Volume II. were completed in this manner, and the outlines of the

remaining three, within which space he intended to complete the work, were clearly blocked out in his own mind. As he got more and more back into the long-interrupted current of thought, his interest deepened, and with increased interest came greater mental ease.

Several times he remarked that he had never seen the subject so clearly and luminously in his mind before. It seemed at times as though Christ’s life were revealed to him with a clearness and a nearness that had never before been given him. In one of his exalted moods he burst out: “Twenty men could not in a life-time write all I now see; how can I put it into one book?”

But a few days before his last sickness an English clergyman called to see him, and after a pleasant chat, as he rose to leave, asked if there was any prospect of his completing the “Life of Christ.” Mr. Beecher replied that he was at work on it then, and would probably finish it in two or three months. The clergyman was greatly delighted, saying that he had been long waiting, hoping for the second volume. As the visitor left, Mr. Beecher, kneeling in his great arm-chair, as was often his wont when in a reverie, with one elbow on the chair-back, and chin resting in his open palm, gazed in silent abstraction out of the window facing him. Suddenly, his face lighting up, he exclaimed, as though thinking aloud: “Finish the Life of Christ! Finish the Life of Christ! _Who can_ finish the Life of Christ! It cannot be finished.”

Prophetic words! Almost within the week he was called to that closer communion with his Saviour, and entered into that lasting peace for which he had so often longed.

During the day of Thursday, March 3, he was in the best of spirits and apparently perfect health. He had repeatedly stated since his return from England that he had never felt better, or better able to work. We had often during the past month jokingly called him the youngest boy in the house. None of us dreamed that Thursday was to end his long career of usefulness.

During the night he awoke, complaining of nausea, and was taken with vomiting, but soon fell asleep again. Friday morning he did not get up; though he roused when spoken to, he would immediately after fall asleep again. These symptoms disturbed no one, as they were quite common whenever he had any bilious trouble. The family thought that something he ate for supper had disagreed with him, and that he was working it off in his usual way, by sleeping and lying quiet.

Friday afternoon the doctor was for the first time called in. He thought, with the family, that the trouble was with the stomach, though some symptoms made him think that perhaps there might be some other complicating causes than mere biliousness.

Later in the evening, when one of his sons called in, he roused himself quite fully, called for toast, complained that his feet were cold, and that his head ached some. When asked what was the matter, he replied, jokingly, in a sort of half-sleepy manner:

“I had a dream last night. I thought that I was a duke and your mother a duchess, and I was trying to figure the interest on a hundred thousand pounds a year—you know I never was good at mathematics. It gave me a headache; but I’ll have your mother boil a page of arithmetic and make a tea of it. I’ll cure it homœopathically.”

He was then helped to sit up in bed and eat his toast, which he did with eyes still closed, as though half-asleep. When laid back upon his pillow he fell asleep at once.

Saturday morning the dreadful truth first became apparent. Dr. Searle found that the left side showed unmistakable signs of paralysis, and then, recalling the previous symptoms, which had been attributed to other causes, said at once that it was apoplexy and that there was nothing to hope for. At first none would believe the diagnosis. Up to that moment all had thought the illness nothing that need cause any apprehension, when with the suddenness of a lightning-stroke came the announcement of utter hopelessness.

That no chance should be overlooked, Drs. Hammond and Helmuth, of New York, were called in consultation during the day, and confirmed the hopeless diagnosis. Nothing could be done—nothing but wait. The patient did not suffer; only those who stood about his bed, watching the beloved face, suffered.

Several times during Saturday afternoon, in response to loud questions put by the doctors, he roused enough to comprehend the questions and briefly answer them. With each attempt his articulation became more difficult.

After the consultations were over he never spoke again. His unconscious sleep became deeper and more profound through Sunday and Monday, until Tuesday morning, at twenty minutes to ten, his breath grew fainter—then stopped. The end he had hoped for was his. As warriors of old prayed that they might die in full armor, not a piece wanting or rusted from disuse, in the full activity of the fight, so he prayed that he might be spared the slow wasting of disease or the impairment of his physical and mental powers.

No black, no mourning drapery of any kind, was permitted about the house or on his coffin. At the door hung a beautiful wreath of delicate pink and white roses, gathered at the top by a large white satin bow, renewed afresh each morning by the hands of a beloved friend.

Against every form of mourning he had always revolted; to him death was but the gate to heaven, and the black symbols of ancient paganism he could not endure:

“The scholastic theology, filled with gloomy ideas sifted through stern Romish minds from teachings of pagan Romans has come down to us, until the representations of death that exist in the literature of Rome are more abominable and cruel than all the vices of all the Neros, or any other of the corrupt emperors. The scholastic conceptions of dying and of death are unworthy of reason, unworthy of conscience, and are blasphemous to God and to His government. They have no foundation in the New Testament, none certainly in the Old, and they ought to be purged out of our imaginations. Yet it lingers with us, and when death has come the household has not one note of triumph, not one star shines through the grief, nor one door of flashing light is opened. We cover the pictures, we shut up the instruments of music, we close the windows and shut out the light; we have a black hearse with plumes plucked from the wings of midnight, and we send for our minister, who doles out lugubrious, mournful themes, and we sing awful hymns. And then because one’s child has gained the coronation of glory, and is in the arms of Jesus, and rests from all labor and trial and temptation, we put on black—black over the head, black around the neck, black down to the feet, black inside! We carry the habiliments of woe and darkness and gloom, and think that we can see death everywhere. No other thing is as this. The one thing that men carry everywhere with them, and they are bound to share alike with brothers, strangers, friends, is that one thing that is borrowed from the despotism and cruelty of heathenism. Not one joy, not one thanksgiving, not one gleam of faith and hope, not one promise of Jesus Christ, not one single second of immortality and glory, is permitted to cheer the soul. All is night, black night, hopeless night. Sinful, the whole of it, unchristian, ungrateful!...

“One of the most beautiful things I ever saw in my whole European tour was the burial place of a Prussian queen who died during the great struggle against Napoleon, when the nation was ground almost to extinction, leaving her kingly husband almost inconsolable. At some distance from the capital, and in the midst of the solemn wood, he built a temple to her memory. It was of marble. As I entered, the light shone down through blue glass, casting a sad, sorrowful tone on all that its rays shone upon. But further on, upon entering the inner chamber, the cheerful light of God’s sun streamed in through the numerous windows and illuminated the ceiling, which was covered with glowing Scripture passages of death and immortality. And there in that blessed sunlight lay the sculptured form of the queen, forming the most perfect embodiment of rest, and peace, and triumph that my eyes ever beheld. There was nothing, sad or sorrowful, or painful to be seen; only the light of the glory of God as set forth in the sun; and the whole room glowed with cheer and brightness, and the monument was not gloomy but peaceful. I bless God with all my heart for that sight; it has been a comfort to me in many a dark day and long struggle of suffering, for already have I seen the triumph of death, the sweetness and the peace of victory, in that monumental marble.”

On Thursday a private funeral service was held at the house, the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall, of the Church of the Holy Trinity, officiating, in accordance with the expressed wish of Mr. Beecher. Between the two a deep and lasting friendship had existed. In the dark days, when not a few of the clerical brethren of his own denomination in Brooklyn doubted, or, hesitating, held back awaiting the result, Dr. Hall, in a manner characteristic of his brave and manly nature, went out of his way to show, in public, his confidence and love for Mr. Beecher. The latter attending service one day, during the time when the clouds hung heaviest, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, the doctor, seeing him in the congregation, descended into the aisle, and, taking his friend by the hand, led him to a seat within the chancel. Mr. Beecher, always forgetful of injuries, never forgot an act of friendship. It was his oft-repeated wish that, should he be called first, the voice of this brave, beloved friend might speak the words of cheer and comfort to those he left behind.

At the close of the service, Company G, of the Thirteenth Regiment—which, having been largely recruited from the young men of Plymouth Church, was called the “Plymouth Company,” and affectionately styled by Mr. Beecher “My boys”—with arms reversed, banners furled, and muffled drums, marched to the house, and, as a guard of honor, escorted the body of their pastor, chaplain, and friend to the church, as he was borne for the last time within its doors, and laid him, silent for the first time, at the foot of that pulpit from which his voice, during well-nigh forty years, had so often rung out to right the wrong, to lift up the down-trodden, to uphold the weak, to elevate mankind; that had so often preached comfort to the sorrowing, light to those in great darkness, pointing out the way of life to struggling sinners, and revealing that boundless love of God which was the keynote of his theology.

Till Saturday morning an almost continuous stream passed through the church to look in a last farewell upon the face of a friend, scarcely ending with midnight, renewed again by daylight, all day long. Old men and children, rich and poor, met to mourn a common loss.

He rested in a bed of flowers, the coffin hidden from sight by twining smilax, covered with white pinks and rosebuds; pulpit and organ buried in flowering shrubs and graceful plants, decorated with many floral designs.

On Friday morning the public funeral service was held, Dr. Hall preaching the sermon.

Simultaneous with the services at Plymouth, funeral services were held in the three nearest adjoining churches.

On the proclamation of the mayor, business was suspended during the day; the Legislature adjourned, sending a special committee to attend as its representatives at the funeral.

On Sunday a memorial service was held in Plymouth Church, in which the representatives of every creed took part—Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant—and nearly every denomination of Protestantism vying each with another in paying tributes of respect, gratitude, and love to their common brother—a most fit, practical example of that for which he had always preached, the universal brotherhood in God.

On Saturday, the 12th, the body was taken quietly to Greenwood.

“To-day Henry Ward Beecher’s body was buried in Greenwood. His hearse was followed in sympathy and honor by millions of his countrymen. The mourners were of all kindred and of every language. Not in this generation, at least, has there been a funeral so nobly significant. In the stately procession walked the viewless forms of principles, of governments, of nations, and of races. The guardian spirit of the slave whom he helped to liberate; the fair, sad genius of the Green Isle, for which he so often and so eloquently pleaded; the dusky representative of the Chinese Empire, in behalf of whose sons he again and again demanded justice; the fair form of modern science with the radiance of the morning sun on her queenly brow; the benign angel of charity, clothed in the whiteness of that purity which renders sin invisible; democracy, with her free step, flowing hair, and cap of many hues; Columbia, full of matronly grace and benignant as the atmosphere of June; and Christianity, calm, motherly, and forgiving—these are the pall-bearers by whom the body of our hero was borne to its resting-place....”[20]

Footnote 20:

From the Brooklyn _Citizen_ of March 12.

On a sunny slope in that most beautiful of all cemeteries, overlooking the Bay of New York, is the grave of Henry Ward Beecher. But it is only the grave: “When I fall, and am buried in Greenwood, let no man dare to stand over the turf and say, ‘Here lies Henry Ward Beecher,’ for God knows that I will not lie there. Look up; if you love me, and if you feel that I have helped you on your way home, stand with your feet on my turf and look up; for I will not hear anybody that does not speak with his mouth toward heaven.”

With all our sorrow we cannot begrudge him the rest and peace so well earned, nor that for which he had so often prayed—a quiet, painless departure while yet each faculty was unimpaired. He remembered with deepest pain the failing years of his own father, who lingered till all his faculties became impaired:

“My venerable father, who was a second David in his time—a man of war—and yet who had as sweet a heart as ever an angel woman had, lived through many last years of weakness and obscuration, and I had to remember a great way back to find my father. It was very pitiful, very painful.

“That is one reason why I do not want to be an old man. I hope God will have so much consideration for my weakness—if it be a weakness—as to let me drop down in my harness and in the full energy of work. I have no fear whatever of dying: it is only the fear of living that I have before my eyes....

“Some persons talk about a man having passed through a stormy life, and sitting now at the end of his life in quiet, preparing himself for heaven. Heaven does not want any such preparation as that. That is the best preparation which a man makes when he is using the whole force of his being in his day and time. I would rather die with the harness on and be dragged out by the heels. I would like to fall in the traces. You cannot help scoring one year against yourself and growing old in one way; but it is the outward man that is growing old. The wine that is in you ought to be growing better and better every year. Time should mellow and ripen it. True, if a man’s power is dried up, he cannot do more than he has strength for; but every man should do up to the measure of his strength, and not forget the sudden appearing of God in his own day and in his own time.

“I love those streams that run full, clear to the ocean. Some men there are who are like mountain streams, torrent-fed, that boom in the spring, with wondrous glory of fulness and power, and go rushing through the earlier months, but slacken their speed, and by midsummer are only a trickling reminiscence of the river. I like to think of streams like the old Merrimac, that begin work up near their head-waters, and never run a league without turning some mighty wheel of industry, and have no vacation to the end, but go into the sea with the very foam on their surface.”

For him death had no terrors; it was the gate opening into eternal rest and peace—that peace for which he had so often yearned and longed in his later years. Death was the welcome friend, not the dreaded foe.

“Is there anything sweeter to grief and sorrow than that passage where the New Testament, sweet book of the soul, speaks of dying? Let Tuscanized Romans talk of death; let heathen mythologies come to us with skulls, and cross-bones, and hideous images of dying, of the monster Death, of the tyrant Death, of the scythe-armed Death, of a grim and terrible fate; but what terror can any of these representations have for us when we have for our encouragement and hope the promises of the New Testament?

