The sun., 1882-08-27
The Only Cure for MIR. Beechcr.

Mr.. BEECHER, it seems, will not visit the
White Mountains this year. 1t was long his
custom to spend month or two there every
summer, and the hotel he patronized hailed
his coming as u great advertisement of the
house. Members of his flock would follow
him, and many people had morbid Curl
osity to see him near ut hand
Besides, Mr.. BEEcHER did not visit the
White Mountains merely to enjoy the mag
nificent scenery Of that region, where the
highest peaks at the East are situated, and
where man feels that he is indeed among
great mountains, against which most Of the
emlnences this side of the Mississippi seem
tame hills only He went there to find relief
from the hay fever to which he was subject
That Is very annoying and oven distress
ing disease, which annually afllicts consid-
cradle number OF people at certain seasons; I;
at the time Of hay making, for instance, and
in the autumn. Some high mountain regions
are good for it. Hence Mr.. BEECHER's an
nual visit to New Hampshire. or course,
when he went thither it was advertised all
over the country that at the White Noun
tains, and especially at the hotel where he
put up. the victims Of hay fever could dwell
in comfort.
Hence the landlord Of that hotel is greatly
disappointed at Mr. BEEcHERs decision to
stay at Peekslsill this year. He will not get
his expected company Of Plymouth brethren,
the crowd OF people curious merely to see
MIR. BEEcHER on the piazza will not be there,
and the hay fever unfortunates will not be
directed thither hereafter as they have been
in the past; for the Plymouth pastor says
positively that he will not go, and also
that he has found a cure for his hay fever
The hay fever remedy l am using" he
writes, "is an effectual cure. This Is the Sec
ond season in which its use has enabled me
to remain at home in comfort, and that after
thirty-two years of annual recurrence"
We congratulate Mr. BEECHER on the fact
that he has at last found remedy for his
hay fever, which the medical books have told
us could only be cured by removal from the
districts where the disease prevails. Perhaps
he has outgrown the distressing malady. We
hope he will never again suffer from it.
But hay fever is merely minor physical
ailment. It's irritating, annoying, depress-
ing, rather than fatal. The season during
which it is active is not long,. 1t has not i'm
paired Mr.. BEECHER's bodily strength, nor
has it weakened his intellectual force as some
diseases do. A man who has lived to his age
without suffering from any other, any more
serious disease, has reason for great thank
fulness. Mr. BEECHER is a very vigorous and
very healthy man, and always has been, his
hay fever alone excepted So far as his physi-
cal condition Is concerned, he has been and
still is exceptionally fitted to enjoy life, and he
comes of a family distinguished for longevity.
But Mr.. BEECHER suffers from a malady
which must destroy the happiness of life for
him. 1t is moral malady deep-seated
disease. which may be more destructive of a
mans peace than any ordinary bodily all
ment He suffers from u wounded conscience,
and groans under the necessity of presenting
false face to the world. 1t is hard for q man
of his temperament to be hypocrite, and
to hide guilty secret.
Is there remedy for this awful moral
suffering? Certainly, there is one. 1t is con-
fession. That is the only cure for HENRY
WARD BEECHER.