The Advent Herald says, “In view of Mr. Beecher’s ability and the influence he exerts, we regret the laxity of his teachings respecting the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and destiny of mankind. The avidity with which Universalists and Spiritualists seize on his utterances ought to make him more careful of what he says, unless he wants to be reckoned as identified with them. Take the following from The Present Age, a Spiritualist paper published in Chicago, as a sample of the manner in which such errorists rejoice over what he teaches:” “How coolly and refreshingly Beecher walks into the old creedal systems of faith from time to time, at one fell swoop demolishing some fundamental principles thereof. Precious little of the great orthodox scheme of salvation finds lodgment in the great brain or greater heart of this live preacher of a living gospel. We frequently hear it said: ‘What a pity it is that Beecher does not come out entirely from his church, and work as a Spiritualist or a free religionist.’ But not so. He is wielding a far mightier influence where he is. Standing inside the limits of a sect, a Spiritualist at heart, a Free-religionist in his speech, he is uttering the grandest truths just sufficiently draped in good old-fashioned orthodox phraseology to make them acceptable to thousands who would never listen to the speech of the radical, the come-outer. “Beecher is a magnificent Avant Courier of Spiritualism—a John the Baptist preparing the way for a power mightier than he. It is a very easy thing to make Spiritualists of Beecherites, and they make admirable Spiritualists too. Very many years ago, Beecher declared that scores of his best church members were Spiritualists. If scores then, doubtless he would find those scores doubled now; and so the truth goes marching on, and we should be ever ready to recognize those who are at work for us, even though they stand in orthodox or so-styled evangelical pulpits, for every brave, noble word that is uttered from a Baptist, or Methodist, or Congregationalist pulpit, that is in advance of the creedal belief of the denomination to which the utterer thereof belongs, is a word spoken for us, and we should not underestimate the influences that are at work in all directions, aiding the triumphs of the very truths that are dear to the heart of the true Spiritualist, who should be a true reformer in the broadest sense of the term. And one of our noblest co-workers is Henry Ward Beecher, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York.”