The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-09
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PLAN BEECHER
MEMORIAL
10 Be Permanent Reminder
of the Great Brook
lyn Preacher.

NEW YORK, March S.-A great
mass meeting was held in the Acad-
emy of Music in Brooklyn tonight for
the purpose of raising funds to erect
memorial in honor of Henry Ward
Beecher, the founder of Plymouth
church and for forty years it's pastor.
Many hundreds who were turned away
from the doors gathered at an over
flow meeting in Plymouth church.
Mayor Seth Low presided and among
the prominent persons who paid trib-
ute to the memory of the great preach
er were former President Grover Cleve-
land, Justice j. D. Brewer, of the Unit
ed States supreme court; the Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills, of Plymouth
saulus, of Chicago.
The meeting was opened with pray
er by the Rev. Dr. Reese, of Macon.
Ga, and the Rev. DR.. Dickey, of the
American church in Berlin. Favorite
hymns were rendered by the Plymouth
choir. Mayor Low delivered the intro
ductory address and then introduced
former President Cleveland, who spoke
at considerable length.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills. pastor Of
scope of the Beecher memorial move
ment and the plans of the committee.
This memorial movement includes
several different features. First, to
condemn in whole or in part the block
on which Plymouth church is situated,
as little public park, to be named
the Henry Ward Beecher park. Many
favor the removal of Mr.. Beecher's re-
mains to this park. 1t is also proposed
to erect Beecher memorial hall to
contain the pulpit from which Mr..
Beecher sold the slave girl, the pulpit
from which Lyman Beecher preached
his sermon on dueling the Sunday
after the death of Alexander Hamil-
ton, and the sermon on Temperance
which developed into the Washington
movement with the manuscripts of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mr.. Beechers
sister, together with the portraits, pho
tographs, paintings of Mr.. Beecher
and the epoches in his life, of which
nearly one hundred exist, to overture
some Abbey OF Sargent for a series
of paintings portraying the great
scenes in the history of American pa
triotism.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
VIII NC ISGucu " carry OUT
these plans. The executive committee
believes that Mr.. Beecher's name and
work belong to the entire country
This memorial hall of patriotism is
to belong to all citizens, Catholic and
Protestant, Jew and Gentle, poor and
rich alike.
1--WE hope there will be found in va
rious parts of the country some men
who will give $4,000 or $40, 900, or $10,-
600 each; more who will give $500 or
5000 or 500, or $50 each, and thousands
of others who will give smaller sums
down to 81. We would also suggest
that the great clubs in our cities, po-
litical clubs and commercial clubs, set
part a night for the review of Mr..
Beecher's career, his life and work. The
committee will gladly put these clubs
in the various cities in touch with men
who will present the lesson on the life
and work of Beecher"
AT the conclusion of the addresses a
subscription for the Beecher memorial
fund was started by Mrs. w. c. Wal
lace with a contribution of $4,000.
Other contributors were Henry w.
Phipps, $1,000; DR.. Hossiter W. Ray
mond, $4,000, and John Arbuckle, S.
600. The total amount of the subscrip-
tions was not announced.