The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-26
BEECHER

IN. way an English Journal ''>ises Up
,..Fiymouth Fsstor-nene,rekel rpaar
- the Verdict IL Arrives At-Severe bui
40, wholly Unmerited Criticism.
The real truth about Mr. Beecher might
=. told in very few words; but, with on,
two doubtful exceptions, none Of thes,
Wis are 10 be found in. the volume be
,,,p rs says the Saturday Review concern.
=, lyman Abbott's sketch Of the Ply.
,,auth church pastor. \ STUMP orator OF
ia pulpit. leading member Of that school
o,American preachers, who, like some no
.,-s,ps Nonconiormist pastors in this
.,1atry. are politicians first, sectarians in
~ seconi place, and Christians al best i'm
ne third, Mr.. Bsecheg has the virtues
~ the taults-bOth feminine rather than
-nssculne-of the school of emotional de.
rIsimers TO which he belongs. His sympa.
INV is only less ready and less
r,aSament than his hatred, and
cs;tber IS directed by knowledge
nor Is the latter ever controlled BY any
Ting deserving the name of Christian
Marty. 4 puns,er in the pulpit, a fanatic
On The platform, launching constantly into
coarse abuse, INDUCING in a sort OF humor
more offensive To English than TO American
taste. he is undoubtedly u successful man,
mt hi. success is much the same in kind as
mat of Gen" Booth or OF Messrs. Moody
4 Sankey. He appeals to the same sort of
IGNORANT, ill-Tegulsted emotion, takes the
same pains to vulgarize religion and bring
bi, preaching down TO the level
of the mos. numerous cougress.
Lao aV,.f ..f -.
r,ise their minds to higher and nobler
standard. OF his harrangues in Euglsnd
dnrinr the civil war, Mr. Beecher Is, il
seems Unfortunately vain, and ne is furious
Al the attacks they called forth-attacks
occasionally vulgar and offensive, no
doubt, but in no case more Objectionable
man his own habitua language. IL is
Characteristic that the Liverpool placards,
of which DR.. Abbott bitterly COM
pains consists chiefly of extracts from
Mr., BseCher's own speeches and sermons
language which, were not Englishmen
much more tolerant than their transatlan-
tic kinsmen, would have insured him a far
s,ormier recention than even in the town
most distinguished for its southern lean
inEs, he actually received. He was hooted
by a part of his audience, an American no
semblsge, under the like provocation,
would have emphasized its disapproyai
with missiles heavier than rude taunts
and awkward questions. Both the
orator and his psnegyrst display in one
passage striking and almost incredible
ignorance OF English customs and charac-
ter, attaining that at the Liverpool meet
ing his opponents came armed with revol-
yers and bowie-knives. and THAT some of
his partisaps threatened them with similar
ha k.
ton even for the latter statement; Is we do
not remember that any of Mr.. Beecher's
friends we're handed over to the police, or, il
arrested, were visited with the very heavy
sentences which such an offense would
have received from an English
court. Mr.. Beecher's aboltionism may
have been rs earnest and courageous as Dr.
Abbott proclaims il; one thing is certain,
that he rendered no service In the cause he
espoused AS violent as Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips, he did not, like that distinguished
champion OF humanity, almost atone for
the virulence of his abuse by prolonged la
bors and personal perils Of the
grayest kind incurred in the cause
nor did he, like Garrison, give life
OF patient, s,esdfast. devoted work, under
every possible discouragement to a purpose
which even those who thought it mistaken,
could not deny to be noble. He was one
of those whose language only served
to discredit his cause with thoughtful and
temperate men. He contributed to inhame
beyond control the angry passions of both
sides which precipltated civil war; but he
cert ainly rendered no other help to the
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