Emphasis Preaching Journal

Horace Greeley was the newspaper editor famous for saying, "Go west, young man." He was also famous for his friendship with the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. Once, the two were on their way to lunch together when a child approached Greeley. The child might have heard that Greeley was always a soft touch for anyone asking for a handout or a loan. The child was begging. It might have been a bad day for the editor because he scowled at the boy and snapped, "Don't you know it's shameful to beg?" But he said it as he roughly shoved a bill into the boy's hand.