“On a summer’s day the gentle western wind brings in all the sweets of the field and the garden; and the child, overtasked by joy, comes back weary, and climbs for sport into the mother’s lap; and before he can sport he feels the balm of rest stealing over him, and lays his curly head back upon her arm; and look! he goes to sleep; hush! he has gone to sleep, and all the children stand smiling. How beautiful it is to see a child drop asleep on its mother’s arm! And it is said, ‘He fell asleep in Jesus.’ Is there anything so high, so noble, or divine, as the way in which the New Testament speaks of dying? How near death is, and how beautiful!

“If you have lost companions, children, friends, you have not lost them. They followed the Pilot. They went through airy channels, unknown and unsearchable, and they are with the Lord; and you are going to be with Him, too. I die to go, not to Jerusalem, but to the New Jerusalem. I die, not to wait in the rock-ribbed sepulchre, which shall hold me sure; I die, that when this body is dropped I shall have a place, in the inward fulness of my spiritual power, with the Lord.

“Then welcome gray hairs! they come as white banners that wave from the other and higher life. Welcome infirmities! they are but the loosening of the cords preparatory to taking down the tabernacle. Welcome troubles! they are but the signs that we are crossing the sea, and that not far away is our home—that house of our Father in which are many mansions, where dwells Jesus, the loved and all-loving. And let us rejoice that He has gone from the body, that He may be ever present in the spirit, and that ere long we may be with Him.”

His life had been full and complete. Unconsciously, in words of matchless beauty, he painted his own picture when he said:

“And the most beautiful thing that lives on this earth is not the child in the cradle, sweet as it is. It is not ample enough. It has not had history enough. It is all prophecy. Let me see one who has wrought through life; let me see a great nature that has gone through sorrows, through fire, through the flood, through the thunder of battle, ripening, sweetening, enlarging, and growing finer and finer, and gentler and gentler, that fineness and gentleness being the result of great strength and great knowledge accumulated through a long life—let me see such a one stand at the end of life, as the sun stands on a summer afternoon just before it goes down. Is there anything on earth so beautiful as a rich, ripe, large, glowing, and glorious Christian heart? No, nothing.”

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

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Mr. Beecher’s trial lecture was the first sermon which he preached as a clergyman. It may be interesting, both from that fact and because, as Mr. Beecher himself once remarked, it shows how commonplace a sermon a man might write who subsequently attained to some eminence as a preacher.

TRIAL LECTURE.

_For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it._—ISAIAH lv. 10, 11.

No one can read the Bible, even superficially, without observing how much it brings in the natural world to illustrate the truths of the moral. Of the truths of God’s government or of his own Being it may be said “the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things _that are made_.” The passage assigned as the subject of this lecture is remarkable in this respect, since two departments are compared—the truth of God is compared with the elements.

It will be particularly noticed here that no formal analogy is set up between the effect of truth and the effect of natural causes. Nor are the two compared in all respects.

It is not intimated that truth acts as natural causes act—that truth produces effects on mind in the same way as rain does upon the earth and its vegetation. Nothing of this. The comparison instituted respects one thing, and only one thing, and that is the equal _certainty_ of two things. The passage teaches simply and only that there is as much certainty that the truth of God will produce its appropriate results, in its own way, as there is that natural elements will, in their own way, produce their natural results. Those who attempt to draw a parallel between the operations of God’s moral government and His natural one, and call upon this passage for witness, neither understand the import of this text nor the nature of the thing whereof they treat.

It is a comforting declaration, and to none more so than to Christians who love truth. We often fear that it will be covered up, its influence destroyed; that through the weakness of men, or the power of evil, or some disastrous reverse of events, its power will be lost. And particularly are ministers, whose chief duty it is to study truth, to promulgate and confirm it throughout the community, liable to despond when they find themselves coping with so many malign influences, so much coldness, and scepticism, and worldliness, and ignorance. If they look only upon the narrow scale upon which they labor, it often would seem as if there were indeed no power in truth, no certainty that it would fructify.

It is an assurance, then, to our faith, and a great comfort to us in our toil, when we listen to Him who sitteth in the heavens, and before whom all things are open and naked—who sits serene above all the whirl which distracts and confuses us on this dusty earth, and hear Him say, seeing the beginning from the end of all things: “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

We design at this time to draw from our text a few obvious inferences, to confirm and illustrate and apply them.

1. _We may infer that truth is adapted_ to produce moral results in this world.

_How_ it produces them we shall not examine. It is a matter of philosophy, of speculation, and we concern ourselves with the practical bearing of our text.

This inference will appear the more plainly true if we consider—

1. That the Bible is explicit upon this head. Paul says to Timothy: “From a child thou hast known the _holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation_, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

And not satisfied with specific assertion, he generalizes and makes it a general principle: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy iii. 16–17).

Could anything be more untrue, if truth _has not_ an adaptation to produce what it is said to do?

Throughout the Bible God regards truth as sufficient to accomplish His purposes, and nothing is so severely dealt with, by rebuke and judgment, as that deficiency and sin which comes of neglecting or refusing truth.

“What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have _done_? Wherefore, when I looked, that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?”

A constant visible Providence, mighty acts, the record of wonderful deliverances and mercies, and the institutes of a beneficent law—were not these adapted to produce the required obedience in the Jews? If truth have not adaptation to produce moral results, the Jew very pertinently might have replied to this severe rebuke: What has been done to produce obedience? Nothing but a series of truths have been given which have no adaptation or tendency to produce holiness.

Nothing has been done to make us other than we are. And in exact accordance with the spirit of this was Christ’s teaching when He said: “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin” (John xv. 22).

2. The very object for which truth was revealed confirms the truth of our inference. It was revealed either for something or for nothing. If for nothing, it was foolishness. But if for something, then either it was fitted to produce what it was created for, or it was not. If it was not adapted to produce that for which it was created, then God attempted to bring to pass an end with means ill-adapted to that end. He raised up an instrumentality without adaptation to do what he desired. But what is meant by instrumentality, which has nothing of an instrument in it? What is instrumentality without any adaptation to do anything? Consequently if we would avoid imputing such weakness, such double folly and failure to God, we must admit with the Bible the adaptation of truth to produce its appropriate moral results.

Men travel across the express declarations of His word, and cross reason, to support a philosophical theory which, after all, destroys the very thing for which they framed it.

3. Our inference becomes still more apparent in truth if for a moment we admit the opposite doctrine and watch its results.

(1) The law is composed of truths respecting God, His relations to us, and ours to Him—the duties flowing thence, the penalties and rewards respectively of disobedience or obedience, our duties to one another, etc.; and all this professedly is given to restrain from evil and produce good.

But if truth has no adaptation to produce moral effects, the law was designed to do what it had no adaptation to do. It could have no influence and no power, and God is represented as framing a law to do what it had no relevancy to do.

(2) The character of God—why is it held forth to excite admiration and love, if that has no _adaptation_ to excite such feelings?

There is nothing in God, nothing in His attributes, which can awaken the least emotion, unless truth can work out moral results.

(3) And precisely so of all the recorded doings of God since creation, especially that stupendous spectacle—the Atonement. All is thrown away as respects influence upon intelligent moral beings, they are utterly worthless, if they have no power to do anything. In short, this theory, so unfounded, so monstrous either in philosophy or fact, so repugnant to every declaration of God, would destroy every influence which the Bible was sent to produce.

It cuts off the mind from any influence except that by which a stick or stone might be moved from place to place. The strong declaration of the Bible that men resist the truth—how, if nothing to resist?

We admit _that truth, as a matter of fact, does not_ produce its legitimate results without the influence of the Holy Spirit. But then the reason lies in the depravity of our hearts, and not in any want of _adaptation_ in the truth.

God made it ample, it was enough to create infinite obligation, and, if unresisted, to have kept us from sin and trained us up in holiness. Our depravity resisted its action, and would always; and this is the ground and necessity of the interference of the Holy Spirit.

Not the want of light, but men love darkness better; not the want of adaptation in truth, but men resist it, and will do so for ever, unless God shall send the Holy Spirit. In His hands truth becomes omnipotent. He pierces with it the darkest eye, and sounds it upon the deafest ear, and rouses up the deadest heart, “enlightening by it their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ, being made willing by His grace.”

We are not, however, to rest satisfied with this mere intellectual view of this point. It has very deep, practical importance, which I shall briefly lay open to you.

1. It shows you the importance of knowing _what the truth is exactly_.

God has made truth to produce certain results of good, and no substitute for it will. The husbandman who would raise a harvest of wheat must sow wheat, not something which is only very much like it. The Christian who would have the fruits of _truth_ in his heart must believe _the_ truth, and not something that is very much like it.

He who would have the fruits of God’s love in his heart, who would grow rich in the graces of the Spirit of God, must understand God’s character _just as it is revealed_—_i.e._, just _as it is_, for it is the truth of His character which will produce salutary results, and nothing else will. Hence those who entertain false views of God have a deficient condition of mind and heart in exact proportion as they deviate from the truth; and this is the reason why those who reject the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour wane in piety, in happiness, and finally experience from their view of God hardly one beneficial result. They have expected that what was not true would produce in them the effect of what _was true_. Consequently we find the sacred writers anxiously inculcating a diligent, careful study of the character of God, as Paul to the Colossians (chap. ii. 2, 3): “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

And just before: “That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

So, too, Eph. i. 17: “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.”

2. So also respecting doctrine. We are bound to know exactly what God has revealed, for that is to produce the good effect in the hands of the Spirit, and not an imagination which we think is true. If by total depravity we teach something else than that which the Bible teaches, will the same results flow? If, instead of regeneration, as Christ and Paul explain it, we vamp up a theory aside and different from it, will the effect be the same? Will the Holy Spirit employ it equally with the other?

Nay, he who does not preach truth, and believe truth, preaches error and believes error. Truth saves, and error destroys. And this is the reason why it is some matter what a man believes, provided he is sincere. God does not regenerate and save by _sincerity_, but by truth. Error received sincerely is only error placed where it shall work out its fullest evils with the greatest certainty, and with every help which the heart can afford. Error sincerely received is death cordially embraced.

3. Hence we see how deeply important it becomes for Christians to employ prayer and diligent study of the Bible, that the Holy Spirit of God may enlighten their minds with all truth.

All that which constitutes a pure and holy heart must come from truth; ourselves and our hearers are to be saved by _truth_ in the hands of the Holy Spirit. How earnestly, then, should we seek His divine, unerring guidance! If He teach us, we shall have truth indeed; but if left to our depraved hearts how soon shall we draw in error, how soon shall we be spoiled by vain philosophy and deceit after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ! And if deserted forever, how rapid will be our deterioration from bad to worse, until eternal death do close upon us!

4. The importance of propagating, through all the world, the Bible, is most particularly taught in the text, and is most appropriately deduced from our position. God has promised that His Holy Spirit shall go with it, shall make it effective. Would we fill the earth with the power of God’s Spirit, send abroad the Bible, by which He has graciously determined to act, and through which He will sanctify and save.

II. The second inference which I draw from this passage is that, _when the truth is properly explained and applied, we are both allowed and bound to expect corresponding auspicious results_.

1. So Christ and His apostles taught by example. Christ refused to throw away labor when nothing could be _expected_ from it. Hence He never would open to the Pharisees and bigoted doctors of Jerusalem the nature of His message, nor descant upon the character of God, nor urge upon them His claims, nor urge them to repent, nor work miracles before them. He knew the heart of man, and knew that no good would follow. If, then, the ground of exclusion from the labors of His ministry was that there could be no hope of success, then where He did labor it must have been upon the ground _of hope of success_.

So Paul repeatedly rejoices in the power of the Gospel to save mankind, and gloried in this with great exultation, proclaiming that on this account he was not ashamed of it.

Now, was it the mere fact that Paul felt that the truths of the Gospel had the power, abstractly, to save mankind, without any particular expectation that they _would_ do so, or did his heart fire because he most confidently expected that nations would be _born_ to Christ by his preachings? No one whose heart ever burned with a desire of glorifying God by gathering in souls to His kingdom can hesitate to say which of these inspired Paul. It is no joy, no subject of particular gratulation, that the Gospel can save mankind, unless we also believe that it _actually will_.

The only reason why we rejoice in its adaptation to save the world is because we believe that the world should be saved.

How wide of the truth are they who think that a faithful, sincere Christian or minister has no right to expect the fruits of their labor, but are bound to rest as satisfied that it should not as that it should happen! It is a spirit utterly repugnant to the Gospel. Some would imagine that we should not so expect—expect confidently the fruit of our labors—because God is a Sovereign and worketh according to the counsel of His own will.

But this is the very ground upon which we build our confidence.

It is because God, as a Sovereign, acting most freely and according to the purposes of His own will, hath joined to truth its appropriate results, and has encouraged us to expect them. If God were no Sovereign, we should have no confidence, never knowing what might or might not happen. But now, since He is Supreme, and hath joined truth, well applied, to a certainty of corresponding results, we shall most shamefully do violence to His Divine Sovereignty if we affect to doubt whether it will in fact be as He hath ordained that it shall be. If He had not joined means to ends it would be temerity to expect the one from the other.

But since He has, it would be doubting Him, contradicting Him, if we were not so to do.

