Show BEECHER ABUSE I SAYS DR GOSHEN Compares Great Preacher I i to Abraham A 1 Lincoln BothI Both I Ii I I Loved by Humanity I Henry Henn Ward Deecher was wag tho rho I theme of tho the sermon by hy the Rev Hev Dr pro Elmer 1 I Goshen pastor of the th First Congregational church at ot that thal edifice I yesterday morning This Is he tho third l I In In his series of or sermons illustrating epochs in American hl history tory from the lie I 11 lives NI of oC great Americans In those pen peI pe- pe 1 I n mentioned I Henry Hinry a Ward was the most I versatile cr man that America ever pro pro- said Dr Goshen during his I course which was listened to h by a tl ai i great con congregation which filled d the church edifice at fit First So South th and andI I I lour Fourth h East streets street Beecher wasi was great i great in every department of or en- en or deavor he entered l as orator writer scholar and statesman n He lIe did dill more I than any man mon In nineteenth cent century century cen- cen t tury to break k down religious bigotry am and superstition Ho lIo made the greatest effort and achieved tho the greatest greatest great great- reat- reat est st results result o of nn any of or the men sent over to lo prevent England's giving I vI n credit cred erell- it to the tho cau cause of or the South during ll I I the struggle of ot 1861 c Ho and Lincoln Lin Ln- coln coin were much alike heln being born a aI I I fow ow ew years year apart and both hoth h being th the most maligned men o of the century century- Each bore the burdens of ot tho the nation an each lives in the memory of or the tho nation held In immortal renown Inlove in inlove inlove love o of humanity Principles of o American History U Is Uthe i ithe the of or the course of ot sermons flermon be beInG being being be- be ing delivered by Dr G Goshen shen and tho the next sermon will bo be on Beechers Becchers Trial for Immorality |