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FEN PICTUBK OP THE NOTED
BROOKLYN PREACHER
flow He “Think* Out” His Sermons
S -TheWorld Fora Congrega
tion—Sunday Morning
in His Church.
Foster Coates in “A Day with Tal
mage,” an article - contributed to the
Boston lb mid , says:
After his midday meal Dr. Talmage
spends an hour in pleasant conversation
with the ladies of his family, and then
he goes to his study, and with his secre
tary, begins the work of getting up his
sermons, lectures and Friday night talks.
Few men who have stood in the fierce
light of public life for 20 years have said
so much and said it so well as Talmage.
He aims to hit on some topic that is
prominently before the public, and out
of this draws a lesson that his hearers
will not forget. Do not imagine that
sermon writing is easj r . On the con
trary, it is very difficult. Dr. Talmage
has no trouble, apparently, in preparing
a sermon, for he d!cta‘es at the rate of
150 words a minute to his scc:ctary, but
before he can do this he has to “think
out” his sermons.
lie first begins by having sometlrng
to say, and then saying it. He delights
in selecting o;kl texts and using short,
sharp, snappy sentences, llut these very
sentences have c'mc to him with diffi
culty. lie has learned them by heart
while tiding on ears, while walking in
the streets, and even while lying in his
bed at night. lie has a wonderful mem
ory, and apt illustrations arc at his
tongue’s end. He has been a close
student of history, and he is never at a
loss for names and dates.
And so it conies that when he is ready to
begin to dictate to his secretary his ser
mon is practically finished. It is memor
ized. lie knows it by heart, After it is
written he reads it once or twice care
fully, ai:d he can then repeat it word for
word.
And now I shall tell you something
that will surprise you. sou have known
for a long time that Dr. Talmage is popu
lar. Everybody knows that. His church
is one of the largest in the country, if
not in the world. The Brooklyn Taber
nacle can seat, on its main floor and in
the galleries over 4,000 persons. Camp
stools are always placed in the aisles and
in the corridors. Thus 500 more persons
can be accommodated, and by a series of
annexes to the church 1,600 more can be
given seats or standing room. These
annexes have been built recently. They
surround the church, and when the ser
mon begins the partitions separating the
church from the annexes are hoisted up
by pulleys, so that the preacher can be
seen and his voice plainly heard.
The immediate congregation at each
service consists of about 0,000 persons,
and, as a rule, fully half that number
more are turned away because they can
not find even standing room. A big
congregation, you say?- Yes, indeed;
but nothing like so vast a congregation
as the Brooklyn preacher addresses every
Monday morning of his life through the
newspapers.
His Sunday morning sermon, or a por
tion of it, is published in some news
paper in nearly every city in this coun
try. In a score of cities the sermon is
published by some newspapers in its en
tirety.
From a source that admits of no dis
pute I am enabled to state positively that
the newspapers in America alone that
publish these sermons every week have a
circulation of 18,000,000.
Think of that for an audience!
In continental Europe, in Australia, in
Sweden, Russia, Norway, Denmark and
India 1,000,000 more copies are published
on each Monday morning. Dr. Talir.age’s
sermons have also been translated and
fmblishcd in book form in at least 40
auguages.
Nearly I s , 000,000 copies of one ser
mon published every vveek in the year!
Let us stop a moment until we exactl\ r
understand the surprising greatness of
these figures. It is generally reckoned
that an average of three persons read each
copy of the daily ncwspapenApublished.
That would make Tal mage’s weekly
audie cc 54,000,000 persons, or nearly as
many as arc contained in the L nited
States. Of course, he has no such audi
ence as that. Let us be on the safe side
and divide the 18,000,000 iuto .*,000,000.
The first object that strikes the visitor
to the Brooklyn Tabernacle is the im-
MoacnsC organ. Promptly at 7:15 o’clock
the organist runs hLraßHHpcr the
ivory keys, and plays selec
tions. At the exact moment of 7:30,
Dr. Talmage walks on the platform.