To the diligent farmer God gives abundant increase, to the laborious artist remuneration corresponding to his skill. To the faithful minister, who rises betimes to sow the seeds of life and waters them with his tears, God will give him an abundant harvest; and the diligent Christian who employs all the means of truth within his reach, in humble reliance upon God, shall not be disappointed. He may expect growth in grace, and God will not falsify his hopes.

The Sovereignty of God is the sure ground upon which every one may build his hopes and not be disappointed. For God is not a man that He should lie, hath He said, and shall He not do it?

2. Success of ministry and Christian effort demand it for very constitution of our nature.

3. Only ground on which the multiplied institution of the Gospel can be available.[21]

Footnote 21:

These two subdivisions were not written out in full, blank spaces being left in the original for their fuller elaboration.

III. The third inference which I draw from this passage is that _the instrumentality of the truth, the efficiency of the means, does not detract from the power of God, but highly illustrates it_.

1. It will be observed in this passage that, although so much efficiency is given to truth, yet _God_ is continually speaking, and speaking, too, in the air of most sovereign authority. Truth is made to appear perfectly subservient to his Divine Will. “So shall _My_ word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that _which I please_, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto _I_ sent it.”

2. The reason why it illustrates and does not detract from God’s supremacy and power may now easily be seen. It shall do just what _God wishes_ to be done, and for which He appointed it, and for which He made it efficient. Besides this it can do nothing else. It can only do this because God so wills. Truth is not an agent acting, since God made it, independently of God, self-moved; nor is it to be turned by man to do as he wishes. It does what it was made to do, and God made it, so that all its effects are but new examples of the power of God. It hangs where God placed it, and shines in the sphere He circumscribed, and nowhere else.

3. It accomplishes this result, which belongs to it, not from any inherent virtue which redeems it from the power of God, and causes its effects to illustrate only its own power, but simply and always because _God pleases_ that it should do so. As its powers are enlarged and encompass greater results, so must be the conception of His power who clothed it with such efficiency.

And God always sustains truth, and those circumstances by which it can produce fitting results, and if He dropped them for one moment from His care they would perish.

Whoever, then, finds that the employment of means of truth is producing a forgetfulness of God, may be assured that he is using them wrongfully. It is a pernicious result wrought in him by abusing our constituted mode of action.

He who properly appreciates the notion of means and instrumentality will ever have most occasion to admire both the power and goodness of God, and His wisdom too, in that constitution of things which He has made. [Blank Page]

INDEX.

Abolitionists, feeling against, H. W. Beecher on, 268, 420; ostracized socially, 185; Webster, Daniel, on, 239.

_Advance_, the, organization of, 491.

Advisory Council (1874), assembling of, 526; call for, 523; deliverance of, 527; Plymouth invited at, declines, 527; protest against, a, 524.

Advisory Council (1876), assembling of, 543; Beecher, H. W., cautions on, to church, 539, statements at, 544–549, declared innocent by, 550, address to, at close, 552; call for, 537; committee on charges, advises an, 550, 558; composition of, 538; officers of, 543, 544; Plymouth sustained by, 549; principle of selection of, 538; questions submitted to, 538; Sturtevant’s, Dr., opinion of Mr. Beecher, 551; Wellman’s, Dr., opinion of Mr. Beecher, 550.

Allen, Ethan, remark of, on British cruelty, 35.

America, a “better England,” 25.

Amherst, Mass., in 1827, 93; Beecher’s, H. W., garden plot in, 96.

Amherst College in 1830, 112; Beecher’s, H. W., course at, 109-135; offers title of D.D. to Mr. Beecher, 391.

Anderson, Gen. Robert, tribute to, by Mr. Beecher, 452.

Anecdotes: Boston woman, the cross, 118; calf and bees, 637; cannon-ball, the, 87; cat in the organ, 382; cow, chase of the, 141; “Dinah, Crazy,” 243; dog Noble, 290; English beggar, 670; “follow-your-leader,” 85; Fulton omnibuses, 248; grammar, lesson in, 75, 76; Grant, Gen., and Mr. Beecher’s titles, 663; kite, the, 203; liquor-seller, the, 195; lions, two monstrous, 51; ruffian, the, 194; slaves, teaching of, 253; sleeper in church, 186; Stowe, Prof., outwitted, 141; tides, explanation of, 76; truant, the, 184; tub-raft, the, 208; “Tutor’s Delight,” 116.

Arthur, Chester A., opinion on, of Mr. Beecher, 575; on renomination of, 576.

Articles, H. W. Beecher’s, sources and characteristics of, 325, 326; Cause and Cure of Agitation (1850), 242; Christian’s Duty to Liberty (1854), 276; Church and Steamboat (1850), 350, 351; Contrast, The (1862), 335; Controversy, Harsh (1850), 244; Convictions, Various, and Sin (1852), 353; Country’s Need (1862), 328; Courage and Enterprise (1862), 324; Crisis, The (1854), 273; Defence of Kansas, 283; Degraded into Liberty (1852), 263; Different Ways of Giving (1850), 352; Disbanding of Bowdoin St. Church (1862), 98; Dog Noble and Empty Hole (1856), 290; Dull Meetings, One Cause of (1852), 353; Duty, The Great (1862), 327; Duty of the Hour (1862), 323; Duty of To-day (1862), 330; Flowers in Church (1802), 392; Fugitive Slave Bill (1850), 240; Ground, The Only (1862), 333; Hearts and No Hearts (1856), 287; Hours of Exaltation (1857), 373; Hymns, Church (1855), 366; Ice in the Church (1852), 353; Infidel Toast, The (1859), 389; Law and Conscience (1850), 240, 241; Leader for the People (1862) 332; Lind, Jenny (1850), 351; Litchfield Revisited (1856), 35; Liturgy, Church, 370; Men, not Slaves (1862), 323; Mountain and the Closet (1857), 373; Naval Discipline (1852), 355; Newspaper Report, on a (1852), 356; Our Help from Above (1862), 323; Patriotism of the People (1862), 329; Proclamation of Emancipation, on (1862), 336; Queer Pulpit, A (1862), 334; Reconstruction (1862), 333; Remember the Poor (1850), 352; Root of the Matter (1862), 331; Salutatory (1861), 321; Shall we Compromise? (1850), 237; Silence must be Nationalized (1856), 287; Time, The, has Come (1862), 332; Trumpet, The (1862), 335; Use of the Beautiful by Christians, 393; War with England (1861), 322; Word from the People to Congress (1862), 323; Working with Errorists (1859), 380.

Atchison, David R., in Kansas war, 277.

Bacon, Rev. Leonard, letters of, against Tilton, 527; letter of, on reconciliation, 559.

Barnes, Hiram (Litchfield), reminiscence of, 37.

Beach, Hon. W. A., convinced of H. W. Beecher’s innocence, 533.

Beecher, Rev. Charles, anecdotes by, of H. W. Beecher, 50; music, early work in, 92, 138, 139; recollections by, of boyhood, 57, 58, of Seminary days, 139.

Beecher, David, character of, 17; strength of, 20.

Beecher, Rev. Edward, promotes _Advance_, 491.

Beecher, Esther, influence of, on H. W. Beecher, 68, 69; in Brooklyn, 352; Mr. Beecher’s tribute to, 38.

Beecher, George (son of Lyman), death of, 204.

Beecher, Hannah, reminiscence of, 19.

Beecher, Harriet (daughter of Lyman)—see _Stowe, Harriet B._

Beecher, Harriet (wife of Lyman), arrival of, at Litchfield, 54; Beecher’s, H. W., opinion of, 65, religious instruction by, 77, tribute to, 143; death of, 143; home training, methods of, 65; impressions of Beecher family, 54, 55; marriage of, to Lyman Beecher, 53; reminiscence of, by Mrs. Stowe, 54.

Beecher, Henry (1570), notice of, 19.

Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, Administration, strictures on, in 1862, 328–331, 335; distrusted by, in 1863, 397, 443, feeling changed, 444. Advisory Council (1876), on, 538; cautions his people as to, 538; statements at, 544; challenge at, 545; demands production of letters, 549; declared innocent by, 550; address to, at close, 552. Agriculture, articles on, 182; studies in, 198; work in, 199. See under Farm, p. 698, and Peekskill, p. 701. Aid sought from, some samples of, 656. Ambition of, for enterprise, 89; personal, devoid of, 593, advice to a relative on, 593, 594. American, a typical, 25. Amherst College, enters, 109; course at, choice of, 112; studies at, 113; reminiscences by Dr. Field, 113, 115, by Dr. Haven, 113, by L. Tappan, 114, 117, by S. H. Emery, 114, by Rev. S. Hanks, 114; debate, a victory in, 114; “Tutor’s Delight,” 116; sports at, 117; financial difficulties, 117; plans to earn money, 118; in anti-slavery debate, 119; record at, 135. Ancestry of, 20, 21; its legacy of loyalty and truth, 24. Anderson, Gen. Robert, tribute to, 452. Art, effect of works of, 346–348; high, versus decorative, on, 645; his collection of prints, 646. Arthur, Chester A., praise of, 575; renomination of, reasons for desiring, 575, 576. Aspirations, on youthful, 89. Attainments of, at ten, 70, 71. Atonement, on doctrine of, 607. Auction-sale, slave, imitation of, 292. Audiences of, on early, 594. Autobiography of, preparations for, 673. Bacon’s, Dr. L., letter to, on reconciliation, 559; reply, 560. Bashfulness of, youthful, 70. Battle of, a youthful, 36. Beautiful, on Christian enjoyment of the, 393; in nature, his love for, 394. Beecher, Esther, tribute to, 38; influenced by, 68. Beecher’s, Harriet, impressions of, 55; instructed in religion by, 77; his tribute to, 143. Beecher, Lyman, estimate of, 17; effect on, of conduct of, 68, 69; indignant at persecution of, 151. Beecher, Roxana, tribute to, 24; recollections of, 47; influenced by memory of, 67, 554; opinion of, from her letters, 128. Beecher, Rev. T. K., reminiscence by, 90, 138. Belgian court, experiences at, 404. Bible, early analysis of, 137, 192; on method of reading, 642. Birth of, 37, 41. Birds, love for, 615, 616. Blaine, J. G., opinion of, 576; refuses to support, 577, threatened for refusal, 579; election of, on probable result of, 579. Books, on buying, 648. Boston, bells of, amazed at, 83; ships and Navy-Yard in, enthusiasm over, 84; on juvenile feuds of, 85; chief in, of “follow your-leader,” 85; cannon-ball, purloins a, 87; life at, in boyhood, 90–92; moral influence of, bad, 92; joins Bowdoin St. Church, 98; receives call to, 216; defence at, on scandal rumors, 535. Bowen, Henry C., hostility of, 490, 492; action of, in Tilton’s charge against Mr. Beecher, 511, charge published, 513, 514; on renewed charges of, 542, 543. Brattleboro, Vt., lecture at, 130–132. Brice, Pomona, help for, 293. Brooklyn, declines reception by Common Council of, 672. Brown, John, sermon on, 301. Brussels, visit to, in 1863, 403. Buchanan, Pres., on administration of, 305; on fast-day of, 307. Budington, Rev. W., church of, seeks to heal dissension in, 524; letter to, on its protest, 526. Callers, daily, description of, 657. Calvinism, early teaching in, 70, 77. Camp, life in, on dangers of, 319. Catechism, a failure at, 65. Character, moulding of, 44, 81; at seventeen, 108, 112; during college course, 113–116; in manhood, 258. Charity, on, 352; demands on his, 658. Charleston, S. C., invited to deliver address at (1865), 449; Stanton’s despatch concerning, 450; address at, 451–454; purpose of, in going to, 460. Children, love for, 639; a method of whipping, 640; his own, on newspaper report as to, 356; training of, 640; justice tempered by love, 641; advice to, on self-helpfulness, 641, on religion, on Bible-reading, 642, on study, 642, 643, on health and on duty, 643, on choosing profession, 643, on literary style, 644. Chimes, church, first experience with, 83. “Choosing good parents,” on, 17. Christianity, on power of, to crush slavery, 268. _Christian Union_, in control of, 491. Church, going to, when a boy, 59, promises made, 60, experiences at, 61; on growth of a, 227, 483; on proper work of a, 540. Church-bell, adventure with a, 60. Church-membership, on, 362. Cincinnati, O., family life at, 140; drives off his father’s cow, 141; constable at, a, 142; “family meeting” at, 142; _Journal_ of, editor of, 141. Cleveland, Pres., remarks on slanders against, 577; support of, reasons for, 577–580; on administration of, 587. Cleveland letters: invited as chaplain to convention, 461; reply to invitation, 465, public clamor against, 462, remarks on, 474, 475; Tyng’s, Dr., letter on, 469, reply, 470; Storrs’s, Dr., letter on, 471; Mr. Beecher’s second letter, 472, effect of, 477, Storrs, Dr., on, 477; assailed by _Independent_ for, 501. Coffee, effect of, 652. Colors, how affected by, 649–651. Compromise measures, article on, 236–238; Missouri Compromise, on repeal of, 273–277; appeal to ministers as to, 275, 276; on offer of, in 1860, 306; in general, on, 421; on proposal for, in 1864, 446. Congress, on proposed nomination to, 360. Congregational Association, resigns from, 567, 568; statement to, 568; remarks on criticisms of his action, 569. Congregational Church, estimate of, 610. Conspiracy against, beginning of, 494; statement on, 495–520, effect of publication of, 531; investigating committee, calls for an, 499, 528, action of, 529, 530; publicity of, motives for avoiding, 504, 519, 531, 544; _Eagle_, card in, as to Woodhull letters, 522; demands production of any letters, 529; letter to, of Pres. Porter, 532; on malignity of conspirators, 546, 553; on prompt demands for investigation, 547; on publishing of, 548; cost of, 549, 565; Shearman’s, T., part in, 549; reflections on, 557; hostility of press in, 558; nervous strain from, 558; English sympathy during, 668. Conscientiousness of, how developed, 65. Controversy, harsh, advice against, 244. Conversion of, 98; recollections of, 590. Correspondence of, how conducted, 658. Courage of, physical, in killing mad dog, 664. Country, intense love for, 416, 460. Courtship of, 121–127, on false reports as to effects of, 129; Saxon, description of, 127. Cowper, William, on style of, 644. Creditors, on duty to, 354. Cunard steamers, on bigotry upon, 350; falsehood as to, charged with, 351. D.D., declination of title of, 391. Daniel, Samuel, poem of, 134. Darkness, early spiritual, 78–81, 119–121, 604; darkness dispersed, 155. Davis, Jefferson, on proposed hanging of, 458. Death, impending, feelings of, 507, 508, 516, 556; of his brother George, 204; of his son George, 205; of his daughter “Caty,” 224; of his twin sons, 357; of three nephews 372; no fear of, 681, 682; remarks on, 682; his death, 676, wishes concerning, 681, private service at, 677, service in Plymouth, 678; burial of, 680; grave of, 680. Debate, early power in, 113, 114. Denominationalism, on, 611. “Depravity, total,” hatred of phrase, 380. Divine, the, early strivings for, 77, 78, 100. Doctrine, early knowledge of, 163, 165, 604; commended for, 612. Douglass, Fred, invitation to, to Plymouth, 248. Dramatic power of, early, 96. Ecclesiastical machinery, dislike of, 152, 153, 606. Edinburgh, Scotland, speech at, in 1863, 419–422. Editor, on power of an, 321; editorial articles, sources of, 325, characteristic features of, 325, 326. Edmonson sisters, in purchase of, 292. Elections of 1884, distrusts Mr. Blaine, 576; endorses Mr. Cleveland, 577, 578, remarks on, 578, answer to remonstrance on, 579, 580, answer to threat, 580; active work in, 580; review of, 584–586; excitement in, on calm after, 586. Ellsworth, Col., on death of, 313. Elocution, how acquired, 95, 96; gesture in, a favorite, 186. Emancipation, demands, 331, 332, 333, 335; Proclamation of, article on, 336; God’s will, resigned now to, 337, 338. England, on war with, 322, 412; departure for, in 1850, 339; impressions of Warwick Castle, Kenilworth, 340, of Cæsar’s Tower, Guy’s Tower, 341, of Stratford-on-Avon, 342, 344, of Oxford, Bodleian Library, 344, 345; Episcopal services in description of, 342–344; return from, 349. Departure for, in 1863, 396; motives for, 396, 397; on sympathy in, for South, 399, 400; arrival in, declines to speak, 400; Congregational clergy of, strictures on, 401; London, first speech in, 401, 402, second speech in, 432–436; United States, on English dread of, 402, 403; consents to speak in, 406; requests for speeches in, 407; Manchester, speech at, 408–414; offensive utterances against, denies, 416; Liverpool, speech in, 422–432, placarded in, enmity of press of, 422; speeches in, effect of, 436, 441; Storrs, Dr., on the work in, 437; impressions from the visit, 438–441; New York papers on his work in, 441; welcomes delegates from, to Boston Council, 613. Departure for, in 1886, 665; friends’ enthusiastic farewell, 666; retrospect on landing, 666, 668; likened in, to Gladstone, 669; preaching in London, 669; Westminster Abbey, visit to, 669; his work in, 670, 671; public meetings in, on customs at, 670; address in City Temple, 671; return from, 672. English-speaking peoples, claimed by all, 26. English classics, love for, 113, 114, 133; criticisms on, 145, 146. Episcopal Church, impressed by service of, 343; on liturgy of, 370; charged with disrespect towards, 371; vision of sermon in a, 377; tribute to, 610. Evil, method of combating, 194, 195, 217, 218, 219, 355. Evolution, sermons on, 567; belief in, 608, 609. Exhortation in social meetings, on, 353. Extemporaneous speech, early aptitude for, 113, 173. Farm, work on, beginning of, 57, 617; knowledge of farm-work, 199; on one use of a, 360; at Peekskill, 383, 619–638; work on, as a recreation, 617. Fishing, first experience at, 31; a confession as to, 614–616. Flowers, love for, 96, 616, 626; brings him a rebuke, 96; on abundance of, 392; pulpit, on use in, 393; at Boscobel, 626, 627; how influenced by, 627. Freedom of speech, on, 243, 245; on stifling of, in Kansas, 284. Fremont, on marriage of, 290. Fugitive Slave Law, articles on, 236–238, 240–244. Future punishment, on doctrine of, 608. Gaelic blood in, source of, 18. Garrison, William L., estimate of, 267. Glasgow, Scotland, speech in, in 1863, 414–419. Gospel, must preach it as revealed to him, 154. Gospels, an analysis of, 192; broad study of, 596. Government, divine, views on, 326; church, views on, 609. Graduates, advice to, 173. Grammar, youthful definition in, 75. Hall, Rev. Chas. H., deep friendship for, 677. Hammers, on animation of, 389. Harrington, Moody, helped by, 120. Health of, how founded, 31; impaired in 1849, 339, in 1863, 396; management of, 652; on duty as to, 651. Heaven, digging to find, 49. “Homeward Bound,” liking for, 379. Home-life of, 639. Honors, worldly, compared with ministry, 592. Hopkinton, Mass., teaching at, 129, 130. Horseback-riding, early attempt at, 55. Horticulture, love for, 96; studies in, 198; work in, 199; as an alterative, 394, 395. Humorousness, early, 115; some examples of, 75, 76, 116, 118, 122, 124. Hymns: see Music, p. 700. Imposed upon, remarks on being, 659. _Independent_, contributor to, 328, 488; editor of, 321, 488; Salutatory, 321; editorials in, in 1862, 322–336; assailed by, for Cleveland letters, 469, 491; resigns editorship, 490; severs connection with, 491. _Indiana Farmer_, editor of, 182, 185, 197. Indianapolis, called to, 179, accepts call, 180; recollections of parishioners, 181–187; his churches at, 181, 183, 207; his residences at, 182, 202; personal appearance at, 183; a refractory brother, 184; popularity at, 186, 203; an imitative tailor, 187; revivals at, sermon before Presbytery, 189; work in other towns, 190, 193; labors in, against crime, 194, 195; sermons at, on slavery, 195–197; painting his own house, 202; his class of girls at, 203; helps at kite-making, 204; recollections of, 206–209; tub, adventure with, 208; departure from, 216; success at, charged to plagiarism, 218; garden work at, 617. Infidelity, early victory over, 74. Infidels at Cincinnati, on the toast of, 381. Influences on, early, 65, 66; of Charles Smith, 66; of Esther Beecher, 68; of his father, 68, 69; in Boston, 83, 84. Information, early desire for, 108. Instruction, catechetical, soon forgotten, 69. Investigation, habit of, how acquired, 32. Johnson, Pres., letter to, on reconstruction, 460; stricture on, 470, 471; accepts policy of, 473. _Journal of Commerce_, criticism on, 334. Journals of, object in keeping, 144, 145; some extracts from, 109–112, 139, 144–150, 169, 339, 340. Judiciary, corrupt (1867–71), thunders against, 572, 573. Kansas, on emigration to, 284; sends arms to, 283, 286; on the contest in, 283, 301; strictures on Administration, 302. Knowledge, art of retaining, 647. Kossuth, Louis, on the visit of, 256; gift of Hungarian bracelet, 352. Labor, physical, views on, 199; in the North and the South contrasted, 418. Lane Seminary, influence of, 137; life at, 154; graduates from, 157. Latin, result of studies in, 88. Law, on obedience to, 241, 242. Lawrenceburg, called to, 157; removes to, plans, 158; church duties at, 159, 172; success and salary at, 173; housekeeping at, 174, 175; Thomas’s, Rev. J. H., reminiscences, 176; influence at, 177; on a gift of clothing, 178, 179; farewell sermon at, 180. Laws lacking public sentiment, on, 459. Leader, as a popular, 325. Lectures of, his first, 130–132; at Cincinnati in 1861, 309; during Rebellion, 319; politics and religion in, 390; purpose of, 564; field of, 564; proceeds of, how spent, 564; omitted during Conspiracy, 564; resumption of, reasons for, 564, 565; demonstrations at, 565, remarks on, 566; in Boston, reception at, 565; West, reception in, 566; Louisville, reception at, 566; first before Yale students, how prepared, 598; expenses in lecture-tours, 653. “Lectures to Young Men,” purpose of, 200; publishing of, 201. Left to himself in boyhood, 59. Lenox, Mass., farm at, 359, 618; work on, 360; relinquished, 372. Leopold, King, presented to, 403, 404; advice to, as to Mexico, 405. Letter of, an early, 50. Levée, adventures at a, 111. Library of, how founded, 131, 133; contents of, in 1835, 150, in later life, 646, 647; a working library, 647; remark on, 647. License, obtains a, 157. “Life of Christ,” first volume of, completed, 480, 674; second volume of, work on, 673, 674; prophetic remark concerning, 674. Lincoln, Pres., estimate of, work for, 304, 305; on call of, for troops, 327, 328; on vacillation of, in 1862, 329, 332, 333; on duty of, 331; on Emancipation Proclamation of, 336; on Southern commission of, in 1864, 446; tribute to, 447, 456; death of, 454, remarks on, 446, 455. Lind, Jenny, defence of, 351; reminiscence of, 351, 352. Liquor, on selling of, by Christians, 