Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-02-09
NUMBER 46
Eli Sees Beecher.
From The Mter- Ocean.

Erie cars, after lecture in Hornells
vile, | met my old friend Henry
Ward Beecher. Dir. Beecher looked
rough and ruddy. His face blushed
rosy with health, and his eyes gilt.
tered in way indicat ing anything
but torpid liver.
After talking a few moments, [
turned to the great preacher and
asked him this question
What is this new doctrine you are
advocating about no everlasting hell
for the wicked and depraved? Why
did you announce your belief in NO
perpetual he II, Mr.. Beecherp
WELL replied Mr.. Beecher, Il had
particular reasons for doing it, but I
don't want to give them
Don't you want newspaper men to
know them ? I asked.
Yes said Mr.. Beecher, Il dc want
newspaper men to know my reason
for declaring no everlasting hell for
the wicked and depra ved, but 1 don't
care about the churches knowing
them
well, why did you come out
against everlasting punishment-tell
me, won't you 2 said coaxingly.
Yes, Eli, will tell you my reason
for doing SO, but don't let it go any
farther. You know continued Mr..
Beecher, that you journalists have
been abusing me good deal lately p
yes
Especially Mr.. Dana, of the .Sun p
yes, notice Mr.. Dana devotes
column or two to you every day.
said!
tWell, I announced the idea that
there was no everlasting hell for the
wicked, just to please you journalists
TO throw a little sop to you, you
know, to keep you good natured.'
And then Mr.. Beecher shut up both
eyes and lau ghed all to himself.
A $4,000 HOUSE.
A little while afterward, in a moro
serious mood, Mr.. Beecher informed
INC r..tlOtfes' -, = 8
600 house on his farm, hes,ys, where
1 can spend my old age in peace and
quietness.'
L reduced my own salary, said Mr..
Beecher, from $4,000 to $4,000,
because 1 think $4,000 is enough to
pay me, these times. It is all I earn.
You know I lecture good deal. and
I feel that my church should not pay
me as much as they would if devo-
ted my whole time to her interests
Talking about lectures, Mr.. Beech.
er said that he used to lecture in
1850 for SIS and $40 per night. 'And
once,' he said, Il went from Lawrence
burg, Ind, where I was preachingj
clear to Boston, and delivered a lecs
ture before the Mechanics Institute
for S25 and expenses Time has
changed things some, for last night,
at Titusville, the receipts at Mr..
Beecher's lecture were 5000.
Four MEN WITH NINETEEN
W1vEs.-A gentleman in this city,
who has every facility for knowing
whereof he speaks, and who is thor
oughly reliable, states that recently
there were four men living in this
county within six miles of each other
who have been just and lawful hus-
bands Of nineteen wives. One has
been married six times, another FIVE,
and the two remaining, four each.
Two Of the nen have died recently,
but the other two are still living, one
with his sixth wife and the other with
his fourth. If anybody is disposed to
doubt this tement, the gentleman
can furnish the proof. But it isn't
this way all over Meoklenburg
County.-Charlotte Observer.
The first thing is to make your
sermon plain. Mr.. Bloomfield preach
ed on the text, The fool hath said In
his heart There is no God Wishing
to find out how it pleased his people,