The late H.W. Beecher.

Evening Star, Issue 7259, 9 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The late H.W. Beecher.

On his last Sunday evening in this place,'' , two weeks ago, after the congregation" bad « ! retired from it, the organist and one or two.* ;" others were practising the hymn— ■''''■" " I heard the voice of Jesus 8»y, . :•".-' Come unto Me and rest" : .* Mr Beecher, doubtless with that tire ,, follows a pastor's Sunday work, remained and listened. Two street urchins were : prompted to wander into the building, and , ( . - one of them was standing, perhaps in. the-r. position of the boy whom Raphael has j-.t immortalised, gazing up at the organ. , Tbs ~.i,a old man, laying his hands on the boy's head, ■"-.■, turned his face upward and kissedhim, and,. with his arms about the two, left the wane • 1 of his triumphs, his trials, and his successes, • for ever. It was a fitting close to a grand » life: the old man of genius and fame shielding the little wanderers, great in breasting traditional ways and prejudices, great also :-.t in the gesture, so like bim, that recognised, .; s as did the Master, that the humblest and , ~-, the poorest were his brethren, the great >. preacher led out into the night. by the Bttie nameless waifs.—«Hy. Ward Beecher,' by DrCh.B.flall. : -,;