354; use of, 652, 653; on need of, except as medicine, 653. Litchfield, Conn., early life in, 31–33; visit to, in 1856, 35–38; reminiscences by people of, 36, 37; winter at, 62, 63; North Pole situated in, 63; visit to, in 1857, 373. Liturgy, on church, 370, 371. Liverpool, Eng., arrival in, in 1863, 400; talk in, a, 401; speech in, 422–432; placarded in, 422, 426; threatened with violence in, 423; risk in speaking in, 423; subject of speech, 423; reception at the hall, 424, 425. London, Eng., first speech in, in 1863, 401; second speech in, 432–436; voice in, threatened failure of, 432, 433; success in, 436; preaches in, in 1886, 669. Love, to enemies, on, 311–313; Christian, better than logic, 380; for friends, 658, “slopping over,” remarks on, 658, 659. McClellan, on defeat of, 328; criticism on, 331. Manchester, Eng., reception in, in 1863, 408, 409; subject of speech in, 409; speech in, 410–414; victory in, 410; effect of speech, 414. Manliness and power, source of, 21. Marriage of, 170, 171; of his daughter, 388. Mathematics, backwardness in, 94; opinion of, 114. Matteawan, N. Y., residence at, 372, 618. Medical schools, views on, 353, 354. Memory of, where defective, 647. Militia, on need of moral influence on, 661; as a member of, 660–663. Ministers, classification of, 149; should be joyous, 150; on duty of, as to slavery, 248–252, as to war-tax, 324, in public affairs, 360, as to preaching against evil practices, 361; spiritual office of, 370. See Preacher, p. 701. Mitchel, John, prophecy on, 266. Monarchies, excitements in, contrasted with United States, 585. Moral principles, sacrifices for, 312. Moulton, Frank, confidence in, 496, 497; letter to, June, 1873, 515; on letter from, 518; wife of, opposition to, 560. Mount Pleasant Institute, enters, 93; mathematics at, 94, 100; elocution at, 95; recollections of W. P. Fitzgerald and J. W. Lovell, 94, 95; chaplain of, rebukes H. W. Beecher, 96; life at, 97; studies at, 97, 100, 101; religious experiences at, 97–102; Bible work at, 99, 100; troubles at, 102; on card-playing at, 102; visit to, in 1849, 107; his character while at Institute, 108. Mourning, on outward symbols of, 676; Prussian queen, on tomb of a, 677. Music, early work in, 92, 124, 138, 139, 144; church music, on old methods of, 363; reform in, 365; “Plymouth Collection,” compilation of, 363–366; hymns, views on, 366, 368; music-writers, acquaintance with, 368, 369; at prayer-meeting, 378; organ, on value of, 600. Name of, its source, 41; names bestowed upon, 613. Nation above party, 577. Nature, love for, 32, 33, 59, 74, 96, acquired by study, 394; religious impressions connected with, 77; study of, for preaching, 596, 614, 615. Navy, American, on moral defect in, 355. Negroes, feeling toward, how influenced, 66; fugitive, on help to, 240, 241, 323, on return of, 252; on ostracism of, 247; on treatment of, by omnibuses, 247, 248; on freedom being given to eight, 263; treatment of, at North, 303; on slaves liberated by army, 323; on benefits to, of restoration of South, 463, 467, 473. Newell, Constantine, affection for, 104–106. New England stock, a product of, 25, 26. “Noble,” anecdote of, 290. Northbridge, Mass., teaching at, 130. Northern merchants, on boycott of, 247. Norwich, N. Y., impressions of, 389. “Norwood,” quoted, 88; published, 479. Observation, habit of, how gained, 32. Optimism, definition of, 585. Oratorical powers, imperceptible in youth, 70. Ordinances, church, view of, 609. Ordination, examination for, 161, 165, 166; Old School, refuses to subscribe to, 161, 162, 166; ordained, 163, 167. Original sin, on doctrine of, 607. Orthodoxy, definition of, 606; on tests of, 606, 607. Paris, visit to, in 1850, 346; art-galleries of, how affected by, 346–348, 349; Vicksburg, hears of fall of, while visiting, 405, effect on Southerners in, 406. Parker controversy, peacemaker in, 259; results, 260; letters on, 261, 262. Parker, Theodore, condemned for associating with, 380; tribute to, 381. Party, political, on blind subservience to, 577; on redemption of a, 581. Pastorates, short, opposed to, 180. Patriotism of, where nurtured, 35; strength of, 416. Paul, St., compared with, 588, 589. Peace (1861), denounces terms of, 310, 311. Peekskill, N. Y., farm at, 383; description of, 619, 620; cottage at, 620; improvements made, old apple-tree, 621, 622; products of, 623; early crops at, rivalry over, 623, 624; Turner, T. J., outwitted by Mr. Beecher, 624, thrifty nature of, 626; flowers at, 626; his “work” at, 627, 628; new house at, 628–630, chimney of, as a look-out, 629, decoration of, 630; trees and shrubs at, 630, 632; benefits derived from, 632; insects at, gratitude to, 632, 634; fowls at, 634, 635, the patent hatcher, 635, 636; cattle at, 636; bees at, 636, 637; dogs at, 637, remarks on “Tommy,” 638. Perseverance, thoughts on, 147. Personal attack, averse to, 354. Pessimism, definition of, 585. Phillips, Wendell, in Brooklyn, work for, 246. Phrenology, acceptance of, 130; lecturing on, 138, 144. “Pinky,” buying freedom of, 294–297. Plurality of wives of ancestors, remark on, 20. Plymouth Church, invited to come to, his answer, 210–213; called to, 214; accepts call, reasons, 214, 215; failure at, predicted, 217; first sermon at, 218; slavery, labors at, against, 219–221; installed, 221; success at, 222, 225; revivals at, work in, 222, 375, 391; prayer at, sample of a, 228; prayer-meeting, lecture, sociable at, 229-231; policy towards, 232; retrospect, a (1863), 337; prayer-meetings at, daily, 376, influence of, 377; on income of, 379; organ at, on a new, 382; on flowers in, 393; on Silver Wedding of, remarks at, 481–484; generosity of, in Conspiracy, 565; tribute to, 578; result of work in, 601; welcome at, in 1886, 672; funeral services at, 678; memorial service at, 680. “Plymouth Collection,” history of, 363–366; terms of publication of, 364; on alleged omission of Watts’s hymns from, 368. Political secret societies, on, 362. Politics, in the army, indignant at, 444; on honesty and morality in, 583. Prayer, early love for, 97, 100; sample of, 228; on extemporaneous, 371; at prayer-meeting, 378; reply to request for copy of a, 656. Prayer-meetings, method of conducting, 376, 377; on laughter in, 377. Preacher, his rank as a, 588; qualities as a, 589; parental faith his first incentive, 590; early training-school, 590; temperament as a, 591; high estimate of a, 592; early life as a, a happy period, 593; call to a, two essentials to, 594; discouraged, advice to a, 595; should consecrate every gift, 595. See Ministers, p. 700. Preaching, beginnings of, 130; first in the West, 149; naturalism in, 164; to preach Christ only, 167, 178, 193, 227; first real, at Indianapolis, 187; versatility in, 193; courage in, incidents of, 194, 195; means of relief from, 198; spirituality in, one source of, 391; estimate of, 588; on future scope of, 592; theory of, 595; involuntary preparation for, 596; influence of his, on theology, 602; manner in, an example, 605; preparation for, 597–600, 655. Precious stones, love for, soothing effect of, 649–651; relief derived from, at Liverpool, 650; reason for love of, 650, 651. Pride, early struggles with, 102. Private Journal of, at Amherst, 109; contents of, 109, 110. Profanity, on a case of, 642. Prussian queen, on tomb of a, 677. Pulpit, on freedom of, 248–252; duty of, as to war-tax, 324, in public affairs, 360, 361; as a popular educator, 362; preparation for, 655. “Puritan penitentiary,” not born in a, 57. Rats, at Litchfield, description of, 63. Rebellion, on enlistment of son for, 310; interest of, in organizing militia, 314; sacrifices for, 316; Fourteenth Regiment, equipment of, 316, sermon to, 317; Sixty-seventh Regiment, equipment of, 317, 488; Union soldier, on duty of, 317, 318; Bull Run defeat, on, 350; on Administration’s inactivity and mismanagement, 324, 325, 328, 329, on duty of, 330, 331; God’s leadership in, prayer for, 332; Union success in, confident of, 333; Confederacy and Administration contrasted, 335; state of, in 1863, 397; enormous army, should be crushed by an, 443; troops in, should be no distinction between, 443; end of, joy at, 451, 455; brought on by Southern politicians, 454. Reconstruction of South, on President’s duty in (1862), 333; speech on, 458; letter on, to Pres. Johnson, 460; on benefits of, to colored race, 463; on military government in, 465, 466. Recreation, mental, how taken, 394, 395. Religion, meaning of, 642. Religious experience of, at Litchfield, 65–69, 76–81; at Mt. Pleasant, 97–102; at Amherst, 119–121; at Lane, 154, 155; spiritual exaltation (1857), 373; influence of early, 604. Republican party, work for, in 1856, 289, in 1860, 304, 305, in 1864, 571; esteem of, 471; in sympathy with (1866), 473; favors election of members of, to Congress (1866), 475; corruption in, labors against, 574; reasons for not working for, 581–583; still a member of, 584. Republics, on political excitement in, 583. Reputation, on posthumous, 557. Responsibility, on individual, 219. Retort, quickness of, 252, 253. Revivals, at Litchfield, 81; at Mt. Pleasant, 98; at Amherst, 119; at Terre Haute, 191, 192; at Plymouth, 222, 231, 391; method of conducting, 375–378. Romance of, an early, 103. Ruskin, John, tribute to, 394. Sadness, a tendency to, 345, 346, 500, 556. Sailor, on needs of the, 355. St. Louis Library Association, asked to lecture before, 389; matters to be avoided, his reply, 390. Salisbury, Conn., on beauties of, 356. Salvation, on, 379. Sarah —, buying freedom of, 298–300. Saviour, vision of sufferings of, 377. Scepticism, a touch of, 154, 164. Scholar, desires to be a, 593. School life, beginning of, 49, 50; experiences at district school, 51–53, at Mr. Brace’s and Mr. Langdon’s, 72, 74, at Catharine Beecher’s, amusing incidents, 75, 76; progress in his studies, 83; at Mt. Pleasant, 93–108. Schools, the two Presbyterian, views on, 163. Scott, Walter, early critique on, 145. Sea-life, determines on, 89; to study for it, 90, 93; design abandoned, 99. Seasons, allegorical view of, 616. Sectarianism, on, 611, 612. Sermons, illustrations for, how acquired, 32; his earliest, 130; first Western, 149; first at Lawrenceburg, 173; record book of, 179, 192; at Indianapolis, 186, 187; modelled on Apostles’, 188; proper aim of, 188; sermon on “Prodigal Son,” 189; first sermon in Plymouth, 218, outline of, 229; issued in book form, 479; Thanksgiving, custom in, 584; note-books on, 596; method of preparing, 597–600, 655, remarks on, 655; the one at Charleston, 599, at Stamford, 599; method of delivering, 600; fruits of, 602; must be delivered immediately, 656; trial sermon, 687. Seward, Wm. H., opinion of, 305. Shakspere, early criticism on, 146. “Shining Shore,” a favorite with, 366, 379. Sickness, thoughts on, 147; his final, 675. Slavery, work done against, at Amherst, 119, at Indianapolis, 185, 195–197; course on, defined, 217–220, 242; on Church’s timidity towards, 221; Fugitive Slave Law, articles on, 236–238, 240–244; leader against, an acknowledged, 244; pulpit labor against, defence of, 248–252; tenacity of anti-slavery, on cause of, 257, instrumentalities for, use of, 266; Constitution, ballot, Church, as forces against, 267; Christianity against, on power of, 268; battle against, religious element in, 269, 270; on treatment of, 303, 331; military question, a, 331; system of, requires ignorance, 417. Sleep, habits as to, 654. South, not safe to visit, 426; on reconstruction of, 453, 458, 461; on kindness to people of (1865), 454; on effect of exclusion of, 459, 468, 473; affection for, 460; faith in honor of, 463; on restoration of States of, 465–468, Northern fear of, 466, 467; to be effected by Republican party, 477; on results to, of elections of 1884, 587; mediation for, 612. Speculative, early aptitude for the, 78, 79. Spiritualism, disbelief in, 363. Sports, youthful, superiority in, 85, 108. Stanton, Edwin M., encouraging note to, reply, 447; requested by, to go to Charleston, 449; telegram from, on Sheridan’s success, 450. Stockton, Col.], recommends to Lincoln, 443. Storrs, Dr. R. S., reasons for not confiding in, 520; attempted reconciliation with, 561. Stowe, Rev. Calvin E., indebtedness to, 137; a joke on, 141. Strength of paternal ancestry of, 19. Studies, in youth, backward in, 70, 74, 102. Study, on wrong method of, 643. Style, literary, remarks on, 644. Sumner-Brooks affair, speech on, 287; article on, 288. Sunday, influences of, when a boy, 62. Synod meeting, description of, 152. Tasks of, in boyhood, 64. Taxes for war, on, 323; Christian’s duty as to, 324. Tea, effect of, 652. Temperance, early work in, 130, 138, 144, 147; in Lawrenceburg, 185; “teetotal” at Oxford, Eng., 345; to his daughter, on practice of, 384; use of liquors as medicine, 652, 653. “Temple Melodies,” compilation of, 363; name omitted from title of, 364. Terre Haute, Ind., reminiscence of, 190–192. Theologian, as a, 602, 603; estimate of, 603. Theology, proposes to find a universal, 570; his influence on, 604; theological disputes, hatred of, 604, 605; dislike of, reason for, 606; future, on the, 609. Thirteenth Regiment, accepts chaplaincy of, 660; sword a source of trouble, 662; military orders, experience with, 662, 663; title in, 663. Tides, youthful definition of, 76. Tilton, Theodore, affection for, 489, 500; first charge of, 493; called on to leave Brooklyn by, 494, 503; efforts to reclaim, 495, 497; opinion of, to Bowen, 503; self-accusations of unintentional wrong to, 505; moral conduct of, deceived in, 509; urges him to break with Mrs. Woodhull, 510; on bad traits of, 516; promise to, as to Mrs. Tilton, 517; payment to, of $5,000, 519; openly charged by, 527; charge changed by, 532; civil suit by, 533. Tilton, Mrs. T., advice asked by, as to separation, 502; letter to, Feb. 17, 1871, 507; letter to, on Woodhull scandal, 513. Tools, readiness with, 64. Travel, foreign, religion weakened by, 384. Trinity, on doctrine of, 607. Tripartite agreement, part in, 512; honored by him alone, 520. Trouble, on surmounting, 374; how affected by, 499. Trouting, letter on, 357. Trust in God, on, 379; how strengthened, 616, 617. Truth, desire for, 212. “Tutor’s Delight,” the, 116. Tweed frauds, denunciations of, 572. Twin sons of, birth of, 352; death of, 357. Undenominational spirit of, 163, 167, 227, 483, 611. Unitarian reaction in Massachusetts, on the, 83; Sabbath-school, on ostracism of a, 355, 356. Vicksburg and Gettysburg, on victories of, 405, 406. War, views on, 312, 313, 398; Christians in, on bearing of, 314; with England, on, 322. Welsh blood in, source of, 19. White Mountains, summer services in, 660. Widowerhood, possible, remark on, 20. Woman, reverence for, 554. Writing-paper, dislike of foreign, 387. Young, fondness for, 184, 185, 203; “Lectures to Young Men,” 199.

