The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-09-18
TAIN AEGEAN THEOLOGY
The Noted Divine Welcomed Home.
Other New York Notes.
Especial Cor. OF STATE CHRoNICLE.

New YORK, Sept. 12-One Of the strange
things in this life is Talmage the Rev.
pr Talmage, the theatrical preacher Of
Brooklyn. | mean no disrespect whatever
when | say that he bears the same rela
tion to "a digntiedi MIN stry that the Scotch
fair AT Faycttevfne bears 70 a session Of
the Trustees Of the University A bugler
called for short and for style 1.-The cornet
artist marches out and blows Il blast be
fore falmage begins his sermon: and, often
before he is done the cOrnet seems a
soiemner and altogether more preferable
instrument than the pul lplteer II 1t be a
week Of racing, Talmage races and preach
es about horses, pranclng up and down his
platform. If it be a week Of political con
yentions, he breaches politics. He'd preach
ANYTHING, You have seen his sermons
printed in the Monday morning editions
Of the papers III St Louis, Chicago, At
lanta and san Francisco, have you not:
That is done in this way There is a dea
ler III news here-he deals in news pre-
ciSely as the late Mr. Friel dealt in old iron
or rags who pays Talmage, 70 day let US
say, so much for a copy Of the sermon
that he will preach Sunday after next
Then he sells copy of the sermon to these
newspapers, which print it as special
kilograms" They get the copy by MALTA
day or two in advance Well, Talmage
went to England early in the summer and
preached around aboat IL the British Isles
But he made it pay; for he wrote out the
sermons in advance that he proposed to
preach, and the news dealer bought them
| He hired an artist to make illustrations Of
| them-one was a man with a sword slash
! ing the devil; another was Of a great snip
| wreck where thousands of folks were
drowning, and 50 on and 50 on, IN the
| regular dime novel fashion and the news
| Il ar fhaSa oil W Ipttp
SO on Monday morning after Talmage
| preached in Edinburgh, Scotland, out came
| all these papers with the sermon by
| special cable, illustrations and all.
| But what | started to say was that Tai
mage has got home, and a big reception is
now in process of getting up to express
| the universal gladness at his return. 1t
| is funnly mixed up affair. The men
| whose names appear in one way or another
in the business Of getting up the reception
| are Doctors of Divinity and other respec-
table gentlemen, Wall street gamblers,
| blag leg politicians, and a mixture of men
| good, bad and unspeakable. They are
| going t 0 welcome him home in few days.
He has been here several days already
1t is mysterious thing this Talmage
mania. How it is that the good churches
| and good church papers take stock in such
! a preacher is one of the mysteries of this
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| pay better than Talmage. With what the
] Tabernacle gives him, the newspapers tof
4 the viler sort, too and the religious press,
| and the folks who 90 to hear him lecture,
| he has got rich And he don't preach or
| lecture without big pay.
| Now to matters that are not mystic
| rious- bicycles, for example. You never
| saw finer sight than five hundred expert
riders ith well developed calves gliding
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| apparently without effort They turned
| out to day on a long parade in Brooklyn
| and down Long Island and back again.
| Then they had races and big dinner and
a high time generally. Among them were
| 4 few ladies who rode on tricycles (Of
course), and they held their own and gave
| good looks ana good cheer to the whole
crew.
But the yachts have had bad luck for
! lack Of wind remarkably " bad luck. This
was the fourth day they had tried to have
| the race, and it WAS dead calm. The
| public Is getting inpatient with the wealth
er. Before you receive this. the first race
may have been run | will not offer to
bet, therefore, with You against dead
| certainty. But it is fine sight to see
these two fastest sailers in the world full
| rugged, splc and span, with picked crews,
| and all pointed and creased to slide
through the water like a dream.
1t is a long way from such fine creatures
Of the sea to your land lubbers who are
now here making purchases for the fall
trade. | mean those excellent gentlemen
YOUR merchants But why is it (will they
explain , that seldom can one find them
at their hotels earlier than II or II o'clock
at night All the wholesale houses close
at 6. They are the most difficult fellows
to find in all New York.
Our Uncle Samuel Tilden's Life and
Writings in two stout volumes is out. In
them his political creed and deeds and
documents lie in good shape for perusal.
What a splendid career he had as Cover
nor of New York And how foxy and coy
he became i'll later years But the whole
some. satisfying, voluminous and we'll
rounded doctrine of Democracy is explain
| ed and exemplified in these volumes
| Tammany is in its decline-thank Cleve-
land But the old machine still goes
through the motion of doing something
Last night it met and swore at the Presi-
dent and against Civil Service Reform,
and Gen. Roger Pryor, the old Virginan,
went again Cleveland, and all the braves
put on war paint and foamed at the mouth
for offices, offices, offices, bless their
capacious patriotism The further this
game is played-this good game of Demo
cratic supremacy the bigger and better
becomes the opportunity of the South.
While the hungry and lame and Irish here
are bowling against that calm stubborn
and wise man IN the White House-ed by
the Buffers and tacitly encouraged by
! the rbold WORLD-the whole crew as un-
like the dignified Democracy of the old
times a street lamp is like the sun
those patient and broad men who stand
squarely up to the President, who think
more of making the Government decent
than of the lOafs and fishes, are the men,
, if there are enough of them. who will rule
for the rest of their active days But this
driviling idiocy of opposing the greatest
leader the party has is doing all that could
possibly be done to discredit the party in
the eyes of the men who will JOIN it if the
President succeed but who will not if he
is howled down in his purpose by such a
gang as Tammany and the Butler crowd.
1t is the Butler crowd that is fighting the
Presidents policy of reform here. Those
who propose to repeal the law aught tc
have voted for Butler last year. The old
cock-eye is down the bay now on his yacht
the America" which first won the eur
they are racing for now. He is one of the
greatest yachtmen anywhere along the At
lantic, old Ben is. He's great in every
way except-as honorable man. Ii
that line of activity. he has not distin