| Show I 1 pr joSp ARJE ial I 1 Eulo eulogizes 0 the creat great king 1 5 I 1 whose whoso throne was CHURCH whose sceptre all the parts of earth HE DREW intellectual I 1 luxuries from every field and n vineyard accessible to 10 PULPIT G GEMUS EN RUS th the touching words of a mend ml and B brother kinister Ni nister the th nobility of amerlois Amer Ameri loin axil genial genius nt atit a press pit to the WIRI WARD BEECHER lie II 11 it is eulogized by the rev or dr joseph parker NEW borr 0 oct t 4 her D dr r Z joseph porker parker of london delivered deliver eda eulogy upon henry ward beecher at the u academy of music tonight lie began with a reference eto to the burdensome character of tho tile task assigned to him it overawe oter weighs eghi rne me he lie said ivere some other man he lie added ad led to claim this honor on the ground of superior genius he 16 shou should ld have it instantly with my hearts absolute consent but no mail man shall take t ike it from me on tho the plea aa of larger love if love is genius I 1 claim to be 1 called upon for it ana and tho fact f act that each of us would claim priority bior only shows that tho the sainted name we me memorialize today to day works lile like a spell upon our imagination and is id in in the keeping of universal ereal loe love As A A an it en englishman lt dr parker claimed an a advantage L I 1 vantage winch which no A american gurican could enjoy distance wae was essential to true color proportion and perspective it got nd rid of detail friction and tumult throe three sand miles away there i was As i een only the tile outline ia 0 a noble fi figuro gure results Result only sonly escen not processes in the criticism therefore of a man like ike sir mr beecher Be ocher christian englishmen are enabled to make history before the tile time and to award honor as if with ith the veren verenita ity of accumulated ears while hile some of tho tile men in in hie bis own country are unable to escape tle lie of docility and we must end stand away ay from the mountain if we me see ite its magnitude after borne some plo plowing A ing tributes to america its N vitality its freedom freedo mete etc he lie continued you hae have no primogeniture primogeniture and and entail no hou house o 0 of lords no t titular i ular aristocracy yet yours are ho lie vital and noble conditions which made henry ward becchers beechers possible henry ward fard beecher neer never could have haeb been cen in in europe v ft halt bat he lie was in america you gave him scope you crested opportunities for linn him your journals multiplied lua influence your whole whole people applauded and consolidated ins his independence america possesses the balance of nations by showing that C ce arism ie is neither necessary to greatness nor required for security A free country grows freemen with many burn humorous orous and pat pathetic touches dr birker barker described the tile chilt childhood hood ot of beecher the tile house at litchfield Litchf icid he be paid was not much of a nest lor for euch such an eaglet but in in it there was an altar a bible a secret gate gain opening immediately upon heaven owning lie le briefe briefly y outlined sir air beechers earl early y career until aut he ie became a ling king whose throne wae was in n plymouth church and whose touched the uttermost utter moet part parts of the earth sir mr beechers Bee chera di discourse die cours scours cs es were mere unique in their intellectual range though not riot free from a certain monotony of conception and een form other men love occa lional powers now and again they boar high and work miracles mir aclee in in thought and eloquence they make supreme efforts and suffer de days after in consequence and are pens pensively ively inquired about as men ill esho are hardly expected to recover from their infinite fatigue beecher was great without toil mighty without exhaustion and slid so redundant were mere his ilia pulpit miracles that they more in danger of being treated as commonplace other mens sermons were mere but introductions where the they F nd M amen to their own relief an and delight of many h lie e said firstly when they had given out all of tile their r bread lie began to load tho the tables with trite intellectual luxuries s drawn from froin every field and vineyard accessible to pulpit genius then the tile monotony of mere I 1 framework tame or outline was forgotten in in tho the multitude and vividness of illustration illustrations m aich turned abstract abe tract truth in into concrete picture pictures air beecher had bad a supreme gift of language tie its was betokened by his ilia planet like eyes ey acs e q as full as as ald lant as Gladst onoe oo as expressive asGar as ricks in the uee of wor dalio w aiu a necromancer bously so to a large lame extent for or he nev never