Mr. H. Ward Beecher made another long and final speech
this day week at Manchester. His speaking is not to our mind, but, on the whole, with a few violent, and a few vulgar, and a few foolish things, he has said in an apt and vigorous way many sagacious, and some wise ones, and reached a class which a more cultivated speaker would not have attracted. He told his admirers, at Radley's Hotel, for instance, that if the negro was really the link between the man and the monkey, the sooner they went and preached to the monkeys the better, which was a vivid way of saying that religious truth is the ap- pointed means of raising man from the lowest to the highest level, and a much more graphic and rememberable way of saying it than ours. We do not know that we could join with him in say- ing that God cured his sore throat on purpose that he might speak at Exeter Hall ; but if he believed this himself, perhaps, he did not speak the worse for his rather narrow creed. He has done good, on the whole, by his tour, though he has not satisfied fastidious tastes.
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