Beecher, Mrs. H. W., an accident to, 385; determination of, 386; Beecher’s, Henry W., letter to, on his health, 653; Lawrenceburg, description of pastorate at, 172, of housekeeping at, 174; retrospect by, of Mr. Beecher’s youth, 121–127; wedding of, 170; journey to West, 171.

Beecher, John, a pioneer of New Haven Colony, 19.

Beecher, Joseph, reminiscence of, 19; strength of, 20.

Beecher, Nathaniel, reminiscence of, 19; strength of, 20.

Beecher, Rev. Lyman, affection of, for his wife, 26. Beecher, Roxana, opinion of, 24, 26. Birth and childhood of, 18. Boston, removal to, 82. Character of, 17, 26, 27. Children of, their regimen, 46; tulip-bulbs, adventure with, 47; at their mother’s death, 49; some amusements of, the cat’s funeral, 56; treatment of, by their father, 57; fishing trip, a, spoiled, 58; teaching of, by their father 58; father’s spirit, influenced by, 68. Cincinnati, household at, 138–140; family meeting at, 142. College, preparation for, 19. Courtship of, 26. Death of, H. W. Beecher on, 681. Duelling, effect of sermon on, 27. East Hampton, life and labors at, 27; departure from, 29. Farm life, disgusted with, 18. Financial difficulties, faith under, 117. Indomitable spirit of, infused into his children, 68, 69. Kindness of, abused, remark on, 659. Lane Seminary, president of, 136, 160; instruction at, method of, 137; heresy, charged with, 151, 160; union of churches, wish for, 160. Letters of, to Roxana Foote, 26, 27. Litchfield, called to, 29; dwelling at, 38, 62, rats in, 63; household at, 38, H. W. Beecher on, 553; ideal home, an, 40; labors at, made a mental stimulus, 58; visit to, in 1857, 373. Marriage of, to Roxana Foote, 27; to Harriet Porter, 53. Missionary societies in Connecticut formed by, 42. New School, battle for, 151. Orthodoxy, zeal for, 82. Plymouth Church, at a revival in, 376. Religious temperament of, 26. Shrewdness of, in H. W. Beecher’s sea project, 90. Society for Prevention of Vice in Connecticut formed by, 42. Synod, moderator of, 152. Temperance, action on, 42. Unitarian reaction, protest against, 82. United States in 1813, remarks on, 41. Woodspell, the yearly, 58.

Beecher, Roxana, accomplishments of, 23. Ancestry of, 21, 22. Beecher’s, H. W., estimate of, 128; her influence on, 67, 554. Courtship of, 26. Death of, 48. East Hampton, L. I., life in, 27. Education of, how acquired, 23. Episcopal Church, member of, 23, 24. Letters of, to Lyman Beecher, 26. Love of, for her husband, 26. Parents of, loyal to king, 23. Personal characteristics of, 23, 24. Recollections of, 47. Religious temperament of, 24, 26. School of, in East Hampton, 28. Science, interest in, 40. Trials of, some, 40.

Beecher, Rev. Thomas K., reminiscences by, of Henry and Charles, 90, 138.

Benton, Lot, Lyman Beecher brought up by, 18.

Big Bantam Lake (Litchfield), 31.

Blaine, James G., H. W. Beecher on, 576, 577.

Blake, G. Faulkner, in ransom of slaves, 294.

Boscobel—see _Peekskill_.

Boston, Mass., bells of, 83; Beecher’s, H. W., life in, 90–92, adventure with cross woman of, 118, rumors in, against, 534, 546, rumors refuted, 535; reception in, at lecture, 565; Beecher, Lyman, removes to, 82, dwelling at, 85; feuds of, juvenile, 85; Navy-Yard of, H. W. Beecher’s enthusiasm over, 84, purloins cannon-ball from, 87; ships of, impress H. W. Beecher, 84; sport of, a juvenile, 85.

Bowen, Henry C., H. W. Beecher’s dispute with, as to accounts, 489, scandalous hints concerning, 490, hatred of, intensified by resignation, 492, bitter enemy to, 494, promises support to, 504, renews charges against, 542, proposed committee on, 543; card of, on black-listing, 247; Conspiracy, part in, 493; Plymouth Church, dropped by, 543; Tilton, Theodore, early troubles with, 491, reasons for reducing, 503, charged by, with scandalous stories, 511; tripartite agreement, part in, 512.

Brice, Pomona, help afforded to, 293.

Brooklyn, N. Y., H. W. Beecher called to, 187, 210–216, speech at, on return from England, 438, in answer to Wendell Phillips, 458; Common Council of, tender reception to Mr. Beecher, 672; Fourteenth Regiment, equipment of, 316; martial spirit in, in 1861, 314; services in, at death of Mr. Beecher, 680; slaves ransomed in, 292–300; Thirteenth Regiment of, elects Mr. Beecher chaplain, 660.

Brooks, Preston S., attack of, on Charles Sumner, 286; Mr. Beecher on, 287, 288.

Brown, John, H. W. Beecher on, 301, 302; name of, a war-cry, 301; sketch of, 300.

Brussels, Belgium, visit to, of Mr. Beecher, 403.

Buchanan, Pres., administration of, 305; election of, 291; fast-day of, 307.

Budington, Rev. W. I., Advisory Council (1876), refuses to attend, 544; Beecher, H. W., enmity to, 521; church of, divided on calling council, 523, protest on, 524, letter to, from Mr. Beecher, on protest, 526.

Bull Run defeat, H. W. Beecher on, 320; effect of, at North, 319, 320.

Burgess, Deacon, annually nominated for Legislature, 22.

Burr, Betsey, 38.

Calhoun, John C., on Compromise Bill, 236.

California, admission of, as State, 235.

Calvinism, H. W. Beecher’s early training in, 70, 77; Beecher’s, Lyman, zeal for, 82; reaction against, in Massachusetts, 82, 83.

Catlin, Dr. (Litchfield), reminiscence of, 36.

Charleston, S. C., exercises at, in 1865, addressed by Mr. Beecher, 449–454; his sermon at, how prepared, 599.

Chestnut Hill (Litchfield), 30.

Children, H. W. Beecher’s love for, 639; method of whipping, one, 640; advice to his children on self-help, religion, Bible-reading, study, health and duty, choosing profession, literary style, 641–644.

_Christian Union_, H. W. Beecher editor of, 491; formation of, 491.

Cincinnati, O., in 1834, 153; Beecher’s, H. W., lecture in, in 1861, 309.

_Citizen_, Brooklyn, on burial of Mr. Beecher, 680.

Clay, Henry, Compromise measure of, 235, Beecher, H. W., on, 237; Omnibus Bill of, 236.

Cleveland, Grover, slanders against, Mr. Beecher on, 577, 578; supported by, in 1884, 577–580.

Cleveland, O., army and navy convention at, object, 461, 464; invitation of, to Mr. Beecher, 461.

Cleveland letters, history of, 461–478; invitation to Mr. Beecher by convention, 461; reply, 465, public clamor against, 462; second letter, 472.

Cobden, Richard, on English sympathy for American Union, 440.

Compromise measures, acceptance of, by political parties, 257; Beecher, H. W., on, 236–238, 306, 421; evil of, 235; introduction of, in Congress, 233; object of, 235; passage of, 238; popular endorsement of, 257, 265.

Congregational Association, H. W. Beecher resigns from, 567, statement to, 568; resolution of, on resignation, 568.

Congregational Church, proposed liturgy for, 370; Beecher, H. W., on extemporaneous prayer in, 371; of England, favors Confederacy, 400, 402, Mr. Beecher on, 401; Mr. Beecher’s estimate of, 610.

Connecticut, Congregational churches of, withdraws aid from, 42; Society for Prevention of Vice, missionary societies in, 42; temperance question, 42.

Conspiracy, the, H. W. Beecher’s account of, 495–520, on malignity of, 546; beginning of, 493, 494; Boston, rumors in, concerning, 534, Mr. Beecher’s defence at, 535; Bowen’s, H. C., part in, 493; civil suit, the, 533; Moulton, Mrs., against Mr. Beecher, 534; cost of, to Mr. Beecher, 549; end of, 562; “False Secret,” the, 563; history of, 488–563; investigating committee on, 499, 527–530, members of, Mr. Beecher’s letter to, 528; Moulton, Frank, joins, 494; tripartite agreement in, 496, 497, 511, 512; Woodhull scandal in, 513.

Cowper, William, style of, 644.

Cuba, annexation of, 280, 282; expedition against, 281.

Cunard steamers, H. W. Beecher on bigotry on, 350, 351.

Cutler, W. T., in Mr. Beecher’s call East, 210, 213; letter to, of Mr. Beecher, 210.

Daniel, Samuel, poem of, quoted, 134.

Dayton, George, neighbor at Peekskill, 623.

Democratic party, divisions in, in 1863, 398; losses of, in 1854, 273; success of, in 1852, 257, in 1856, 291.

Douglas, Stephen A., resolution of, to repeal Compromise, 272.

Douglass, Fred., invited to attend Plymouth Church, 248.

Dred Scott decision, the, 281; logical results of, 282.

_Eagle_, Brooklyn, Tilton’s infamous article in (1873), 514.

East Hampton, L. I., Beecher family in, 27, departure from, 29; school in, of Roxana Beecher, 28.

Edinburgh, Scotland, H. W. Beecher’s speech in, 419–422.

Editor, H. W. Beecher on power of an, 321; editorial articles of, sources, 325; their characteristic features, 325, 326.

Edmonson sisters, freedom of, purchased, 292, 293.

Election of 1884, H. W. Beecher’s work in, 575–583; review of, 585, 586.

Ellsworth, Col., H. W. Beecher on death of, 313.

Emancipation, H. W. Beecher demands, 331, 332, 333; Proclamation of, article on, 336.

Emery, S. Hopkins, reminiscences by, of H. W. Beecher, 114.

Emigration societies, to aid fight in Kansas, 279.

England: America, introduced slavery into, 431. Beecher’s, H. W., visit to, in 1850, 339–349; impressions of Warwick, Kenilworth, 340, of Cæsar’s and Guy’s Towers, 341, of Stratford-on-Avon, 342, 344, of Oxford, Bodleian Library, 344, 345. Trip to, in 1863, 396–436; speeches in Manchester, 408–414, in Liverpool, 422–432, in London, 432–436; effect of speeches, 436, 441. Visit to, in 1886, 665–672; Westminster Abbey, visit to, 669; on customs at public meetings in, 670; address in City Temple, 671. Classes in, upper, favor Confederacy, 339, 400, 438, reasons for, 439; laboring classes favor North, 400, 440. Confederate cruisers, building of, stopped, 410. Congregational clergy in, favor South, 400, 402; H. W. Beecher on, 401. Parliament of, willing to declare for South, 406. Product of institutions of, in New England, 25. Public meetings in, customs at, 670. Queen of, a friend to North, 439. Confederacy, results in, of its success, 429; feeling in favor of, universal, 438. Vicksburg and Gettysburg, effect of victories at, 406, 441. War with, H. W. Beecher on, 322, 412. United States, reasons for wishing disruption of, 402, 403, 439, 440; material reasons for supporting Northern cause, 428, 429.

_Express_, New York, on Fremont’s marriage, 291.

“False Secret,” the, 563.

Fast-day, Buchanan’s, 307.

Field, Thomas P., reminiscences by, of H. W. Beecher, 96, 113, 115.

Fitzgerald, W. P., H. W. Beecher’s instructor in mathematics, 94.

Foote, James, notice of, 21.

Foote, Nathaniel, notice of, 21.

Foote, Roxana—see _Beecher, Roxana_.

Foote, Roxana Ward, names H. W. Beecher, 41; notice of, 22.

Foote, Samuel, reminiscence of, 38.

Fourteenth Regiment, formation of, 316; H. W. Beecher’s sermon to, 317.

Freedmen—see _Negroes_.

Freedom of speech, H. W. Beecher on, 243–245; on stifling of, in Kansas, 284.

Fremont, John C., marriage of, used against him, 290; nominated for President, 288; religion of, 291.

Garrison, William L., H. W. Beecher on, 267.

Gettysburg, victory at, effect in England, 406.

Glasgow, Scotland, H. W. Beecher’s speech in, in 1863, 414–419.

Gould, Judge, law-school of, at Litchfield, 34, 37; reminiscence of, 36.

Grant, Gen., and Mr. Beecher’s military titles, 663.

Guilford, Conn., 22, 23.

Hall, Rev. Charles H., friendship of, for H. W. Beecher, 677; preaches at his death, 678.

Hanks, S. W., reminiscence by, of H. W. Beecher, 114.

Harrington, Moody, a religious helper to H. W. Beecher, 120, 121.

Haven, John, reminiscence by, of H. W. Beecher, 113.

Hopkinton, Mass., H. W. Beecher’s school at, 129.

Hubbard, Aunt Mary, 38; death of, 42.

_Independent_, the, H. W. Beecher’s early contributions to, 320, 488, editor of, 321, 488, editorials in (1862), 322–336, assailed in, for Cleveland letters, 469, 491, 501; conduct of, protest against, 491; influence of, early, 490; purpose of, 321; rivals of, 491, 492; Tilton, Theodore, editor of, 490, resigns, 492.

Independent Republicans, H. W. Beecher on, 561, 583.

Indianapolis, Ind., H. W. Beecher called to, 179, 181, his churches at, 181, 183, departure from, 216; condition of, in 1839, 181, 206; railroad train from, the first, 207, 216.

Indians, antiquities of, at Litchfield, 31; Lyman Beecher’s labors among, 27.

Ingersoll, Mrs., reminiscence of, 72.

Investigating Committee (in Conspiracy), asked for, by Mr. Beecher, 528; report of, 530.

