The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-03-21
GRAND JURORS.
PETIT JURORS

7. A. H. Edwards j. w. Kendrlck
Stuart Stephenson Fred Krause
John Barth Patrick Murphy
John Williams Stephen Elliott .
Andrew Retelle Michael Taugher
Peter Stecker August Hill
Ernst Kern Joseph Scheuer
A. p. Carey A. J. Westgate
M. Goodenow Michael Galligley
Jacob Kistle John Moore
John V. Allie Marvin Mason
d. Snyder Michael Hogan
MANITOWOC SOLDIER WOUNDED.
The Chicago Post says that in the at
tack by Morgan's jayhawkers upon
our pickets near Nashville on the sth
instant, two men in Company B, Capt.
Mitchell, lst Wisconsin infantry were
wounded. Their names are Willet,
Greenleaf, of Milwaukee, and Henry
Smith, of Manitowoc. Greenleaf was
wounded in three places, one ball en-
tering the right breast, and penetrat-
ing to the lung, the other two entering
the left arm and breaking it between
the elbow and the wrist. Smith was
wounded by a common musket ball in
the groin. The former cannot long
survive, the latter will recover.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO.
There is no clasSxof people living
who stand more in danger of being
drawn away from sympathy with the
people and fossili2ing into censorious
critics of conduct, than clergmen.
They are too prone to mistake their
calling and instead of lifting up people
by sympathetic interest and kindly as
sistauce, they fancy that the thunder
bolts OF wrath are placed in their
hands and that duty calls for nothing
higher than the merciless eXcoriation
of offenders. The old clergyman
whose path through life has not
been beautified by deeds of charity,
becomes 2 mad Medusa. His sole
function is to mete out punishment for
delinquencies and never to hold out a
helping hand to the erring. Every
offence must not only "bear its nice
comment" but is objectionable and
must be followed by unsparing perse-
cution.
The action of the congregational
ministers at Chicago in refusing to
send message of sympathy to Mrs.
Beecber in her afliiction strikes one as
the refinement of clerical meanness.
1t is the act of self-rghteous lot of
fossils who have preached doctrine
and hell-fre until they have become
permeated with these ideas and think
they include all that there is worth of
in life. They live in the cold atmo-
sphere of appearance and can have no
sympathy with the warm heart of the
benevolent preacher whose conception
of God discarded as monstrous the idea
of a place of everlasting torments.
These narrow ministers are not bad
men consciously. AS matter of fact
they do more harm than the most
vicious class which defies the laws, as
they teach specious of morality from
which every bit of sympathy is expell-
ed. They would send the Magdalena
to the gibbet and consign her soul to
hell, and would feel in SO doing they
were obeying divine behests.
1t is difficult for worldly man TO
imagine such lofty ideas of righteous
ness, reaching into the frigid realms
where life cannot exist, as exemplifed
by this action Of tho Chicago ministers.
No word of kindly sympathy for Mrs.
Beecher because her husband did not
believe in hell. Such uncharitablo
bigotry transcends belief and seems IN
anachronism in the nineteenth cen
tury. And then resolution of sym
pathy to stricken wife whose life
partner one of the grandest figures OF
his age--is on his deathbed, Is voted
down because Beecher did not estab-
lish his innocence Of charge brought
against him by Tilton! Did any one
ever before Lear of such exalted
parity? Can anyone conceive oi
heroic sternness approaching this
manifestation? Without attempting te
say anything in disparagement of that
minister it is safe to say that II he hat
done one millionth part OF the goot
which Henry Ward Beecher has done
he would he cleaner in the sight ol
angels, more manly in the opinion 0
men, than he is with all bis exagger
ated ideas of goodness.