HENRY WARD BEECHER'S LAST.
New.Yobk, December 17—Morning.r-. Henry Ward Beecher preached a sermon yesterday which will create a sensation among the orthodox people. " The doctrine," he said, " that God has been for thousands of years peopling this earth with human beings, during throofourths of which it was not illuminated by an altar or church, and in places where a vast population of these people are yet without that light, is to transform the Almighty to a monster more hideous than Satan himself. I swear by all that is sacred that I will never worship Satan, though he should appear dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne of Jehovah. Men may say, " Tou will not go "to heaven ?" A heaven presided over by such a demon as that who has been peopling this world with millions of human beings and then sweeping them off into hell, not like dead flies, but without taking the trouble even (o kill them, and gloating and laughing over their eternal misery, is not such a heaven as I want to go to. The doctrine is too horrible. I cannot believe it, and I won't.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2803, 7 February 1878, Page 3
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191HENRY WARD BEECHER'S LAST. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2803, 7 February 1878, Page 3
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