Show S = A Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher i BROOKLYN June 244n the park oppo c a ite the city hall a tribute in bronze and t S granite t Henry Vard Beecher was un v5ll2dt 4 oclock this afternoon A largo oil croWJf people was present among them crow Sunday school children who took bi piin the exercises yflaoa Seth Low delivered an oration fchich wu devoted to an eulogy of Mr i Beadier Speaking of the noted divines frorJc for the abolition of slavery Low 1 Byais dauntiesc spirit be i c S t good at all times the words which he shouted m the teeth of Isiah Ryander and his mob when they broke up the abolition meeting in New York In Brooklyn we I have free speech Many another note ho struck on the harp strings of the human heart but no one will doubt that his passion sion for freedom was the master passion of pis life Just as B echer left Lane seminary movements were culminating which divided the Presbyterianism ot that day into tbe old and new schools Beecher though found orthodox was refused a license to preach because bis father belonged be-longed to the new school and he himself I also declined to subscribe t the old I a I 1S47 ho came to the newly organized Plymouth Ply-mouth church of Brooklyn What manner of man he was at this time appeared in I present his first sermon when he said to those I If you come Into this congregation I want you to understand distinctly that I will preach the gospel as I apprehend it whether men will hear It whether they will forbear and that I apply it without stint and sharply and strongly to overthrow S over-throw every evil and for the upbuilding of all that is good I tat guod |