Henry Ward Beecher: a sketch of his career: with analyses of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist, and incidents and reminiscences of his life . a living Christ, in whom we live and believe, was knockingat the doors of mens consciences on the side of orthodox tradi-tions. On its intellectual side it was hound to disturb the wholeChristian life of this country. That question was predestined to produce some man or somemen who would be driven to reinvestigate the platforms which hadsufficed for a humbler past. Wrhether this man has done it wellor ill we leave to the verdict of
Henry Ward Beecher: a sketch of his career: with analyses of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist, and incidents and reminiscences of his life . a living Christ, in whom we live and believe, was knockingat the doors of mens consciences on the side of orthodox tradi-tions. On its intellectual side it was hound to disturb the wholeChristian life of this country. That question was predestined to produce some man or somemen who would be driven to reinvestigate the platforms which hadsufficed for a humbler past. Wrhether this man has done it wellor ill we leave to the verdict of the future. He has certainly com-pelled all men to think of it and recognize it. He has left a broadmark upon the Christian life of his ageârather a stimulus in itsheart to earnest and devout effort to make the Christ a true pres-ence, to honor daily life as capable of a genuine transubstantiation,so that a plain man may say now, as an earnest man once said,lam crucified with Christânevertheless I live ; yet not I, butChrist liveth in me ; and the life 1 now live in the flesh I live bythe faith of the Sou of God, who loved me and gave Himself for , ,fm. HENRY WARD BEECHER LYING IN STATE IN PLYMOUTH CntJRCH. CLOSING YEARS. 643 me. Making no pretence to being a theologian or a scholar, myfaith rests in the possibility of an illuminated conscience. Mygratitude goes forth to him who lies here, that he has enunciatedthat creed with body, soul and spirit. He loved all things andhis eloquence has adorned and beautified all in subservience to thatbelief. If the Christ indeed now feeds the oil to the golden lampsof special churches and lives on as truly God with us as ever liewas, our brother comprehends that his last symbol of earthly workwas properly the unfinished volume of his Life of Christ. Letus follow him as he followed Christ. Let us turn away to another thought. Abraham was to theIsraelites, in some things, w7hat Jesus is to usâthe type of a cove-nant system. We now refer
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