The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-30
Ono OF the Becchcr Family In ProfessIouai
Difficulties.


SACO, July 15.-In personal appearance
perhaps the most pleasant looking clergyman
in York County. Maine, is the pastor Of thu
He is somewhat below the medium height very
we'll formed, with light hair beard side Whisk-
ers and mousiaGhe. remarkably intelligent
author OF .Unce Toms Cabin.' He Ell Is about out
80 years old. and came to the church alluded
10 three year., ago on trial. Before being duly
Installed. which ceremony occurred last winter
Mr. stowe had to pass through some crises that
able.
The new minister did not discover until he
adnlihistcred his first sacrament that his con-
ErCSutton he'd idcns not usually held about
the wine oi the last supper. They believe in
common with many New England churches.
that the Saviour dispensed on that occasion an
unt"rmcnted wine and accordingly have thus
Gommiemorated the occasion for years, When
communion service he held with his new
H"arG a tF aIio were somewhat horriiled. and
murmurS. At the next communion Mr..
stowe announced that lie could not con-
wise. and the result was that it was not nd
mlnisterrd at all. But in the interest Of har-
mony he finally consented 90 abandon his in;
wa, manly sacrifice. Notwithstanding this
G9 aiSsj nGTi'1 of the church re,
Many thought thay his views were t.'' rather
s lc had beon arr %' in y hc m eGHn H
and was very ANXIOUS to be settled over this
congregation, many OF whom were warmly at
tachcd To him. The salary. il IL quite certain.
vas no temptation TO him. for his predecessor
lett on oi acr I 81 is sm4ne7s Whatever
since then, it caEuot be doubted he was about
as lib,rnt NJ TINT limo rs his relative Of Plym-
o,ui,h nHrrn I9e 2mly way to silence the fnc-
ined lcforr a sort Of t,"st committee before be-
in+ installed, Accordingly in November last
Mr. stow, passed the examination, and before
the council read q lengthy account Of his life,
yriscituIrs, and spiritual experiences"
lief. THIS was perfectly satisfactory to the
church authorities present. md he was INSTALL
ed though ten OF the foremost deacons voted
In his Discourse the young clergyman stated
mat he had been OF Il rowing disposition and
Harvard College he read Herbert spencer be-
came deeply Interested in that authors the
Dries, and, to use his own words. his mind be-
cam" filled with the poison Of doubt. As these
doubts increased and filled his mother with the
deepest anguish, h9 determined to try travel.
H. went to Bonn, in Germany. Here he met
with an experience which he never forgot to
dH0IGi ms own words 2gn md came back
he did not state. though his hearers and others
would have been highly gratllcd to know what
GXltaaordinary thing happened to change his
., Mr. stowe has very little orntorical power. In
me- me- ruiHt ms ,anprPraneo i, rather against
Hg reads his sermons. and Is Mt his weakest
Mnen cHtemporiZlng, for the moment his eyes
leave his speech. hut it Is only lair 10 add that
moro olatorrnl, ability might well envy. More
over, his voice does not have that sanctimoni-
Gus twanR which SO many clergymcn affect ,ho
moment they enter the pulpit, nor does he ever
DRIFT OF int" tho cheap drivel OF meaningless.
Mr. stowe is a firm believer in the theory Of
evolution but he appears TO adopt the very
modified form. which can be made not to con-
ilict with the iundamcntai principles Of the
Christian religion. he does not accept tho