Show A LADYS LADY 18 CRITIC CRITICISM ISAI OF BEECHER editor deseret 2 aws my mind has been somewhat loaded ever since gince I 1 read Be beecherl beechers bee Bes chemin chemma lecture on the cormons mormons in the EVEKING NEWS so eo I 1 take my pen to draw the 19 71 7 charge there Is much in it that la Is worthy of becchers beechers Be echers mind and character and then there are ate expressions and sentiments unworthy his great knowledge and experience both in human nature and the way in which that complex nature works his remarks are the beat best and most liberal and have the most common sense and bind realization of the mormon problem of any articles that have lately appeared in the public journals na galiand liand 3 and even that is very equivocal commendation no I 1 will make an exception to a leader in a london blondon paper recently I 1 think the daily telegraph that savored of good bense denba add and good feeling and considerable understanding and appreciation of the present situation of the mormon community but it beema beems to me if I 1 had such a mind as becchers beechers Be echers ench euch an experience peri ence bearing the august title of a servant of god and many other othen eligible etee otee etceteras teras I 1 would bould not stoop my crest to the vitiated taste of my rny audience and eo interlard my otherwise good dis coarse with low references to the mormon women I 1 would remember the dignity of my own characters ter ten and that I 1 had earned the right to be their teacher and I 1 would not nor could not pander to the low views of my bearers hearers that I 1 was speaking bleaking on a vital subject vital vita at any rate to the tho people on whom I 1 was lecturing and hence I 1 would not and could not succumb to lower my tone tons to the questionable taste of my audience wherein I 1 felt to differ from those people I 1 would express press presa it in terms that could not offend but might enlighten and do good if I 1 felt I 1 was their superior by moving in a greater light or a higher school I 1 would endeavor to make that palpable but I 1 would never allow myself to descend to low sarcasm or ambiguous language of all language the most offensive to a de licate and refined mind the problem of mormonism is worthy the study of the highest and most 1 enlightened minds of the present day daj if it hab has in it which it has to excite the observation ser Eer of the most moat enlightened imong among the nations of the earth why not such minds with cerious and earnest atud study yand and dignity of thought and language ed to take it in hand band not lightly wantonly or unadvisedly unadvised Jy but in the fear of god methinks in such a course truth might be discovered and certainly donld have a more j savory impression upon the people so maligned instead of which in almost all cabes cases without thought without knowledge writers descend I 1 to the low and almost the obscene surely they color everything with 1 1 their awa own ideas and their own ex f experience more than 30 years ngo ago I 1 first read beechert Bee chera writings and I 1 exalted T him almost into one of my ideals f 11 1 have continued to read him and when he be came into trial and stood s as it were at bay before the united state a tesy teby I 1 gave hinl hini my sympathy and d more I 1 gave him the noble english E law fhe the benefit of the doubt I 1 have nothing to say on I 1 the pro or con of that matter 1 I only know that beecher Be echers echenb s character for self ose and the right fort port of eta stamina min si of mind and spirit was ne never ver shown own grander than at ait that our of trial one of a character at all interiors interior would have taken repose in suicide trial and the heavy hand of censure bures generally does doea improve and elevate a character even if innocent and also teaches mercy and just judgment I 1 will look to see bee more from the lips lipa or pen fen of beecher for much in his discourse had the right ring in it even the aroma of truth and justice epsilon ON salt lake city dec esth 1863 1063 |