New-York tribune., 1884-12-31
AMazED Ar Mr. BEEcHEES C0URSE
40 JusrlpiCAtfoN fOn MS OFFENSIVE HMAHh
AND PLENTY OF TIME HERETOFORE 10 TAKE II

40 JUsripiCAffON fON his OlfLNhINE h"A""
ANp rIENIy or TIME HERETOFORE 10 TAhE u
BACK.
70 me Edifor or Tho Trtbu"e'
SIR read with ama2cmcnt the report OF Mr.
Bccchcra personal explanation made from his pulpit
yc.icrIay concerning his conrso In the last campaign
and touching chiefly the tcmark made IN u campaign
speech 10y him that II every man who hal Nolh'd o
seventh Commandment should vote Tor cleveland Ne
would receive 100000 majority Ia this state Ih't IL
about all which MIR. Bccchcr's remarks apply TO- Al
lressng his congregations he lectures them IN this wiHoi
You ought TO have manness enough not 10 take an I'M
pctuous speech making special Plea and draw 1t INT"
another al plicatiun. IL shame for YOU To nave
done it," IT the speech was npenoS' hot-hc"i'd anu
not believed be ttue II never should have been mde
and having been made should have been apoog@cl Il
long since Mr. Beecher long ago had time enough 20
cool OF and to consider calmly the remark that he had
made lie certainly has right to lecture his eonere
cation and charge them with making wrong appica-
ton of the statement Iladn by him. IL IL mann ana m
biauous, and admits oi hut one "pP'"''i"h' an" '
Is that majority OF 100000 voters In No@-fork have
been guilty OF violating the seventh Commandment
ME- I5eecher adds: made the speech MAT Thought
the common people would understand lie is the re-
puted author of lecture entitled TIC Reign OF the
Common People" lie has claimed to have been their
particular defender Does he suppose tha they desire
n rule or be ruled by appeals in O wee, or that the
common people are not sensitive to the insult which
mon uncommon
Referring to this remark and tile disturbance which II
has occasioncd ia his churr. Nr Beechcr says: don
know how extensive tie trouble is except from the news
papcrs 1t Is only accidentally that two, three
six pcraps eight have been mentioned referring to
those who complancd ana n there are thirty, Tory oi
hitX pcyholdcr- don't know who they are don't care
about knowing" Tue impression thus conveyed 20 the
casual ewspaper reader S that Mr. Beecicr knows little
or nothing any dissatisfaction III MS chuch concern
mo his course. excepting what hc has read IN the news
p1ucr- al which This being the fdr ruiiOrt
Of his remarks when hastily read Is 10 not IN order 10 IN
auire whether not true that Mr. Bccchcrs brother
thr Rey Enward Boechcr his assistant pastor the Rev.
T.. HALLIDAY, and "a large number of his oldest and
trnrst friends. members ol MS church ana cnugcgdon
have made direct complaint to n. and that thry did en-
traa HIM to dcsis sake Of che church from the
rinonS course taken hy him n the last campaign This
question is suggested without satisfactory assurance
OF facts which warrant II.
Mr. Beccier adds: II the best going 10 leave
don't let them sneak; let them come
openly to my face and tell and ]
Will give them my blessing '; aud again: II
Won want me Ou have bat you have hot 90 re
ccive M. rot on ptchlork. but ON the palms cd your
hands" Il insult to the pc-t men VINO have been
members Nlr. Bccchcrs church o. suggest That thcy
would sneak under circumstances II they leave
Tie clrcl they VIII 20 because they DC not nave COIL
dence in Mr.. Bcecher moral guide. ana not having
any They are likely 10 seek his blessing; they are moi
Ukly To- receive him iitciolk they bear with
lie OF usefulness 20 dispense with him nj mcn- o a
wichfork they might Justly 10 In tAe case ~ "a
Younger man. ALERT A. AHHuIT.
Nelr-I YORK. Dec 90 l--i