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TALMAGE.
PEN PICTURE OP THE NOTED
BROOKLYN PREACHER
How He “Thinks Out” His Sermons
—The World Fora Congrega¬
tion—Sunday Morning
in His Church.
Foster Coates," in “A Day with Tal¬
mage,'’ an article contributed to the
Boston Herald , 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 and that is
prominently before the public, out
of this draws a lesson that his hearers
will not forget. is Do not imagine the that
sermon writing easy. On con¬
trary, it is very difficult. Dr. Talmage
has no trouble, apparently, in preparing
a sermon, for he dicta'es at the rate of
150 words a minute to his secretary, but
before he can do this he has to “think
out” his sermons.
He first begins by having something
to say, and then saying it. He delights
in selecting odd texts and using short,
sharp, snappy sentences. But these diffi¬ very
sentences have c' me to him with
culty. He has learned them by heart
while the riding on cars, while walking in
streets, and even while lying in his
bed at night. He ha; a wonderful mem¬
ory, and apt illustrations are at his
tongue’s of end. He has been a close
student history, and he is never at a
loss for names and dates.
And so it comes that when he is ready to
begin to practically dictate to his secretary his scr
mon is finished. It is memor
ized. lie knows it by heart. After it is
written he reads it once or twice care
fully, and ha can then repeat it word for
word.
And now I shall tell you something
that will surprise you. \ on have known
for a Everybody long time that Dr. Talmage is popn
lar. knows that. His church
is one of the largest in ihe country, if
not in the wo: Id. The Brooklyn Taber
naclc 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 1,500 more can be
given seats have or standing room. These
annexes been built recently. They
surround the church, and when the ser
mou church begins the partitions separating the
lrom the annexes are ..hoisted up
by pulleys, so that the preacher can be
seen and his voice plainly heard.
service of congregation about at each
consists 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, but you say? Acs, indeed;
the nothing like so vast a congregation
as Brooklyn preacher addresses every
Monday morning of his life through the
newspapers.
tion _ His Sunday is morning published sermon, or a por
of it, 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
thc newspapers in America alone that
publish circulation these of sermons every week have a
13,000,000.
Think of that for an audience!
In continental Europe, in Australia, in
Sweden, liussia, Norway, Denmark and
India 4,030,000 more copies are published
on each Monday morning. Dr. Taimage’s
sermons have also been translated and
published languages. in book form in at least 40
Nearly 1-, 000,000 copies of one ser
mon published every week until in the year!
Let us stop a moment we exactly
understand the surprising greatness of
these figures. It is generally reckoned
that an average of three persons read each
copy of the daily newspapers publishod.
That would make Taimage’s weekly
audio ice 54,000,000 persons, or nearly as
many as arc contained in the United
States. Of course, he has no such audi
ence as that. Lot us be cn the safe side
and divide the IS,‘000,000 in to 0,000,090.
The first object that strikes the visitor
to the Brooklyn Tabernacle is the im
mense organ. Promptly at 7:15 o’clock
the organist runs his fingers over the
ivory keys, and plays two or three 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 drops into a blue
plush chair, and a moment hs spent in
prayer. Then he adjusts his glasses to
his eyes and opens his 'Bible. The organ
pea s forth, “Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Plow.” 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 choir 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 h.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 word usu¬
ally begins the sermon by a hasty
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 Ta’mage 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 forth low,
sweet voice, and again he belches
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
85. 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 pleading reverently, tenderly, to the
manly to come 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. Tire eye is soothed and
tlye ear charmed,
Colds „ , , and ... Nervcs -
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 notin develops a cold, for which she can
any way account. Fear acts as a
depressant its to the nervous system, crip
pling 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 ourselves to
cold or wet when the nerves are de
pressed from temporary causes, such as
fatigue, anxiety, ill-humor, grief, worry, should fear, dvs
pepsin, careful or we cold.— be spe
daily to guard against
Chambers's Journal.
Squirrels Drive Off Turkeys.
The other day two turkeys belonging
to a poultry raiser in the suburbs of Mis
souri City, flew up in a tree. Shortly
afterward a fox squirrel came out of a
hole above and appeared to be greatly
discomfited by thep resence of the fowls.
Mot being able to drive them from their
den, perch, returning the little with animal companion. ran back to Both its
a
adopted the tactics and maneuvers of
the first until at last the turkeys showed
signs as of annoyance and bother by
ruffling their leathers and turning red in
the gills. Finally the capers of the
squirrels became too much fox the tur
keys, when they spread their wings and
sailed away, much to the sat'sfaetion of
the squirrels, as they jumped around iti
frolicsome glee.— Globe-Democrat.
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NERVOUS PAINS.
Torture.— For instance: Sciatica, which so
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to the sciatic
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