Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-29
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. .PL LYMOUTH'S PASTOR Makes A Personal State
 ment. HIS COURSE IN THE CAMPAIGN. Sent Out To G0unteract
 Butler. AMID A BLAZE OF GLORY President Arthur Will Leave The Capital. 
AMID A BLAZE OF GLORY
TO OFFSET BEN BUTLER

Henry Ward Beecher Goes On The
 Stump Interesting Personal
 Statement From the Great Preach.
 CT.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-At the close of his sermon this morning Rev. Henry Ward Beecher made Q personal statement to his congregation He said that for the first time in, the thirty eight years of his ministry in Plymouth church there was enough of 8 disagreement in the church to need notice. The disquiet was not on account of his min istry, for no one had charged him with intro ducing politics into his sermons. He had discussed slavery from the pulpit because it was permanent question and involved the necessity of education, but the present ques- ton was a small one and would of itself soon pass away and therefore he had not thought it fair to vex those among them who differed in the pulpit. But he felt when the great Republican party had failed to crown it's career by bringing in unity of sentiment North and South that like Moses he who had helped bring the people within sight of the promised land was to die with out entering in. He would gladly have given such welcome to the South as to have made one of the great candidates southern man. Feeling as he did after long consideration he he never went into anything by halves. (Ap- plaud) He threw his life, his reputation, his influence to the winds. They were noth- ing to him if only the country might live again in absolute harmony. He would not say he had not said things during the cam paign that he ought to have said differently. But after he had been with them forty years they should have had confidence enough in him and manliness enough not to take ar impetuous speech and draw it out in every base application. It was a shame for them to have done so (appIause). As for himself it was shame for him to have said anything that should lead them into such 8 mistake On no other point was he so sensi- tive as that it should be supposed that he in any way undervalued the sanctity of chastity and the privacy of household life. On that subject time would do him justice and he had 8 right to expect different treatment from them. As to his political judgment he looked back upon it with approval. As to what had been said about persons intend :, ing to leave the church, if any preferred other ministry they should have his blessing whenever they chose to go. So far as pew renting was concerned, all he cared was that the charitable work of the church might not
 
 rebuke him by reducing the income (applause).. He came to the pastoratee of the church on $500 8 year and could live on that now. But if he supposed there was even large minority who felt no longer benefited by his preaching, he would resign If they wanted him to stay they must receive him with open hands He re- gretted if anyone's feelings had been hurt and for any mistakes he has=made he apolo- gized But they should remember that in speaking to 8 crowd one addressed jury rather than judge and used less formal Ian guage. They should not lay the street rule of their measurement too severely upon a. speaker who sent out to counteract Ben. Butler. Gaughter.) He was their servant for Christ's sake and for love's sake and he trusted in their love for him. Many of them would soon be with him in the other life, where they would smile in remembering how they let the grandeur of life go by while thinking of little infelicities and slips. For the sake of men perishing in ignorance let them hold on their way all the purer and stronger for the slight misunder- standing that has come and gone.
 Mr Beecher was warmly congratulated by a host of friends at the close of the services.