Ireland, American sympathy for, 265.

Johnson, Pres., plan of, as to reconstruction, 458, H. W. Beecher to, 460; course of, Northern anger against, 462, 469–471.

Jones, Mr., part of, in “Temple Melodies,” 363, 364.

_Journal of Commerce_, New York, H. W. Beecher’s criticism on, 334.

Kansas, H. W. Beecher on the contest in, 283, 301; Brown, John, in, 300; emigrants to, rush of, 279, H. W. Beecher on, 284; forces in, opposing, 280; freedom, personal, endangered in, 284; governors of, deposed, 282; importance of, in slavery contest, 277; Lecompton Constitution, adoption of, 278, rejected by the people, 282; Legislatures of, the two, 279, 280; rifles sent to, by Mr. Beecher, 283, 286; situation in, in 1855, 278; slave-laws of, 278, 284; Topeka Constitution, adoption of, 279; war in, beginning of, 271, deeds committed in, 279, results of, 282, 300.

Kilbourne, “Ma’am,” H.W. Beecher’s first teacher, 50.

Kossuth, Louis, sketch of, visit to America, 256, 352.

Landon, Sheriff, reminiscence of, 37.

Lane Seminary, Ohio, Lyman Beecher president of, 136, gives earnest tone to, 137; object of, 136; slavery question at, 137.

Langdon, Mr., school of, attended by H. W. Beecher, 72; teaching, method of, 74.

Lawrenceburg, Ind., H. W. Beecher called to, 157, residence at, 174, 176, success at, 173, 176; church of, independent, 162, 167; description of, 158, 159.

“Lectures to Young Men,” purpose of, 200; publishing of, 201.

Lecture-room talks of H. W. Beecher: Conversion of Philippian Jailer (1858), 376; Division in Presbyterian Church, 163; Emancipation Proclamation, 337; Love to Enemies, 311.

Lenox, Mass., H. W. Beecher’s farm at, 359, 360, 618; residence at, given up, 372.

Leopold, King, receives H. W. Beecher, suggests compromise in Rebellion, 404; Mr. Beecher’s advice to, on Mexico, 405.

Letters quoted: Beecher, H. W., to Dr. Bacon, March, 1876, 560. To Barnabas Bates, October 12, 1852, 261. To Mrs. Beecher, May 17, 1849, 106; 1873, 508; on his health, 654. To Edward Beecher, July 11, 1829, 99; August, 1829, 100. To William Beecher, 1832, 129. To Dr. Budington, 1874, 526. To W. T. Cutler, December 15, 1846, 210. To Richard Hale, October 12, 1852, 261. To Indianapolis Church, August 12, 1847, 214. To Investigating Committee, 1874, 528. To R. W. Landis, October 12, 1852, 262. To Frank Moulton, June, 1873, 515. To Plymouth Church, August 19, 1847, 215. To S. Scoville, on Ambition, 594. To St. Louis Library Association, 1859, 390. To Mrs. Tilton, November, 1872, 513. To New York _Tribune_, 268, 269. To Dr. Tyng, September 6, 1866, 470. To his sister, 1817, 50; December 24, 1828, 97; March 1, 1830, 101; 1831, 117; 1837, 171. To his daughter, November, 1853, 358; June 24, 1854, 358; 1859, 383, 384; February 11, 1860, 385; February 14, 1860, 387. To his children, 642–646. To Colonel of Thirteenth Regiment, December 19, 1884, 662; February 12, 1885, 663. Bacon, Dr. Leonard, to H. W. Beecher, February 27, 1876, 559. Moulton, Frank, to H. W. Beecher, June 1, 1873, 517. Storrs, R. S., to H. W. Beecher, November 2, 1872, 520. St. Louis Library Association to H. W. Beecher, 1859, 389. Tyng, Dr. S. H., to H. W. Beecher, 1866, 469.

“Life of Christ,” first volume of, completed, 480, 674; second volume of, work on, 673, 674; prophetic words of Mr. Beecher on, 674.

Lincoln, Pres., H. W. Beecher’s confidence in, 304; work for, 305; on call of, for soldiers, 327, 328; on vacillation of, in 1862, 329, 444; on invincible purpose of, in 1863, 398; visit to, in 1864, 446; tribute to, 447. Emancipation Proclamation of, 336. Nomination of, 304. Restoration of South, favors immediate, 465. Nomination of, for presidency, 304.

Lind, Jenny, H. W. Beecher’s defence of, 351.

Litchfield, Conn., antiquities of, 31; appearance of, in 1856, 35–38; Beecher, Lyman, called to, 29, residence and household at, 38, 62, 63; courts of, their brilliancy, 34; description of, by H. W. Beecher, 30; education and religion, reputation for, 33, 34; foundation of, wisdom shown in, 33; natural beauties of, 32, 33; paradise, a, for a boy, 31; patriotism of, during Revolution, 34; school of, H. W. Beecher at, 51–53; situation of, 30, 31; winter in, H. W. Beecher on, 62.

Litchfield Hill, 30.

Little Pond (Litchfield), 31.

Liverpool, England, Mr. Beecher’s first speech in, in 1863, 401, second speech, 422–432, placarded in, 422, threats against, 423, reception of, 424; _Courier_ of, on Mr. Beecher, 422.

London, England, Mr. Beecher’s first speeches in, in 1863, 401, 402; second speech in, 422–436.

Lord, Mrs. (Litchfield), reminiscence of, 37.

Love, Mr., author of “Shining Shore,” 366.

Lovell, John E., Mr. Beecher’s instructor in elocution, 95.

McClellan, Gen. George, defeat of, 327; H. W. Beecher on, 328.

McLean, Judge John, on H. W. Beecher’s slavery sermons, 196, 197.

Manchester, Eng., Mr. Beecher’s speech at, 408–414.

Mason, Lowell, on hymn-music, 365.

Massachusetts Emigrant Company, work of, 279.

Matteawan, N. Y., Beecher family at, 372, 618.

Missouri Compromise, the, 235; repeal of, proposed, 272, effected, 277, clerical protest against, 273, H. W. Beecher’s articles on, 273–277.

Mitchel, John, H. W. Beecher’s prophecy on, 266; slavery, views on, 265.

Moulton, Frank, assurances of, to H. W. Beecher, 496, 497; urges him to write to Mrs. Tilton, 507; urges letter from, clearing Tilton, 515; letter to, June 1, 1873, 517; innocence of, affirms, 518. Conspiracy against Mr. Beecher, joins, 494. Indicted by Grand Jury, 533. Investigating Committee, fails to attend, 529. Part of, in $5,000 to Tilton, 519. Tilton’s cause, advocacy of, 505. Wife of, dropped by Plymouth, results, 534.

Montague, George, recollections by, of H. W. Beecher, 93, 95.

Mount Pleasant Institute, appearance of, in 1849, 107; Beecher, H. W., enters, 93; lotteries at, 118; standing of, 94.

Mount Tom Hill (Litchfield), 30; signal station at, ancient, 31.

Music, H. W. Beecher’s early work in, 92, 124, 138, 139, 144; church music, an old method of, 363, reform in, 365; “Plymouth Collection,” compilation of, 363–366; hymn-music, H. W. Beecher’s views on, 366–367; organ, value of, to H. W. Beecher, 600.

Napoleon III., Mexican campaign of, sympathy with Confederacy, 399.

Negroes, H. W. Beecher on help to fugitive, 240, 241, on return of, 252; on social ostracism of, 247; on treatment of, at North, 247, 248, 303; on freedom given to eight, 263; on benefits to, from admission of South, 463, 467; suffrage refused to, 474.

Nettleton, Mr., revival by, at Litchfield, 77, 80.

Newell, Constantine, character of, 106; covenant of, with H. W. Beecher, 104; history of, 105.

New England, H. W. Beecher a product of, 25, 26; influence of, on the nation, 25; slavery in, Mr. Beecher on, 250.

New Jersey, slave erased from Prayer-Book of, 254.

New York, law of, as to slaves, 251.

New York City, corrupt judiciary of (1867–71), 572.

North, the, admission of Southern States, fear from, 466, 467; blockade by, in 1863, 399; feeling at, against Compromise, 235, 236, for Compromise, 238; Fugitive Slave Law, abhorrence of, 239, 240; industry in, universal, 418; merchants at, black-listed, 247; political parties in, in 1863, 398; population and intelligence of country resident in, 413; Rebellion, military ardor in, in 1861, 314, 315, desolation from, 315, unity of, not to be broken by, 327, conflicting schemes in, 330, army of, in 1863, 397; slavery at, abolition of, 251; soldiers of, on exclusion of South, 461, 462; Sumter, Fort, excitement over fall of, 314; workingman, doctrine as to (1863), 419.

Norwich, N. Y., H. W. Beecher on, 389.

“Nutplains,” Roxana Foote at, 22–24, 26, 27.

Omnibus Bill, Clay’s, 236.

Omnibuses of New York and negroes, 247, 248.

Ostend Manifesto, the, 280.

Oxford Presbytery, rule of, as to licenses, 159, 166; H. W. Beecher examined by, 161, 162, 166.

Paris, France, H. W. Beecher’s visit to, its art-galleries, 346–348.

Parker, Theodore, H. W. Beecher on, 380, 381.

Parker, Dr. (London), tribute of, to Mr. Beecher, 669.

Parker, — (Litchfield), reminiscence of, 37.

Parker controversy, the, 257–262.

Peekskill, N. Y., farm at, 383; description, 619, 620; cottage at, 620; old apple-tree at, 621; products of, 623; flowers at, 626; new house at, 628–630, decoration of, 630; trees and shrubs at, 630, 632; fowls at, 634, the patent hatcher, 635; cattle at, 636; bees at, 636, 637; dogs at, 637, “Tommy,” 638.

Phillips, Wendell, experiences of, in Brooklyn, 246.

Phrenology, H. W. Beecher’s adoption of, 130.

Pierce, Pres., Ostend Manifesto inspired by, 280; peace, hopes for, 265; qualifications of, for office, 257.

Pierce, Misses, ladies’ school of, at Litchfield, 34; reminiscence of, 36.

“Pinky,” freedom of, bought at Plymouth, 294–296.

Plymouth Church, Advisory Council (1874), declines to attend, 527; deliverance of, how affected by, 527. Advisory Council (1876), calls an, 537; composition of, 538; questions discussed by, 538; sustained by, 549; recommends committee on charges, 550. Beecher, H. W.. generosity to, in Conspiracy, 565; his sermons in, in 1864, 571; welcome to, in 1886, 672; service in, at death of, 678; memorial service in, 680. Building, the new, 387. Burning of first building, 222. Call of, to Mr. Beecher, 214. Condition of, in 1858, 374. Courtesy at, by pewholders, 379, 380. Danger to, from mobs, 246. Debt of, extinguished (1851), 353. Flowers in, introduction of, 392. Formation of, 213, 214. Generosity of members of, 216. Growth and popularity of, 222–224, 225, 480. Income of, criticism on, 379. Influence of, 480. Investigating Committee, accepts report of, 530. Lecture at, weekly, 229. Members in (1862), reception of, 392; exercised over Cleveland letter, 472; number of, in 1872, 480; troubles caused by, after Scandal, 537; duty of, as to Advisory Council, 539–542. Moulton, Mrs., dropped by, 534. Organ at, the new (1859), 382. Phillips, Wendell, at, 246. Polity of, 232. Prayer meetings at, weekly, 230; daily, 376, influence of, 377, prayers in, 378. Regiments, rendezvous for, 316. Revival at, in 1848, 222; in 1858, 375; in 1861–63, 391. Sheridan’s victory, joy over, 450. Silver Wedding of, 480; Children’s day, 481; Members’ and Historical days, 482; Communion day, 486; Storrs’s, Dr., speech at, 484–486. Slavery, its stand against, 221. Slaves ransomed in, 293–300. Sociable at, weekly, 231. Sunday-schools of, 480. Sunday services in, 228, 229. Tabernacle, building of, 223. Tilton, Theodore, dropped from rolls of, remonstrances against, 523.

“Plymouth Collection,” history of, 363–366; terms of publishing of, 364; a model for others, 365; H. W. Beecher on alleged omissions from, 368.

Porter, Pres. Noah, letter to H. W. Beecher on Conspiracy, 532.

Prayer, H. W. Beecher’s early love for, 97, 100; sample of, 228; on extemporaneous, 371; reply to request for copy of a, 656.

Presbyterian Church, division in, 151, 159, 165, one cause of, 160, one result of, 168; H. W. Beecher on, 163.

Prohibition party, H. W. Beecher on, 583.

Prospect Hill (Litchfield), 30.

Raymond, John, sails for England with H. W. Beecher, 396; speech of, in London, 401.

Rebellion, the, H. W. Beecher on, 310, 313, 314; sacrifices for, 316; on Union soldier’s duty in, 317, 318; on Southern unity and Northern uncertainty in, 330; on distinction between Union troops in, 443; on end of, 451, 455. Beginning of, 309. European sentiment regarding, 400. Federal army in, condition of, in 1863, 397. Federal disasters in, in 1862, 327.

Reconstruction, H. W. Beecher on, 458–461, sermon on, 463; feeling as to, in North, 464; Johnson’s, Pres., plan of, 458; problem of, 457.

