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Show THE REV. BEECHER'S TROUBLE. I The lieverends Buddington and Storrs, ol Brooklyn N. Y., seem desperately des-perately intent upon crucifying the Ecv. Henry Ward JJcecher. No sooner is he out of one dilemma than Storrs and Buddington manage to get him into another. Beechcr is supposed to be unsound upon everything every-thing that makes up an orthodox Christian minister, and as lie baa heretofore been popular with the Plymouth Church and with the pco-plo pco-plo of the United States, generally, Buddington and Storrs are proportionately proportion-ately moro envious than they arc holy, and "go for" Beechcr "without "with-out gloves:" they want to lower his plumage. They have, after a vast-amount vast-amount ot badgering, got Tuesday next fixed for the trial of that popular popu-lar divino on the charge of having winked at the deposition of Theodore Tilton from Christian communion with the Plymouth brethren; but everybody knows that this charge is mere moonshine. Ueecber is comparatively com-paratively yet in manhood, robust and full of kind words, like tho Reverend Florence McCartney, of Chicago, and Buddington and Storrs are like Autumn picklce,tha t arc put up more to keep than to u io, unless they are called for. They dislike Beechcr and under tho guise of settling the relation of Congregational Con-gregational brotherhood, they hope to ' revive all the scandals that chuti.T around the names of Beechcr, the Til tons and the Woodhull. Tho New York Sun very properly asks: Why do not tho pro-c-n'orj dra,v up a new in'lietmunt, fi-rii-in Mr. J;:di-r of conspiring to avoid an invcstigtili'Mi ol'nc-i.:iHatioi3 ol'nc-i.:iHatioi3 iikuii,. him orismatiiiK v. ith Theodore Tilton Ami I l.-nry C. M'm:ii. Then Iho count il find tin; puhlie will know exactly what th-y rmirt, and lin-c will he eo dodging around tliu Im-h. If the Kcv. Henry Ward Beechcr would come out and define bis real sentiments on religion, Buddicgtrm and Storrs would have no trouble, but S?lj5,000 a year, and sweet' scented hiccuio every Sunday evening, even-ing, is a big sacrifice to ask of any mortal in these hard times. |