er knew how well mell lie WAS expressing bim himself self FI fluency bency in a preacher la is often a di disease in in some instances it it is a crime at alawie ways a crime m when lien it depose 9 con nc ienco and prefers ite its own rimps to honest painstaking it may be 10 truly blid said that ins his thoughts were mere greater than his ilia language every haa its own tint or intellectual b beauty eve eatery sentence its own f freight of rich meaning every sermon I 1 its ts own picture pictures itu gallity of etna stirs I 1 hta its we were innumerable ins his thoughts were countless counties wo vp haio have had great preachers in england but sir air beecher stood apart from them by the ery very fact that whilst st they pu purchased urell ased their pulpit eminence by great rt r t expenditure ot of effort lie was ey g evidently d antly crep free born he ile toiled not nor did he pin spin yet et the ornate pomp and cl classic asile unity of othere othera were nut to bo compared with his ids artless sim 1 artistic preachers prea chera work literary linit ini meles lea on iper piper p but e everywhere v cr edw where the tile cunning hind hand is is seen the rasping file is heard botill ng me ch anical have I 1 yet discovered in mr liv echers preaching it is el loa not t breathing call it a perennial perennial toun tun tain call it a growing harvest c call A it it a brightening day and yo our u r figure will wit not be beino remolo tron t the I 1 phe hello nominal minal reality but put never lile that preaching o 0 to any work of art or mans device it la Is not log 09 much to ay 47 hat to I 1 I 1 many preachers preacher sAIr beechers Bce chera method gae a conception conof of the tile y of f ve preaching alip whole ardea idea 0 of f a seo sermon w As no longer on er a aa a an n 1 alsia of w rd ads a dreary oration orti n and an 1 a dibari 28 ri aution bu t io bof of P martn ulars sa a pedantic tic display of learned earned ignorance an on aslaug tremendous in feebleness ti tipon na absent nt doubters and dead inal dele dels nor was it pious whine tin inoffensive fens live platitude and infantile ho malv or a condiment for ir de delicate acate son souls la ft was an amazing amr zing combination of phi loso bv poetry emotion and human ta enthusiasm eng u I 1 all I 1 centered in christ and d all intended to bring men in into right A relations with our father rather N mr Bee e echers chere sermons never affrighted men never froze them never repelled I 1 in his sentiment there was no feebleness god himself made mad e beech beechert Bee chera e ra humorist gave him taste for comedy and enriched him with the grace gram of play fullness lie ile prated prayed better than he laughed his tears were ere because hie ilia humor was mas so a spontaneous n taneo us and abundant lie ile n never c r laughed at truth at virtue at vil biety 1 ty at poverty at belaf allness he ile ched u at foole foots who u undertook n to turn back the ocean to grasp the tile infinite and to give them elvas the god whose existence they denied becchers theology was impatient of system sv stem form or whatever looked like finality lie Ife disliked all narrowness sectarianism I 1 will mill go further we did not always know where buccher was in bis his theological thinking borne some of us could not follow him w v hen he lie entered the radiant cloud and passed out of our eight because rom a of us it have v no wings the tile cope could could find n no fault it ich with the telescope though the one can never do dothe the work of the theother other he ile never returned to us to report that universo smaller than lio lie supposed it to be he ile said in effect that in in the universe of truth beyond the horizon stretches in in unimaginable range and splendor constellation above con etel lation burns ili in solemn glory and system within system rolls in silent light compared with which magnificence ence all that we me know of day and summer is is but the mitigation of darkness wien 1 en he came back to an bounce in in ins ilia brilliant lecou lectures res on evolution and religion thit that th it he hid had become an evolutionists it WM was W M with no pride of intellect that he ile made lie the announcement but with the tile delight of a child who has seen how many mansions there are in his fat fathers bers house and with what infinite sublimity 0 of I 1 the tile universe e is is constructed an and d ad ministered an evolved creation heightened his ilia religious wonder anil led him to glorify god in loftier and praise his ilis was he the genius of an abunda abundance of f clenti fined ful ness or inexhaustible ble ancelo ric es for thie this a reason men of all capacities thronged his ministry for he lie had a a por portion ion of meat tor for each and a ina sonic panic word m which it ich each could understand |
