his
text, "Abhor that which Is evil"
In connection with the text Mr..
Beecher said: so then, at last, hatred has
got a place among the Christian graces.
1t is the easiest grace OF the whole circle,
and it does not require conversion to
bring man into the exercise OF it. 1t is
one of the few graces in which everything
is selt.chosen-one of those graces which
never backshdes. When, therefore, we
are commanded 10 hate we are all ready,
and ready ali the time and all OF US.
Hatred OF that which we accept as evil Is
instantaneous. Men have to form instant
judgment; they cannot wait to deliberate
and there Is a sort of m nd-reading when
men meet men which we call prejudice
but which is essential to the sa o conduct
of lite. So there Is immediate hatred Tor
some things-sOme things which we
abhor instantly-and this, too, ls Indls-
pensable. There are many things that are
not permissible, that carry such shock
that men are driven away from them;
tuere are certain things regarded as hate
full by universal experience, such as
wing, trescbery, cruelty, lust, avarice-
ia uLner folks. All these are hateful, and
men turn with adherence from them.
IL NAV be asked, ais it not dangerous to
introduce INTO the soul a principle 50
dangerous TO chsrity?" And 1t certainly
is dangerous 1t is like fire; without fire
the universe would cease, yet many
mans house SIS burned down by fire, and
So. although hatred is cruel and is for
ei.n to the Gospel, nevertheless we
NUT have it with all It's risks aud all
Us pcrlls. 1t Is sometimes possible
O hate the thi q and not the person who
Is t . embodiment of it, but not often.
You cannot abhor the fang and not ao-
nor the serpent that carries the lang.
The great wicKednesses which spring out
OF the boiling csldron of the passions and
of which the world for thousands of
wears has had ample opportunity toJudge
and which have been pronounced dan
gerous-of all these great mischleis we
are to stand IN sucn horror rs to refuse to
reason about them and to repel them
forthwith. There are other hatreds
easy to Us, but not so essential. Men
find it not at all trouble to hate
a jew or Rosman Catholic, or a DEM
ocrst if he is u Republican, or a
Republican if he is u Democrat.
We abhor man IN the same line OF ou-
slness rs ourselves that succeeds by little
arts that we don't know how to practice;
we abhor anything that stands over
AGAINST our seitishness, but men may be
rluttinous, cruel, crafty, in every way
wicked, and If it does not touch US too
nearly we say, "Yes, | suppose he has
some faults" so in points where we
should have charity we have horror ana
hatred, and we are charitable when we
should have horror and hate. To-day
the r-eat sections OF Christians are-look-
ing at them at Understanding over
against each other with no common road
between them. Religion to very large
extent is dIsfgured by the artillery
which it employs against religion. Now,
does any man suppose that God hates
any sect or any man who Is SEEKING
according TO all hls means, t. Know
the truth and do right? DO you suppose
be sbhors him2 And what rs that tenn
peratlre of Christianity whereby the
Greek Church DISTINGUISHES the Roman
or the Roman the Greek, or both set
spsrt the Protestant, or by which the
Protestant denominations separate them
selves over against each ether and fence
the road with prejudices aud all manner
of envyings, jealousies and hatreds
"Abhor that which is evil. TINS man
don't believe in the Trinity, and II man
believe in that he is all wrong. Then
here is the question Of stonement; AT
the moment a man gives that up he fall:
back on the doctrine OF regeneration, anc
if he gives that up he is a morallst, and
if he gives that up he IS naturalist, snc
if he is that he rejects the Bible, and Sc
become a theist, and, failing that, is ar
atheist, and as such is only fit for thu
devil. Lsug liter
Familiarity with evil destroys sensi'
bilitv, and with sensibility, safety. A
man that sits in our courts day after day
hearing cases of SANDER, or scandal, cj
wickedness, or that gluts day after day
over carrlon literature in his tavorlt'
newspaper, wears out his senslblllty, snc
/ although such a man may not fall int
wicked observation-disclosures it takes gres
/ deal more force to be wicked than SOM
men have eot-he will not appreclst
virtue. 81 will lose his horror at vice.
So. if q Young man wants TO see tn
| i n StAtA SpnA
tors saloon, and sees the gamblers AM
hears their talk, and enters into the spiri
of their lives, although he may neve
gamble, he loses his purity in thus seeln!
lie, or il he goes into other places les
nameable but more common and NOR
dangerous If men go into those places, a
they profess, because they wan: to Sc
human life. want to know what goes on
| can tel! them what is going on-disln
tegratiou is going on inside Of them
moral deterioration. want OF sensibillt
and horror At evil.
There is another class of men that
in danger. and those are the men VIII
find pleasure in an impure o
highly sensational literature; me
who enjoy a novel that is like EnglS
gsme-never ripe untilit is rotten; me
that ike novels of the French school
To eloat over such things Is to awake
hell in your own soal. Some men ms
do things without injury that woul
harm another. Young people sometime
complain that they are kept away fror
places, and say that respectable peopl
90 there-their teacher or their minister
Why, minister may go to place wher
his Pensioners would 60 to the devil
they went. There is another kind G
literature in which there.is danger, Sal
that is the daily newspaper. l thin