His black broadcloth frock coat is thrown
open. A turned down collar encircles
his neck, and a black tie covers his
snowy shirt front. He dro; s into a blue
plush chair, and a moment is spent in
prayer. Then he adjusts his glasses to
his eyes and opens his ‘Bible. The organ
pea s forth, “Praise Cod from Whom All
Blessings Flow.” A stout well-built man
steps on a small platform and waves his
right hand. In his left he holds a silver
cornet. This he puts to his mouth and
leads the vast audience in song. There
is no ohoir or quartet in the Tabernacle.
The singing is entirely by the congrega
tion.
Then the sermon begins. The preacher
comes down to the front of the platform
without notes or even a book in n s hand.
He doesn’t use a table or a pulpit. He
stands alone. Every eye is on him. He
gives out his text in a clear, loud, ring
ing voice, and repeats it twice, lie usu
ally begins the sermon by a hasty word
picture of the scene where the text is
laid, or by an anecdote. The sermon
lasts 40 minutes. It is full of vigor and
earnestness. Indeed, that is the chief
characteristic of Talmage on the plat
form. He is in earnest. He talks quickly,
nervously. He paces up and down the
platform, and now tells a story in a low,
sweet voice, and again he belches forth
like Vesuvius, and makes the chandeliers
rattle with the sound of his voice. At
times he is intensely humorous. Again,
he has the audience in tears. Again, he
is so dramatic that the conviction forces
itself upon you that if he had taken to
the stage instead of the pulpit he would
have made a great actor.
The vast audience never loses interest.
It is an audience made up fully two
thirds of men between the ages of 25 and
i!5. They belong to all walks in life.
Some are students, others are actors and
playwrights, young ministers, bankers,
brokers, lawyers and storekeepers. They
laugh at the anecdotes, and they cry and
they listen reverently, tenderly, to the
manly pleading to con e to Jesus.
The preacher knows every lute-stringin
the human heart. He draws magnificent
pictures in words, but he never forgets
to send home solid tiuths. It is like a
panorama. The curtain is rising and fall
ing on resplendent pictures. They daz
zle the listeners. The eye is soothed and
the ear charmed.
Colds and Nerves.
A timid woman comes home one night
pale and ghastly with fright, having en
countered a spectre clad in white, which
she calls a “ghost.” In a day or two
she develops a cold, for which she can
not in any way account. Fear acts as a
depressant to the nervous system, crip
pling its powers of resisting the action
of cold, hence the phrase: “shivering
with fear.” Similarly, inumerable events
of daily life tend to irritate, depress, or
excite the nerves, and render them unfit
for maintaining the body temperature
against the fluctuations of weather and
climate. During these unguarded mo
ments a trifling exposure to cold or damp
is sufficient to induce cartarrh. It is
desirable, therefore, that it should be
generally known that stout boots, um
brellas, and wraps, though excellent
preservatives in their way, are not by
any means the only precautionary
measures to be adopted; that we must
endeavor to strengthen the nervous
system if it be defective; and that,when
we are compelled to expose ouivelves to
cold or wet when the nerves are de
pressed from temporary causes, such as
fatigue, anxiety, grief, worry, fear, dys
pepsia, or ill-humor, we should be spe
cially careful to guard against cold.—
Chanibert's Journal.
Squirrels Drive Off Turkeys.
The other day two turkeys belonging
to a poultry raiser in the suburbs of Mis
souri City, flow up in a tree. Shortly
afterward a fox squirrel came out of a
hole above and appeared to be greatly
discomfited by the presence of the fowls.
Not being ab:c to drive them from their
perch, the little animal ran back to its
dec, returning with a companion. Both
adopted the tactics and maneuvers of
the first until at last the turkeys showed
signs as of annoyance and bother by
ruffling their feathers and turning red in
the gills. Finally the capers of the
squirrels became too much for the tur
key?, when they spread their wings and
sailed away, much to the satisfaction of
the squirrels, as they jumped around in
frolicsome glee.— Gobc-D mocrat.
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