HENRY WARD BEECHER.
ALondoiipapemys-.—"According to ■ a leading New York paper, the/congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn; are about to dispense with the services of v Henry Ward Bceclier. .In this-gifted . preacher and orator they liavo discovered. 'some grave' mental and moral detects..-...-Ho is becoming - exceedingly . eccentric, grows " queerer''-as he (jets olderj and his' flock "are in constant apprehension, of; new and dangerous freaks on his part.". Wheneverh,o.doea drop 011 .anew;freak • "he bbatiriatetiy sticks to it. > Hip chief defect seems to lie in his ''mugwumrism,'' and in a certain " crustacean .course 1 - ; which he has'pursued. He is also, like Dick Swiveller, always financially behind, v and his capacity for getting into debt increases with his years and the amount : of his-income. The congregation, howfc ever, are to be merciful to Mr Beecher, \ who. is now approaching his seventy second;birthday, and havin? regard to the - old man's feelings, are not to dismiss him ' abruptly, but, in the. phraseology of the New York journalist, to " eliminate him by degrees." 1 ' '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2157, 28 November 1885, Page 2
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166HENRY WARD BEECHER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2157, 28 November 1885, Page 2
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