Excerpt from Henry Ward Beecher: A Study of His Personality, Career, and Influence in Public AffairsHis public utterances were all the outgrowth of the one grand theme of his thought and faith: of God and tile wort/z of man as God's child - not only the core but the very sum and substance of his teaching, from beginning to end. Whatever the special topic, that underlying principle was sure to be found at the bottom.However variant the visible pattern - and surely few minds since Shakespeare's have laid hold on such a wondrous number and diversity of matters for treatment - the warp and backing was that maxim of his life. Whether upon his own platform in Plymouth pulpit, or lecturing on art or literature or economics, making an after-dinner Speech, or writing a novel or a tri¿ing paper or a letter of travel, thundering through times of war and commotion, or dis cussing policies and parties in the piping times of peace, - his work was all surrounded and permeated with an atmosphere of the brooding love of God and the duty of qman to man.An amusing instance of this characteristic is related.* At the lecture he delivered in Dublin, on The Wastes and Burdens of Society, where the local magnates, although desirous of hearing the celebrated American orator, were in great trepidation lest he should say something about religion to the distaste of Irish Catholics, or about British politics, to the disturbance of civil order and governmental discipline in that turbulent town, the chairman introduced him as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.