Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-19
DR.. TALMAGE's LECTURE.

| Rev. Z. Dewitt Talmage of Brooklyn lee
tured at the Metropolitan Theater last even
ing. His audience was an excellent and a
representative one, but by no means SO large
as the lecture and the fame of the lecturer
warranted. Mr.. Talmage is tall and long
linbed, and ought to be graceful on the stage,
but is quite the reverse. In gesticulation and
oratorical methods he flies in the face of all
established rules; his manner is phenomenal
and not to be described except to say that it
is odd. But it has magnetism, neverthe-
less, 10 very effective, and quite soon the
nearer, comes To realize that with Mr.. Tai
mage more formal and less original and pecu-
liar methods of delivery would destroy much
of the interest of the lecture, the action and
dramatic originality of the speaker being
no more phenomenal than the methods OF
his expression. His conclusions and state
ments of belief are delivered with all the
force of bolt shot from cannon. His
declarations come clear-cut and chiseled, and
with an oratorical momentum that justifies
their likeness to red-hot shot from a guns
mouth he is witty, and illustrates his
points with many anecdotes, a majority old
ones, but clothed with new interest His
lecture is full of humor, and vein of humor-
Gus fancy peIvades even the more serious
passages of his discourse. Indeed he kept
his audience all last evening in merry
spirit, manifest by constant of laughter.
In the more intense passages he drew pic
lures in words with a rapidity and brilliancy
and a vividness of imagination that rose to the
higher planes of eloquence, sunk the man IN
the artist and left the auditor wholly to the
magnetism and influence of the scene drawn
for his mental vision. His subject last even
ing was Cheerful Homes, and its character
is quite fully indicated by that title. MIR.
Talllage believes in cheerful homes " in all
in children and children's rights, in SUM-
shiny religion, in not fretting, is an
enemy of worry and stew, and holds
that all things will come right, and all
the fret and care we indulge in will not
change results particle except to our in
jury. He believes in cheerful parlors and
cheerful Sundays; in sunny dining rooms
and romping children in nurseries where
the little ones can kick up racket uninter-
ruptedly; in leaving business cares outside
the door, and in taking romp at home in
domestic humor and parental mirth in men
for their manliness, and irrespective Of the
coats they wear or who were their ancestors. |
He believes In home games, and don't object |
to young people at home, full of life and mer |
riment, dancing so high and hard that |
chain cables won't hold them sdown.
be didn't believe that the bright flowers of
pleasure always grow upon the edge of the |
precipice there is no such thing as being !
happy without making others happy; if you
are in an ur social neighborhood it is because |
you are unsocial when one has to marshal |
the ancestral ghosts tc bolster up his own
worth he is pitiful object; it is not where |
you fought, but how did you fight, not who
are you, but what are you? 1t is not the |
question how rich is your home, but is it
home! The man for him is the man who |
loves his home. who is bright in it, and makes |
himself light in the household in whose |
beams all love to bask. The man for him is |
he who loves God and hates shams. In this !
sententious and epigrammatic manner the lee
turer went on with his theme, connecting his |
texts. which were myriad, by many an anec-
dote and many glowing effect in word |
painting. Tonight is the last lecture, and |
the subject is Big Blunders." The lectures
are delivered under the auspices of Post |
No. S.iGrand Army of the Republic, and the |
proceeds are to go to fund of the Post |
which is sadly depleted, and is needed for |
purposes Of charity