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year from the time of his departure, he had again resumed his pulpit and 

 pastoral labors. In 1863 his pastoral coanection with the Pearl Street Church 

 was dissolved. Dr. Beadle, though eminently a man of peace, and in dispo- 

 sition gentle as a woman, had nevertheless an imperial will, which made 

 him ever loyal to convictions of duty. To these he was true as steel. All 

 know that the fiery feelings engendered by the breaking out of the war 

 between the two great sections of the country often carried men away 

 from the stable moorings of reason, and provoked words and acts, which, 

 in cooler moments of reflection, were deeply regretted. Some Christian 

 people believed that the pulpit was the proper place to discuss the vexed 

 questions involved in this fratricidal strife. Dr. Beadle, and there was 

 none more loyal, regarded the introduction of these themes in such a place 

 as a prostitution of the sacred oflSce, and rather than surrender to the 

 fanaticism of the hour, asked in the interest of peace, that the relations be- 

 tween himself and the people of the Pearl Street Church be dissolved, and 

 in accordance with this wish, the ties which had for so many years bound 

 pastor and people together in the bonds of Christian fellowship were sun- 

 dered. 



In 1863 he again sailed for the East, and in company with Dr. William M. 

 Thompson, the well-known author of the " Land and the Book," he visi- 

 ted Egypt and Mount Sinai, the object of the visit being to identify the 

 path of the children of Israel in their exodus to the promised land. 



It was after his return from Egypt that my personal acquaintance with 

 Dr. Beadle commenced. It was in the Tenth Presbyterian Church of this 

 city where I first had the pleasure of hearing him preach. I remember 

 well he entered the church and took the back seat on the side aisle, and 

 when the hour for service arrived, he arose, walked with a rapid, nervous 

 step down the same aisle, and ascended to the pulpit. The members of 

 the Second Church will remember that he rarely passed down the central 

 aisle. There was something about the man which immediately awakened 

 my interest. The sharply cut features, the deep lines which furrowed a 

 thoughtful face, and the quick, nervous movements all revealed the fire 

 which flamed beneath the surfoce. Nor was this interest at all lessened 

 after the speaker rose to proceed with the services of the day. The voice 

 and manner, the form and force of expression, the elegance of diction, all 

 conspired to make one magnificent harmony, and you could not fail to 

 feel that in the delicate wiry body of the speaker, God had enshrined a 

 soul full of all manner of beatitudes. 



During the temporary absence of Dr. Boardman and of Dr. Crowl, the 

 congregation of these pastors worshiped together, and Dr. Beadle supplied 

 their pulpits. Notwithstanding the heat of midsummer, and consequently 

 the depopulated state of the city, he soon attracted large congregations 

 composed of highly educated and appreciative hearers. 



The following year, 1864, Dr. Beadle spent in Rochester, supplying for 

 a time a vacant pulpit in that city, but the rigor of the climate in that part of 

 the State of New York, soon compelled him to seek a more congenial spot. 



