Providence Morning Star

Henry Ward Beecher occasionally "hits the nail on the head." In his talk at the lecture of Friday evening last, he paid his respects to the spiritual "bummers," those who make a business of wandering around from church to church for the purpose of airing their vanity at prayer meetings. He said: I know them: they are spiritual bummers who go around from meeting to meeting, stringing together texts and religious cant, as though making a tail for a scriptural kite. They are always ready with rattling speeches, prepared beforehand, and the people prick up their ears and say, "Good heavens, who have we got here?" Oh, I know them, and estimate them at their value. Is not that speech adapted to the latitude of Providence?