, 1879-08-17
TWO CLERGYMEN.

Some OF the papers are Dear. .lg down hard ol
Parsou MURRAY, and the sclnlal-moncers ar
busy tearing into tatters his good name. y,
fine subject for attack has not been bsfor
them for long time, and they are making th
most of it. all sorts Of stories are aaoas abou
him, with plenty of what is made to appear 81
strong circumstantial evidence back Of them
md II half are true be is. ruined beyond recoy
cry, not only financially, but morally. But
there is no reason to believe that they nre an,
Of them true, and the '"evidence Furnished Il
Invariably found when examined to be of the
flimsicst and most untrnstworthy. The busies
tattlers are c1ergymcn who have long been
jealous of the erralic parsons popularity
and it Is found that wcarers of the
cloth are the quickest to accept as true
and keep going the most cxtraya
CANT tales Of Ills immortality. They are like vir.
| tuous seldom tempted women, who have no
| mercy for the sister under suspicion, and con
demn her, without hearing, as fallen. Murray,
it may be true, has failed as u business mau,-
badly, possbly,-but It will requira the strong:
est TESTIMONY, direct and unanswerable, to sat
| isfY his stanch friends here in Boston that he
| has failed morally. He has all along 80 con
Quoted himself as to invite criticism, and he
cannot complain 1t the worldly who hhve
| watched and followed him think they have good
| reaSon to look with suspicion upon his course.
DC has often been seen at Parker's dining With
| his amanueusis, a woman, and with other wom-
| en-, after dark; and frequently on the road be-
hind his trotter with pretty women by lis side.
| There was nothing wrong In all this; but people
would talk about it, ana gossips wag their wise
and shallow pates. He often worked late into
| the evenings iu his Tremont-street olfice,--.he
editorial rooms OF his 0o'den Rute,-accompan
led BY his amauuensis. To her he dictated bis
sermons, editorials, articles, and letters; and
hckept her constantly busy. About this there
has also been deal of reckless. silly, mischiev-
| ons talk: and If any OF his friends undertook
to warn him that he Was too careless Of his own
| reputation, and that scandal lous stories might
| easily he set aloat, which it would be awkward
to meet and perhaps impossible to wholly ex-
| plain before suspicious public, they would be
met by bis hearty assertion that he was
:'square" md wasn't afraid Of the world; that
bis lille WIS before every one; that he tried to
of scandal" but, as he thought best, and not,
perhaps, as those thought who would like to
manage for him. His friends believed in him
then; they belieye in him NOW. &c has had
hard lines for some years. The Golden Rm'e
newspaper did not long ,pay,-at least this Is the
long time to establish it; and he vas I'M patient.
He tried many Of those schemes to "push -"
the enterprise, which, untrafned aud confident
publishers had tried with other publications,
worked hard, bnt not systematically. He early
fell into debt. He was 'one of the most careless
OF men in money matters; but be had the credit
OF being one OF the most honorable. Believing
himself very shrewd md STUART, he was easily
imposed upon. In lis church enterprise be
worked bard also. ant, he preached to the big
gest congregation in town. But he mixed its
finances with It's other affairs. The change Of
the newspaper entcrorlse from q weekly to
monthly was a disastrous one. The union With
the Tn|tnre He1y1h F79unyfnn 1hacnra
very weak publication, was another mistake, and
q serious one In the opinion of men Of the
profession the monthly Goden Rm'e magazine
enterprise was doomed from The start. Into the
same zeal and dash that. be had thrown into his
o:her enterprises. andt with probably as little
reflection and collntug.of cost And all the
time ne drove bis Counecticut stock-farm bust
counts were pooled, nnKit is sad that they were
long ago most Intricate puzzle.
Tho Rev. N3Hman Hall.
BRooKL1xE, Mass, Aug. 8-7o tbs E lftor Of
the Boston Journal: As the papers have intro
dmced to the public the divorce suit of the Rev.
Newman Hall, Of London, Engl md. especially
the abusive address in Court Of Mr.. Willis (Ars.
Newman HALLS counscDy IL is only matter OF
merest justice that one who Is acquainted with
Mr.. Hall, and has had opportunities of min
Cling in bis domestic life more Intimately than
has been possible to many, should say word !
or two to the American public who are interest
ed in the character Of this celebrated Clergy |
man. Counsel in English law courts take |
strange liberties with men and women to whom |
they are in opposition. II To those OF US who
know Mr.. Newman Hal1.-bts real and true |
is purity Of lie, his almost entire |
to the work OF the ministry In
words rs those reported in !
the Globe dispatch are foullv libclous. II in |
thfs world there ever has been busb md whose
conduct towards d wife has bordered on tile
heroic, AIR. Hall is the man. have heard from
the lips OF the mother Of Mrs. Newman Hall
words to the same effect. For years Mr. Hail
has had to endure from what for long time
vas considered the mental alterations OF his
wife more than even intimate friends have ever
snown. No woman in her right mind ever
70 her huso md she was constant source OF
anxiety, not because OF any known moral de-
cct, but because it seemed 1s though ner mind
vas near to being oTerthrown. For years Mr.
da'l has watched over her day aud night with
tenderness, a devotion, self-sacrih:ng
h tndonment OF his own ease and comfort,
vth patience aud forb.arance OF which not |
nc man in ten thous md would be capable.
This woman Whose brain I verilv believe
as 4 uch at fault as her hearty has been bur
len to him 80 heavy that the wonder is the man
ould do any work at all,-7to sar nothing Of the
'erultarly trying work to which his life bad been
cToted. And after she was reported to have
eccived him, nothing but the determination OF
roman back again. and himself bearing her sins |
nd carrying her sorrows- Knowing all this, bis
rials. his heroism under them, bis purity, his |
incerty, his conservation to every tifgh and no
le thing-[ cannot allow the spotless hane of
Tcwmau, Hall to bo standered by garbIed re- Z
nrt7 in American naneFs without clnfmincr thc |