Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-23

Ev. HENRY WARD BEEcHEE's LEorrEE, LAST



EV. HENRY WARD BEECliEE LECTURE, LAST
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his former aforementioned efforts; anu
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of a diS,nnointmpnt Still Mr. Beccher held
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OUT anu hict Will very coiuiai iee'P'r'"
The lecture was somewhat as follows
We are so busy-and properly busy-with the de,
tails of every day life that we seldom look abroad
and see what Divine Providence is doing all over
the world. We see the noisy but not the silent
forces. Let>s look al the condition of the people
and within them What are the governments and
the people doing and what are the ideas that rule
the world: In Europe the governments are largely
engaged in protecting themselves There the citi-
zen il suspected and feared. II is held to be the
duty Of the government 10 maintain itself and
afterwards the community. Public feeling abroad is
that individual men are chiefly valuable the stuff
with which TO build the State and when the State
is strong and stable YOU have the ideal government.
individual man is the central figure and the nation
is his servant. In Europe the emphasis Is put on
the government of the Nation III TINS country on
the man. Abroad men are either neglected or
worked up into something which destroys the IN
dividual. In Europe causes are at work sucking up
all the industries of the people there. There are
six million armed men there. organized Tor physl-
cal violence. They non-producers whose bust
ness is destruction The annual budget for war eN-
nenscs is tfteen hundred million dollars drawn from
the industries Of the people. The wal debts OF the
world are so great that their payment Is npossiole
Dynasties have come TO depend mol on the VIII Oh
the people hut on physical force IL Is n" wonder
that the people look abroad Tor new nome LOOK
ing here they see stable government, All tue ele-
ments for the acquisition OF wealth ana, greatest
OF all, the development OF inanhoou In Inc clZen.
The great forces now working IN thls country are
those which tend TO elevate man anu make MN
better and nobler. We seek knowledge more
than that intelligence. We are developing the man
hood of intelligence among our people me inlm-
grants were eggs IN Europe; they are
haiched here. u Is MOI strange lhi tnii-
grafton comes mere rue linhiHinii 'o'nS5
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