The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-07

the trustees shall meet They shall not find
me stumbling block in their way. not al
all If l supposed, however, that there was
q majority of the members of this church
If there was an important minority
that felt that they could no longer
derive sustenance and benefit from my
preaching, and yet did not wish to
GO away, l would relieve them. Not
IN irritation, but in the truest Christian
manhood. will go and will study the peace
of the church in every way 1 can when 1
am not the pastor of it. But, on the other
hand, ii the great majority of the church
wish me to stay, / will do that and nothing
shall drive me away from you. came
when young and am yet young-old. and
Will stay, and the mere question of discord-
ant views shall not make defect in me
toward you, and my support-don't trouble
yourselves about that; can 1--we on q great
deal less than I do now; and / don't know
but my example in coming down to a more
reasonable way of living would be q gospel
to many of you, anyhow ILsughter.l But
let Us be manly and have a fair under
standing with each other. II you want you
can have me, but you have got TO receive
me not on pitchfork but in the palm of
your hand. / have loved you, and | have
always worked by love here. 1 never laid a
pipe in my life and never will. have never
gone about to consult how to fix this, that
or the other. have left YOU the most abso.
lutte frankness and truth with you. and that
shall continue as long as live and am
among you.
And now, in regard to all these difficult
ties. Everything that has hurt you or
grieved you / am sorry for, if it was my
fault, and fo- you, If ii was your fault /
may not agree exactly as to particulars, but
l am conscious of my imperfections, and
shoCld be very conceited man If / should
say that l went through this campaign with
out making any mistake, but from my stand
point things leok one way; from yours they
look another way entirely. / was for votes,
and man that il speaker and is &C
ouainted with human nature knows that it
is . great deal different when q LAWYER adj
dresses the Bench and when he addresses
the jury. If L had been making a
speech to you | should have
made 1t with Attic purity. l
should have endeavored to square every
thing; but when l went out to ceunteraot
Ben Butler laughter ] made the speech
that thought the common people would
understand and that would win them to the
cause of truth and righteousness You must
not, therefore, put your Attic scale of
measurement upon my speeches too Sc
verely, l am quite willing to be sand
papered a'good deal in matters, but this
say: Ny general course approves my jadg-
ment today, and l don't believe | N sde
half as many mistakes as you think l did.
But Tor the mistakes [ made am sorry, and
of everybody who has suffered by them
ssk his pardon. Is that enough? at any
rate, there is no Misunderstanding take it.
And now one woro more, in a little differ
ent strain. | am your servant for Christs
sake. Servant" in the original, is ''slsve,"
l understand, and am pervsded with the
consciousness that no man goes up so fast as
the man that humbes himself for Christ's
sake-for loves sake For that am willing
to be or to do almost anything; but for any
other reason than because l love you, I
won't do thing--not thing. I stand on
that gospel and on that truth. 1 have done,
l have said Just as imprudent things and
done just as many Of them, in the old anti
slavery days, bat you didn't care then. Oh,
no. Now it is different. But it makes no
difference, brethren. Hew me with your
tongues, but love me; rebuke me, but love
me- differ infinitely, but love me and help
me, and l will love you and will trust
you as / have in the days gone by, and when
you and have finished our short warfare
for ] am admonished by the whitened he ads
here that We shall very soon. one larger part
of US, appear in the other life-when l meet
you in the presence OF Jesus Christ we shall
smile into each others face and recognize
the poorness Of that life in which, while the
grandeur was going on around about US, we
we're led to think about these little intellect
ties and slips of the days as the days went
on. For Gods cake, for Christ's sake, for
the sake Of men perishing in ignorance, and
for my sake-if may plead the least OF mo-
! tives-let US hold on our way all the purer
and the stronger and the better for the Slight
misunderstanding which has come over US.
l need to be humbled. / am humble. You
need to be humbled. trust yon also are
| humbled. Let us pray.