If it parleyed with iniquity, if it passed its victims by on the other side, if it did not war incessantly and energetically to put down sin, to destroy wickedness, it was of the earth, earthy, and its expounders were dumb dogs where they should bark the loudest and bite the hardest; and Dr.Beecher appeared to him one of these dumb dogs, who, when he opened his mouth at all, was almost sure to open it at the men who were trying through evil report and good to express in their lives the spirit of Him who so loved the world that He gave His Son to die to redeem it.

He bayed loud enough at the Abolitionists but not at the abomination which they were attacking.

He was content to leave it to the tender mercies of two hundred years.

No such liberal disposition of the question of the Sabbath was he willing to allow.

He waxed eloquent in its behalf.