Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-03
Parker and Talmage.

y. Y. Times.
The Rcv. DR.. Joseph Parker is prom
inent Dissenting minister of London
whose sermons are widely read in this
country. He is also the conductor OF a
religious newspaper called the Fountain,
and the friends of DR.. Talmage will bc
panied 10 learn that the FOlrt"iR has re-
Gently cast up waters which the eminent
acrobat of the Tabernacle will find eX-
ceedingly bitter.
When an cnterprising spcCulator car
ried DR.. TaImage'S legs To England for
exhibition, the editor of the Fountain
welcomed them in kindly manner and
expressed the opinion that on the whole
they were an able and truly evangelical
parrot legs. In course Of time DIR.
Parker found reason to change this
opinion, and i'm late number of his
paper he has openly charged these legs
and their minor aPpurtenancos with the
pcrpetratiOn Of San infamous and un-
mi,igatcd ialSehOOd' According 20 the
Fountain, DR.. TalmaGe, when attending
a Jubilee of the Good Tcmplars-an
English Temp. rance Society-annOunc-
ed that he wasa "teetotaler, a word that,
among the class of people who read Tai
mage's sermons, is understood TO mean
one who totally abstainSfrom bcer,wlnc.
and ardent spirits. Having made this
announcement, DIR. Talmage subsequent
Is went 70 dinner, where he drank
chamuaguc. The FOiut;m thercupon
pointed out that this was inconsistent
with the profession OF "teetotalIsm,
and intimatrd that DR.. Talmagr could
noble ''taclotalcr' and wine-drinker.
4 few DAYS later, when a company Of
deluged BrilOns had assembled to hear
one OF DR.. Talmagc's entertainments, he
read a telegram from the person Nth
whom he dined on the the day that he
had attended the Good Templar jubilee,
DENYING that ne drank wine on that day.
Whereupon ne dismissed the subject
with the remark that the Fountain had
published can iuiamOusand unmluga' ed
| ialSehood," which must be claSsed
'.among the thousand lies which have
been told OF him.
DR. Parker, however, was not crushed
/ bv this answer lie replied, in the
/ Fountain, that a mistake was probably
made in the date. and that DR.. Tamage
l Ibltl Il ttIlNlll dtlltAut VI u NAlA III AAlN
inc that he did not drink champagne on
/ the evening of July :, 1879. Neverthe-
less. the fact that Talmage sought popu.
| laritv among the Good Templars by
/ telling them that he was a "teetotaler,
/ while al the same time he was in the
habit of drinking wine at dinner, still
remained to be diSproved. HE cannot
denv," saws DIR. Parker that he drinks
/ wine. 4 witness in our own household
/ has seen him 10 il. Other witnesses
have seen him do it time after time.
/ To deny that he drank wine at one par
/ ticular dinner, with the manifest inten'
ton Of producing the impression that
/ he did not drink wine at other dinners,
is not. in the opinion OF DR.. Parker, the
conduct of a truthful man. 1--WE
might" continues the Fountain, every
properly avail ourselves of DR. Talmage' 5
own form of words, and charge his sell,
/ defense as an infamous and unmitigated
/ falsehood. We do not hesitate so to
characterized IT, We 90 further than this,
and saw that DR.. Talmage's action in
thisone,matter shows us that the charges
OF deceit and living brought against him
in the Brooklyn Presbytery are very
| likely 20 be true