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The report was handed up to the Examining Committee of Plymouth Church, which, upon receiving it, underlined its findings by declaring that Beecher had been the sufferer of "the most notorious conspiracy identified to the present age." At a meeting of the whole congregation, certainly one of its main members, Professor Rossiter W. Raymond, who was an expert elocutionist, learn a abstract of the report, to the accompaniment of wild applause. "The one that dedicated these horrible crimes against these three young ladies will not have to bear the shame at being referred to as a lifetime registered intercourse offender, as he was initially sentenced," stated Smith. Stark segregation by occupation can result in a sexual division of labor, influencing the access and management women and men have over inputs and outputs required for labor. It declared that he was the victim of Tilton’s "malicious and revengeful designs," referred to as Mrs. Tilton’s conduct "indefensible," as a result of she had displayed "undue affection," found Beecher innocent of any "unchaste or improper act," and stated that there was "nothing whatever in the proof that should impair the proper confidence of Plymouth Church or of the world within the Christian character and integrity of Henry Ward Beecher." The pastor was censured in the report just for having allowed his abounding generosity and love to blind him and lead him to drop his guard with the Tiltons. |
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