St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-09

dom from him. If one might Innocent
ly have wished to see Shadrach, Me-
shech, or Daniel in his day, how much
more to see one from hotter furnace,
from a den of more terrible lions, or
the very dragged edge of Despair"
with only such Odor of scorched woolen
or such rents in the cuticle, as each in
his charity, or his lack of it may sup
pose to exist.
EXTREMES MEET.
Messrs. Moody and Swing, the ex-
treme tips of the two evangelical wings
of the church, both treated Mr.. Beech
er as brother beloved, but we hear of
no special demonstration of catholicity,
charity, or affection along the line of
the wide range between them. On
learning that Mr.. Beecher was coming,
Mr.. Moody invited him to preach in his
church and he did so. 1t was filled in
ten minutes after the doors opened, and
the hundreds on hundreds outside might
stand there and look at the brick walls
and locked doors, or seek for amuse-
ment elsewhere. At the first lecture,
McCOrmick's Hall had room for but part
of those wishing to hear, so the lecture
committee tried to tempt the
TRUSTEES OF THE TABERNACLE
to open it's doors that the people might
have opportunity for once to look and
to listen. Most of them appeared to
be willing, but Mr.. Case proved ''case"
hard to handle, and some others appar-
emily set some store by their virtue
and faith. One of them at first asked if
$1,000 could be paid for its use of an
Orbitant, and $500, or twelve and one
half per cent of the profits was offered.
And while some Ofthe committee thought
this proposition would open the doors,
and Mr.. Carpenter, of the Lecture Com
mittee, Suggested that there would be
less criticism by quietly accediAg to the
public demand than attempting to
thwart it," Mr.. Case replied that ''if
499, 900 out of the 100000 people in
: Chicago should present a petition to let
Beecher into the Tabernacle he should
say Non
OTHER AND UNEXPLAINABLE REASONS.
Mr.. Case said there were other rea-
sons which he did not care to explain
why the Tabernacle could not be used
to let Mr.. Beecher preach in, and when
further pressed, he said that when sub
scirptiOns were being taken, considera-
BILE sums were subscribed with the un-
derstanding that the building should
only be used for revival purposes. Mr.
Carpenter suggested that no such OBJ,
lection could possibly hold against Mr.
!. Beecher, for his would undoubtedly be
the greatest revival sermon ever preach
ed in the Tabernacle; whereupon Mr.
Case said that it was against just sucf
an emergency that the restriction in the
subscription was aimed, for at the time
J. the subscriptions were being taken
there was public talk of buying larg'
/, hall for Swing, and it was to preven
the Tabernacle being bought or used b,
the Swing people that the pledges wer
given, and the same reason would hol,
against Beecher.
THIS UNWILLING OF UNEXPLAINABLE
REASONS
= warmed Mr.. Carpenter to make wha
4la,~1f
remarks ;" but Mr.. Carpenter replie
y that ''as he had labOred with zeal an
love in securing the $50,OOO guarante
fund which enabled Prof. Swing to re
e, main in Chicago in an independeI
- church he might be excused maxim
some pretty severe remarks But the
r were more lively than severe, consist
ing simply in asking Mr.. Case what wa
r, to be done with the building when the
were through with it, and upon NJ
Case saying that it would be converte
not theologically we presume-ini
stores, Mr.. Farwell being put under
contract that it should be used for L
public purposes after the cOmmittt
VI were through with it, Mr.. Carpent'
suggested that the stores should
baptised,' or, better still, be thorough
- fumigated, so the commercial and r.
ligious spirit should not come in col
'' tact"
A QUESTION OF FAITH NOT OF MORAL
So it seems that the question wi
the Tabernacle people was one main
of faith, and not much so of cOnce
about morals. In another explanati,
est it is said "There seems to be an il
preston in the community that Il
committee declined on account of &
cloud on the Plymouth pastor, fearil
U.s. the result would be injurious to t
ay work now in progress. This is not tru
While a great many of the Christi
: people of Chicago, especially the IL
lowers of Mr.. Moody, think that n
Y Beecher has been 'imprudent,' th'
main objection to him is on account
tine tine his theology: his teaching is the a
P: tipodes of the evangelists." Yet n
ice Moody did not fear Mr.. Beecher, but
= his innocence of danger from dOul
= full theology, invited him to preach
.. his church. But it shows through
, in in Cases unexplained reason that it "
His Mr.. Swings bad theology much mi
lav- than Beecher's that the Taberna
arS- IL