Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
TALMAGE's DEFENSE.

TALdAGE's DEFENSE.
The Brooklyn. Preacher Delights HIS Hear
ea's With 0aa 4,stobiOgra1,I.icaL Sermon.
New York Special, Jan. IL.
1t was Mr.. Talmage's avowed intention
today to reply to some of the recent crit
cisms that have been made upon his minis
try. Nothing further was needed to fill the
Tabernacle. The text was in the gospel of
St. Mark, and read briefly: ''To every man
his work" "You may know" said Mr.. Tai
mage. 'sthat this is sort of double ami
versary. 1t is just ten years since I began
also, last Wednesday, AZ years old. You will
an photographed nature. I started life
always said morning and evening. But six
of us are in heaven. started for
THE LEGAL PROFESSION,
with an admiration that has never cooled.
To this day cannot walk by court house,
or listen to plea to jury without feeling
my blood stir with enthusiasm. But God
converted my soul and put me into the min
istry. And what work it is !! thank God
every day for associating me with this ele-
waited, cultivated, noble band, the Christian
ministers of America. I know personally
about five thousand of them, and that they
are as near perfect as it is possible for hu
man nature to be. I am proud to be in the
list, even if I am at the foot of it, Mr..
Talmage paused, and the audience applaud
ed. Il will not deny,'' he continued, s'that
| it has always been my ambition since en-
tered the ministry to apply religion six
thousand years old to the present day.
want always to preach the Edenic religion
that bruises the serpent's head. never can
see
THAT OLD SERPENT
without throwing something at him. I hate
him. have been tramping on him in the
course of sermons recently preached, and
every time have trod he has Kissed. But
up to this time I have used only one foot.
I'm going to begin now to use two. God
helping me. declare war of twenty five
years with sin and the devil. Between here
and my bed in Greenwood there shall not
be an inch of retreat or of compromise.
When / am dead ask not for marble slab,
for church draped in mourning, OF funer-
| al Grafton. A plain box will be enough, so
| only that the elders will stand here on this
platform and say
sHE NEVER COMPROMISED.
| Then let Brother Pearson, if he is living
(Mr. Talmage was now speaking in d voice
husky with emotion,) pronounce the benedic-
ton and let the people 60 home" 1t took
| time for both the congregation and their
pastor to recover from the emotion these
| words had awakened, and there was bright
autter of cambria handkerchiefs in all parts
of the house. He continued, at length; 81
do not deny that my course has been criti-
cised by my brethren of the ministry. At
many installations of young ministers this
church and am pointed to as
TERRIBLE EXAMPLES.
am told that often when clergymen over
the river desire to arouse their sleepy congre-
cations, most efectual method is found in
pointing thumb over to this direction, with
word of abuse for Talmage. The three
complimentary terms that are most com
monty applied are, believe, mountebank,
sensationalisism, and butfoonery. think
you will not deny that I have this advantage
over my clerical brethren-I never assault
them. The dear souls, wish them all good
fortune and prosperity. I wish every one of
them large audience, $4,000 salary,
HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN,
and heaven to boot. I am too busy in fight
| ing the devil to stop and assault any of the
soldiers on my side. I might, perhaps,
answer some of these ministers with the
same acrimony that they have shown toward
me. But would that advance Christianity ?
I suppose that in war of words might be
| their equal, for nobody has ever accused me
of any lack of vocabulary, but could it ad-
| vance the cause of Christ? Another and bet
ter way is to give them
SOME KINDLY ADVICE.
So, my clerical critics, let me advise you that
you never build yourself up by trying to
pull anybody down. Applause.] You fail
in two ways. You don't build yourself up,
and you don't pull him down. We have
very large audiences here each Sabbath, and
these people know that I never give any but
good advice. My dear, critical brethren of
the pulpit, why assault all these people as
you do when you assault me? Every man
to his work. You are metaphysical and can
drive people into heaven by raising great
fog here on earth. Very we'll, do it. You
are anecdotal and can chain souls with your
beautiful stories. Go ahead. You are best
fitted for pastoral visiting. Very well, go
on. The Lord be with you when you go to
TAKE TEA WITH THE OLD LADIES.
Hold the children on your lap, and tell them
how much they look like their parents. Stay
all the evening, and, if it IS raining, stay all
night. Every man to his work. God pros
per you, my friends, and put blessing in
your hat, and blessing around you, and a
blessing under you and over you till you
mount into heaven, when appoint meet
ing with you on the right side of the river to
talk over our ministries on earth.'' Mr.. Tai
mage here paused for breath, and then added
in milder tone: 'During these ten years
of my ministry here have received much of
misrepresentation.
have been told about me-lies, lies, lies. I
once came to New York from Philadelphia
to marry a couple The ceremony was per-
formed at the Fifth Avenue hotel. For
some reason or other the newly married
couple started off upon their wedding trip in
balloon, ascending from Central Park in
the presence of five thousand people. A
week afterward it was howled through the
country that had belittled the holy ordin-
ance of matrimony by uniting couple in
the clouds. At one of your May festivals,
with five hundred children roaring happy be-
fore me, and with Christmas star of ever
green hanging over my head, I said, Boys, 1
LIKE MORNING STAR
Now, it happened that this was the refrain of
some negro song, and member of neigh