The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-20
BKECHER AT HOME.
How the Great Brooklyn Preacher
Commenced Life in the West.

| How the Great Brooklyn preacher
| Commenced Life in the West.
New York World.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
have been living at the house Of their
son. Colonel Harry Beecher, No. l24
Hicks street, Brooklyn, ever since the
sale of their house, No. 124 Columbia
Heights, which was given to MIR.
Beecher twenty years ago by the mem
bers of Plymoih church. When it be-
came an impossibility to keep both it
and the beautiful little house at Peek
skill it was deemed best TO let the city
house 90. Mr.. Beecher. though he
greatly misses the house he has lived
in so long, is disposed to take things
phllosophically and to make himself
content with what he still has. Mrs.
Beecher, on the other hand, is not sat
isfied, and she does not hesitate TO ex-
press how much she misses the life she
has lived, though her sons and daugh-
tiers do everything in their power TO
make her comfortable In a CONVEX.
sation with World reporter the 9th
err dav touching the accuracy of sew
eral accounts of their early life in the
west which have appeared recently in
the country papers, she spoke OF the
large amount of money spent during
and after the Tilton suit, but said she
could stand it with good grace, because
Mr.. Beecher had come out of the trial
SO honorably and his detractors were
now unheard of. She considered MIR.
Beecher one of the purest-hearted Of
men. A thousand more plausible pre-
texts to hang charges on could have
been found than the one that was TAX
en-. Mr.. Beecher had had foolish and
imprudent letters sent tn him. OF
course he could not help receiving
them, but be could spoil their effect
by showing them, and he always did
throw them into her lap. He had ale
ways been a man of great modesty and
delicacy and was the last person in
the world whose character should have
been assailed.
MIR. Beecher is not a concelted
man." cont;naai Mrs. Beecher; she
likes 10 be at home in his own pull
pit, and breads the first start in
new place. When he has any very
important address on hand he often
fears he will not do we'll: and if / say
that | intend to 90 and hear him
speak he is apt to say to me, don't 60
for | shall make a middle of il! /
used to be influenced to stay at home,
but have found that he is apt to do
very well when be thinks he will do
nothing"
EARLY MARRIED LIFE.
The subject then changed to the
early life of Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher In
: LawreDceburg, Ind, to which Mr..
Beecher recently alluded in sermon
and printed in the World. Mr..
Beecher had been preaching there
: two or three months before / went
out" she continued. HE had only
three hundred dollars year, but We
thought we could get along on it to-
) gether and he came to Worcester
county after me. We had been en-
, gagged seven years when We were
, married. For the first few months
, we boarded. The church was any
thing but large, and the congregation
consisted of twenty-four women, chief
ly school teachers and working
women, and one man. The man was
r afterwards accommodated. A Miss
. SAWYER officiated as deacon, but when
, we had communion, Mr.. Beecher
borrowed real deacon from another
s town. / remember a funny incident
| which occurred soon after my arrival.
!. / was no more used to my name than
i, are most young married people. and
when Mr.. Beecher one day intro
a duced me to Mrs.-on the church
Q steps, saying. 'Mrs.-,let me in.
troduce YOU to Mrs. Beecher| quite
= lost nv head and said: How do you
r do, Mrs. Beecher" | am teased &c
' this day by Mr.. Beecher about that
:. remark. A photograph of the church
i was sent to us the other day. 1t
pleased me much, and / took great
pleasure in recalling to Mr.. Beecher
. the exact spot where was introduced
on that memorable occasion"
@ Three hundred dollars a year,
the reporter suggested, sis a very
t small salary ON which TO support two
, people"
HOUSEKEEPING IN TWO ROOMS.
L Eyes. il was small and We had tC
: economic. When We had to leave
r the rooms in our clearinghouse be
causa q member of the family was