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Show flieecher J&ciers to the ScumEul. . New Yoru, 28. In the regular Friday night prayer meeting Beecher said, evidently m allusion to the great scandal, "Another thing I must speak of, but I need not recall painful pain-ful recol'octions by specifying very particularly. You all know thi; stoi m I bave pae.-eu through, aod it olten huppeua wheu there bus been a. storm that ibe sky will not clear im-j mediately. It keeps lowering alter the tempest has spent its force. I must Bay in reference to that mutter, however, thatduring all my travels m the year that is parsed, aud I have been in nearly every northern and western state, I have met with nothing noth-ing but kindness and consideration. Indeed, I have been everywhere received re-ceived with more kindueea and tenderness ten-derness than I ever was before. It is very little to you, I know, but the opinion of my fellow men is a great deal to mo, and I feel grateful that God has sustained me through such great trials, and brought me at last into a haven of peace. For, although I am of that build, I think that I could be happy and pursue my work pleasantly, with tbo bad opinion of all about me, if my conacienco only was right, yet tho good report of men about me is very precious." He also said, "I don't mean to say I wont deliver another lecLuro from this timo forth, but no more courses, no more goiDg away for weeks, no more long journeys. I am going about my work in the good old way again, to see if theBe prayer meetings can't be what they used to be." |