Reeve, Judge Tapping, law-school of, at Litchfield, 34, 37.

Reeve, Mrs., death of Roxana Beecher, description of, 48.

Republican party, the, advantages of, over rivals, 289; H. W. Beecher’s early work for, 289, in 1860, 305, in 1864, 571, reasons for opposing in 1884, 581–583; campaign song of, 289; charge against, a, answered, 307; corruptions in, 574; formation and composition of, 288; issue of, in 1860, 304; Lincoln nominated by, 304; platform of, first, 288; South, exclusion of, minority against, 461, restoration of, by the party, 477.

Roebuck, John (England), favors South, why, 403.

Ruffin, Judge (N. C.), on legal status of slaves, 249.

Ruskin, John, influence of, on H. W. Beecher, 394.

Russell, Lord John, support by, of American Union, 431, 433.

Salisbury, Conn., H. W. Beecher at, 618.

Sawmill Pond (Litchfield), 31.

Sawyer, Martha, gives H. W. Beecher’s first call, 157.

Scandal—see _Conspiracy_.

Scotland, H. W. Beecher’s tribute to, 415; his speeches in, 415–422.

Secession, decree of, 305; H. W. Beecher on, 307.

Sermons of H. W. Beecher quoted: American Democracy, Success of (1862), 326; Background of Mystery, 567; Camp, The (1861), 319; Campaign of 1884, 584; Compromise, Against (1860), 306; Confidence in Union Success (1862), 333; Crisis, The (1861), 310; Death of the Soldier (1861), 315; Evolution and Religion, 567; Fast-day of Buchanan (1861), 307; Government, Divine (1862), 326; God in National Affairs (1861), 319; Harper’s Ferry Tragedy (1859), 301; Individual Responsibility, 219; Lincoln’s Assassination, 455; Modes and Duties of Emancipation (1861), 320; Our National Flag (1861), 317; Past Perils and Perils of To-day, 574; Phillips, Wendell (1884), 245; Revivals (1858), 375; first sermons in Plymouth, 218; Trial Sermon, 685.

Shearman, Thomas G., services of, in Conspiracy, 549.

Sheldon, Dr. (Litchfield), reminiscence of, 36.

“Shining Shore,” history of, 366; H. W. Beecher’s liking for, 379.

Silver-Grays, the, 288, 289.

Sixty-seventh N. Y. Regiment, equipment of, by Mr. Beecher, 317, 489.

Slavery, battle against, 233, 271; Beecher’s, H. W., debate on, at Amherst, 119, sermons on, in Indianapolis, 195, their effect, 196, 197, in Brooklyn, 219, 220; Christianity against, power of, 268; Church’s timidity as to, 221, 254; Compromise measures on, 233–239; Constitution, ballot, and Church as forces against, 267; doctrine of, 419; dominance of, in 1857, 281; eras of, five, 234; feeling towards, in Indiana, 196, in United States in 1854, 271; at Lane Seminary, 137; military question, a, 331; Mitchel’s, John, views on, 265; preaching against, threatened, 248, H. W. Beecher on, 248–252; religious societies, attitude of, 252; treatment of, H. W. Beecher on, 303, 331.

Slaves, eight freed by law in New York, 263; Beecher, H. W., on help of, 240, on pulpit work for, 248–252, on return of fugitive, 252, on proper treatment of, 303, 304; freedom purchased for, in Brooklyn, 292–300; hunting of, in 1851, 255; ignorance of, why necessary, 417; Kansas laws against, 278; status of, religious, 248, legal, 249.

Smith, Charles, influence of, on H. W. Beecher, 66, 69, 431.

South, the, advantage to, of Compromise Bill, 235, 238. Civil liberty in, suppression of, 413. Cruisers for, building stopped by queen, 410. English sympathy for, 399–401, 413. Grievance of, on slavery, 238, 272. Labor in, dishonorable (1863), 418. Northern merchants black-listed by, 247. Rebellion, unity of purpose in, 330; vehemence and courage in, 398; caused by political leaders of, 454. Slavery in, code of, 251; plan of, for spreading slavery, 429. States of, decree secession, 305; reconstruction of, problem as to, 457; effect of exclusion of, 459; Northern soldiers against exclusion of, 461; Northern fear from admission of, 466; H. W. Beecher’s mediation for, 612.

Speeches of H. W. Beecher quoted: at Charleston (1865), 451–454; Edinburgh (1863), 419–422; Glasgow (1863), 414–419; Liverpool (1863), 419–422; London (1863), 432–436; Manchester (1863), 410–414; North Victorious, The (1865), 458.

Spenser, Edmund, “Faerie Queene” quoted, 156.

Stanton, Edwin M., note to, from H. W. Beecher in 1864, and reply, 447; Charleston, proposes to send Mr. Beecher to, 448; Fort Sumter, fall of, order on anniversary of, 449; telegram of, as to Sheridan’s victory, 451.

Stockton, Col. T. B. W., sent to Lincoln by Mr. Beecher, 443.

Storrs, Dr. R. S., Advisory Council (1876), declines to attend, 544; Beecher, H. W., address on English speeches of, 437, letter to, on Cleveland letters, 471, 477, tribute to (1872), 484–486, letter of help to, 520, refuses reconciliation with, 561; hostility of, to H. W. Beecher, reasons for, 521; judgment as to Mr. Beecher, on ex-parte testimony, 522; Moulton, Mrs., assumes cause of, 560; Tilton’s influence on, 513.

Stowe, Calvin E., assistance of, to H. W. Beecher, 137.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, attainments of H. W. Beecher, remarks on, 70, on studies of, 74; Beecher, Harriet, reminiscence of, 54; childhood of, impressions of, 57; diligence of, early, 56; her mother’s death, recollections of, 48, 49; Parker controversy, part taken in, 259, 260; reminiscences of, 55; Roxana Beecher, tribute to, 24; tulip-bulbs, adventure with, 47.

Sturtevant, Dr., on H. W. Beecher, 551.

Sumner, Charles, attack on, by Preston Brooks, 286; meeting on, in New York, 287; H. W. Beecher on, 287, 288.

Sumter, Fort, anniversary of fall of, exercises at, 449–454; fall of, 309, excitement in North, 314.

Tallmadge, Col. (Litchfield), 35; reminiscence of, 36.

Tappan, Lewis, reminiscences by, of H. W. Beecher, 114, 117.

Temperance, H. W. Beecher’s early work in, 130, 138, 144, 147, in Lawrenceburg, 185, practice of, at Oxford, Eng., 345, to his daughter on, 384. habits as to, 652, 653; Lyman Beecher’s action on, 42.

Terre Haute, Ind., H. W. Beecher’s reminiscence of, 190–192.

Texas, effect on, of Compromise, 235.

Thayer, Hon. Eli, in Kansas struggle, 279.

Thirteenth Regiment, Brooklyn, H. W. Beecher as chaplain of, 660; Company G of, guard at his funeral, 678.

Thomas, Rev. John H., on H. W. Beecher’s Lawrenceburg pastorate, 176.

Tilton, Theodore, associations of, evil, 497. Beecher, H. W., early affection for, letter to, 489; esteems himself greater than, 490, 492; whispers stories against, 492; hostility to, first charge against, 493; demand on, to leave Brooklyn, 494, 503; treachery to, 496; urges him to use his house, 500; bitterest against, when in pecuniary difficulties, 510; secures $5,000 from, 519; blackmail of, attempted, 520; charge against, makes open, 527; civil suit against, 533. Blackmail, attempts at, 499, 520. Bowen, Henry C., denies tales of, 490; claim against, for $7,000, 496; charge against, 511, secures publication of, 515. Charge of, denied by Mrs. Tilton, 529; specific charge, 530; charge changed, 532. Church-membership, proposed deprivation of, 509. Counsel of, declares Mr. Beecher innocent, 534. _Eagle_, Brooklyn, infamous article in, 514. “Editorial Soliloquy” of, 491. Family of, H. W. Beecher’s intimacy with, 501. _Independent_, assistant editor of, 488; editor of, 490; resigns editorship, 492. Indicted by Grand Jury, 533. Investigating Committee, before the, 529. Lecturing, failure at, blames Mr. Beecher, 510. Moral conduct of, 506. _Observer_, work on, 488. Plymouth Church, dropped from rolls of, 523. Sketch of, 488. Stories of past life of, 493. Storrs, Dr. R. S., T. reads “True Statement” to, 521. Tripartite agreement, signs, 496; his changes in, object of, 497; part in, 512. “True Statement” of, results, 513. Views of, “advanced,” 491, 502; public protest against, 501. Wife, treatment of his, she asks advice of Mr. Beecher, 502; incriminating document extorted from, 504, Woodhull, Victoria, alliance with, 510; scandal version of Mrs. W., statement on, 513. _Union_, Brooklyn, editor of, 492.

Toombs, Senator Robert, threat of, concerning Fugitive Slave Bill, 236.

_Trent_ affair, the, 322; English papers on Mr. Beecher’s action in, 422.

Tripartite agreement, history of, 511, 512; publication of, 515, Tilton’s rage at, 515, 516.

Turner, Thomas J., superintendent at “Boscobel,” 624–626.

Tyng, Rev. Stephen H., on Mr. Beecher’s Cleveland letter, 469.

Union Sewing Committee, formation of, 247.

Unitarian movement in Massachusetts, 82, 83; Sabbath-school, ostracism of a, 355, 356.

United States, Administration of, in Kansas struggle, 277–280; pro-slavery, 291; inactivity of, in 1862, 324, H. W. Beecher on, 328, 329, on mismanagement by, in 1862, 329, on duty of, 330, 331; distrusts Mr. Beecher in 1863, 397, changes its opinion of him, 444. Commercial disaster in, in 1857, 371, 375. Compromise in 1854, feeling on, 265; schemes of, in 1860, 306. Condition of, in 1813, 41, 42. Congress of, and President Johnson, 458, 469, 470; constitutional amendment by, proposed, 473–475; suffrage to negroes, refuses, 474. Elections of 1884, condition after, 586. Federal army of, in 1863, 397. Free trade in, a future certainty, 429. Ireland, sympathy for, 265. Navy of, H. W. Beecher on, 399. Political condition of, in 1863, 398. Policy of, fifteen years, Southern, 420. Reaction in, for Compromise, in 1851, 255. Reconstruction in, problem of, 457. Repeal of Compromise, excitement over, 273. Senators of, pledged to Compromise, 257; plot for rebellion in 1856–60, 305. Slavery in, in 1854, feeling on, 271. States of, decree secession, 305.

Vicksburg, fall of, effect on H. W. Beecher, 405; effect of, in Great Britain, 406.

Ward, Andrew, sketch of, 22.

Ward, Col. Andrew, sketch of, 22.

Ward, Gen. Andrew, sketch of, 22, 23

Webster, Daniel, support by, of Compromise Bill, 236, 238.

Weld, Theodore, in early slavery movements, 138.

Wellman, Dr., on H. W. Beecher, 550.

Westminster Abbey, H. W. Beecher’s visit to, 669.

Whig party, defeat of, in 1852, 257; extinction of, in 1854, 273.

White Mountains, H. W. Beecher’s summer services in, 660.

Wilkeson, Mr., part of, in Conspiracy, 515.

Wolcott, Oliver, King George’s statue melted by, 34.

Wolcott, Gov. Oliver, Jr., reminiscence of, 35.

Woodhull, Victoria, blackmail of H. W. Beecher, attempted, 513; letters in possession of, Mr. Beecher on, 522; scandal, version of, published, 510, 513, 520.

Transcriber’s Note

At the foot of p. 173, an unreferenced footnote appears, referring the reader to “Appendix A.” for the text of Rev. Beecher’s inaugural sermon. (The Appendix has no “A”, per se.) A reference to the footnote has been added.

On pp. 265, 276, 351, 362, 382 an asterisk appears right-justified at the end of a quoted passage. As explained on p. 366, this was used by Beecher as a signature. These are retained here, though merely with an extended space between the text and his ‘signature’.

The index entry for Beecher's remarks about the proposed compromise of 1864, refers to p. 445, should have been p. 446, Likewise, references to music and hymns on p. 367 should have been 368. Both were likely caused by the interpolation of a numbered full page illustration, and have both been corrected.

The format of the two-column index has been changed to single column, and the punctuation regularized.

Hyphenation of compound words is retained as printed. Where the hyphen appears on a line or page break, it is retained or removed depending on the preponderance of usage elsewhere.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.

20.18 [‘/“]It has always been a shadow Replaced.

75.36 Now decline he.[’] Added.

84.13 the first electric shock of wonder and Removed. pleasure.[”]

96.27 to improve the opportu[tu]nity and administer Removed.

101.1 He shall be called a Nazarene.[”/’] Replaced.

162.22 and declared the body _dissolved_[./,] Replaced.

190.8 by no means confined to Indianapolis[.] Added.

263.8 for my God is greater than their devil[.] Added.

305.36 in spite of the popular vote[.] Added.

333.39 but we are a-going to succeed in America.[’] Removed.

372.19 was the eldest son of his father’s family[.] Added.

561.4 from time to time during the two[ two] years Removed. past

649.15 It has been in the house this two months.[”/’] Replaced.