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TALMAGE.” m TANARUS„ m 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. gjhcms oil * A# & S C 1 A T FcA . Misery.— lt is instructive to note from the catalogue of diseases that nine-tenths of fatal cases reach their chronic stage through a stupid indifference fo a correct treatment when the system Is first assailed. It is easily shown that thousands of lives could be saved. NERVOUS PAINS. Torture.— For instance: Sciatica, which so sorely afllicts the human family, and which is defined to be neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, rheumatism of the hip-joint, or parts adjoining it, hip gout, pains in the loins and hips, even in its mildest form never seizes its prey without due warning. SYMPTOMS. Acute.— Sudden and acute pains in the hip and loins; redness, swelling, tenderness, soreness, fever, lameness and sometimes ex cruciating pains. The disease rapidly devel ops into chronic or inflammatory stage. TREATMENT. . ure.— Rub the parts affected thoroughly and vigorously with St. Jacobs Oil; create a burning sensation by the friction of rubbing on the Oil; apply warmth; flannels wrung out in hot water. Sold by Druggist* and Dealer* Everywhere. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Md. ■ H B|K ■ 1,, fl m■ ■ ■ ■ I W ki | mm Km M 1 Bitters _ IT ISAPURELY VESETABLE PREPARATION! 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