A SARCASTIC LETTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 5 June 1883, Page 2

A SARCASTIC LETTER.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, invited by the Traveller to express his views of Briticisms of various ministers in New England upon his recent withdrawal from the Congregational body, writes tho following letter : I thank jm for <V letter mi papers, I have read somewliat largely the expressions of these many excellent men in regard to my orthodoxy, consistency, influence, and general merit without wishing for a moment to reply, as you kindly request mo. When a' dead man is lying on the dissecting table under the hands of experts it would be unbecoming for him to rise up suddenly and discuss with his surgeons the propriety of t< and the truth, of the is not often one can sec him, anc} spes hifjj, and more'than. a]j as Boston clergymen see him. | am. ; reduced to pulp, but thank heaven not,to ashes, when you suggest ft reply, to these I m sure you can have no,, conception pf the aubdued pd enlightened state pf my mind, I am bent on improvement, laying aside all my old notions of my beliefs and of my standing, I am putting together the real man that I now am taught that 1 am. When I get my new personal identity together and in working shafe 1 intend to study theology somewhere, though in my present confusion 1 cannot yet see whether I shall study at' Andover or Boston. New Haven is nearer, but Dr, Smyth has been settled there, and I fear laxity of doctrine in his neighborhood. Princeton: is not'far to the°soutu of'me, bu) 'jj'r' j£f(jpjfl'js'i Christian evolutionist, 'and it would bp folly, after what I have suffered, to come under the malarial influence of that philosophy.. On the whole! incline/to study 1 at Park street; but whereverl'raayA I am determined, before-'Me, to fmjl a theology which wiirpaaajrnuste£ at Bangor, Andover, Cambridger^w.' Haven, Princeton, Alleghany, Oberlih, Chicago,. and at Park street, The'n I shall willingly die. v ;'■.,./