The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-18
BEECHER'S BRAVAD0.
REMARKABLE UrTERANCES OF
THE PLYMOUTH PULPIT
FOUNDER.
Heresy, or BIasphemy :-Or Are
These the wild rawlings OF an
irresponsible Lunatic?

New YORK, December 6.-The virtu-
GUS Mr.. Beecher seems to be gradually
shaking off the old fashioned doctrine OF
the Congregational body Of which ne is q
member, and striking out in his sccus'
toned sensational way. All doctrine
hangs lightly upon his shoulders, and At
has long been easier to tell from his pub
lie uttersnces what he does not believe
than what he does. He INDUCED in q
vast deal OF swearing to-day on the doc
trines OF the Trinity and OF hell.
Speaking of the Trinity, he said he be-
lieved there we're three persons united ia
one God head; but il any one should ask
him why he believed it, he should tell
him he did not know anything about it,
only that 1t was easier TO believe that
which he thought co!ncided WITH the doc
trines of the New Testament than 10
deny it. Orthodoxy says that men must
believe in the Trinity or they cannot
come into the church That is called
orthodoxy, but he called it heaLhenism.
at is not an easy thing" said MIR.
Beecher "for an honest, conservative
man to know just what to preach, and
what not TO preach. A man who values
morality, and who has the good OF his tel-
low man a! heart, can not be careless as
to the things he ought to teach. II was
SAID that Adam was created perfect. 1t
was also said that Adam sInued, and that
in consequence OF that SIN the whole bu-
man race fell. The human race had eX-
lsted on the earth tor thousands and
thousands of years, and had gone on
propsgsling and multiplying until all
The waves that had rolled in upon the
shore during those centuries did not con-
tain drops enough, nor the sands of the
sea PARTICLES enough, nor all the
figures of the arithmetic numbers
enough, to compute the preface, to say
nothing OF the great history Of the hu-
man race. The numbers of the human
race were actually beyond computation,
and fOr thousands and thousand and
thousands of years they had been born
into the world, had lived and struggled,
and finally died and gone-whereH If
YOU tell me that they have all gone to
Heaven, my answer vii, be that such n
sweeping OF mud INTO Heaven would de.
file its purity, and cannot accept that.
If you tell me they have gone to bell
then | swear by the Lord Jesus Christ,
whom ! have sworn to worship torcYg',
that YOU will make an infdel Of me.
The doctrine that God mas been for
thousands of years peopling this earth
with human beings during period
three-fouGths of which WAS not illUmln"-
ted by an altar or church, and IN places
where u vast population OF those peop @
are yet without light, is TO transform tho
Almighty into monster more hldeous
than Satan himself and | swear by all
that is sacred that | will never worship
Satan, though he should appear dressed
in royal robes and seated on the throne
of Jehovah. Men may say, You VIII
no. 20 to Heaven A Heaven presided
over by such desmon ss that, who has
been popping this world with millions
OF human beings, and then sweep
ing them of into hell-rot like
dead flies. but without taking the
trouble even to kill them and g,OsLing
and laughing over their eternal misery,
is not such heaven as | want to 90 TO.
The doctrine is too horrible. | can not
believe it, and wot't. They say the
saints in heaven are so happy that they
do not mind the torments ol the damned
in hell. But what sort OF saints must
they be who could be happy while look
ing down upon the horrors OF the bot
tomless pit? And by the blood OF Christ
| denounce this doctrine. Blythe wounds
in His hands and in his side | abhor 1t.
By HIS groans and agony ! sbhor and
denounce it rs that hldeous nightmare OF
theology.