Wickedness in High Places
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Wickedness in High Places: A Review of the Beecher Case The first edition of this Review was written and published under the clearest and strongest conviction of duty - to myself, the ministry, to the Church, and to the cause of Christian virtue. It was a duty that I would gladly have escaped. I commenced the investigation with the confident hope of finding Mr. Beecher guiltless. Had such been the result of my examination, the verdict of acquittal would have been a pleasant one, and the task of upholding it by proof most thoroughly congenial. As the result was different, and step by step I had reached an unwavering conviction of his guilt, I hesitated to declare it. Most earnestly I prayed that, if possible, the cup might pass from me. But, more and more, the conviction was "borne in upon me," that fidelity to the Master demanded that the verdict be rendered according to the facts. Had there been a shadow of doubt I should never have written a line. Thousands of copies of this Review having been called for since the first edition was exhausted - called for from every State from Maine to Nebraska - it is now issued in enlarged form, and with the correction of one or two unimportant errors that were found in the first copies. I have read still again - now for the fifth time - Mr. Beecher´s Statement, and every reading confirms the opinion which will be found plainly expressed in the body of the Review. More than a hundred letters have come to me from all parts of the country, thanking me for what I had done, and assuring me of the fact that candid and intelligent men who have examined the case, are fast coming to agree in the conclusions which are here set forth. Not a few of these are from persons of national reputation in Church and State. And with all the attacks that have been made upon this Review and its author, public and private, not one point at all essential to the argument has been once assailed. More than nine-tenths of it remain untouched with even the point of any man´s pen. Without exception, the criticisms made upon it, so far as I have seen, have been either entirely frivolous or wholly personal, with one exception, and that pertained to the time at which Mr. Beecher´s "ill-advised counsel" was said to have been given to Mrs. Tilton. That point I have now fortified by the proofs, which in the first edition I did not take time to present. Of the motives which prompted this publication I need not here speak. The reader will find them sufficiently set forth in the pages which are before him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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