Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-23
KISSED OFF THE STAGE.
A Dramatic Discourse Preached BY the
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, DID,,
Yesterday Morning
Shifting OF Scenes in the Drama Of
Human Life God and the Devil
the Stage Promptors.
Good Actor - Encorcd While Men
EtW,. "htir Hands at the Fraud and
ff>N IL Inn out ct Iii, Place.

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H>N IL. Inn out ct ii, Place.
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Special toe4c Gazette.
DISCOURSE oN AZ EVFRN pN SUBJECT.
BRooKLNN, n. Y, Nov. 2S.-Dr Tai
mage preached this morning in the
Brooklyn tabernacle, ON tho subject,
"lliSscd on the Stage Before the Ser.
mon he cNpoundcd the 10Th chapter OF
Acts, concerning l'aul'S appeal unto C,r-
Sar The opening hymn was;
our God our help In ages past,
our hope Tor Years % come,
The text was from job xviii sS.-"Men
shall clap tncir hands at him and shall
hiss him out oi his place. Following Is
the sermon in full
This allusion seems 20 be dramatic
The bible more than once makes such al
lusion Paul SAYS; "Wc are made the
alter tOr specaclelto angels and 10 men. -
The theater is so old that no one can nN
the date of It's BIRTH trchllochuS, Sim.
Guides and Solun, who wrote for il
dithyramhics, lived about six or seven
hundred years before Christ 1t Is evl.
dent from the text that some of the habits
OF the theatcr-goers were known In Jobs
time, because I'm the text he describes an
actor Kissed of the stage The imper-
senator comes ON the boards and either
through lack Of study of the part he IS to
take or aptness or other incapacity, the
audience are offended and express their
disapprobation and disgust first by over
applause, attempting by great clappmg of
hands to drown out what he SAYS; and
that failing, to stop the performer they
( put their tongue against their teeth
and make terrific sibllatiOu until
he disappears behind the cur
tain. "Nlen shall clap their hands at
him and shall hiss him out OF his blaze ~
EVERY MAN As ACTOR.
NV text surucsts that each one of us is
put on the stage of this world to take
some part. McCuuough the actor, re-
Gently buried, was no more certainly an
roiptcd on amy occasion TO appear rs
/ Snortoru. an Cfwin Forrest ms King
/ / cor or charlotte t'pshmuu ms MEG Mcr.
/ rilIrs an, Iuhn Kr,ubje ma Nlachrtb or
I Cnotr MS Richard IN or Rom as Otheno.
/ tbnn vo,, tnd I arr. rvpcctpd ia tal,r some
,..',,.,,, o,,I r,,.ticuIa,. ro,t la mo ,rr,t
| drama Of I,uman and immortal Hfc
,,1,r',,,o,, ,,bot i,r,,,hi,, ami a, rf,rin,, ord
discinline those artists went yoar ai,m
go. th.,, ,l,.,, r,igbt IN, .,orfrctcd /, th.i,
D. Nafau OFF a.
u, tI,S .t,Wn of tbis Ilfn renrrerrt
chority and f,itr o,,d buuorifv nra holm
G,I,,o,y nhat ii,tI. ,,rcnor,ti1n ,cc l,,r,
nodc olthougb ,yn bavr tbrcc oollrrips o'
.,,,,,,t,,t,,rs
r,pTu ,vp HEAVEN AND uFtr
It,yo 100 moi Noon moro attentive T.,
-, 3D., h,, otr,nrs tl,an to tbc norI
,,G 20" ~, ",rsoiycs n,d ,,htie ,o nccGo,
en-" , " ~, hn,,n and corc.ntcrin,
Nv Nv D,,, I',, 800 h,yc noon rriticIs,n,
U 1, '"' Nv" ,,f ,.,,,,rs onN so,in,,,,bo'
~, III - ,r ,tto,, lo,,, i ,'r "tn,
W. - ~, .,r,,,,,,.a,,t :, ,,r .,,,,
-, ,.ati,, - ,c,,iin W. won, r,,lin,
',,,.i,,t,.aso Js,a faiinro and nr,narjn,, a.
w, - 4, tl,,,.i,, Ltssod az tho sta,,oi
tSooL o,, 10 o:s,gnod nlncn ma snner
'',,,l,,ri> ho,,,t,,,, o,,o,,nd tbn d,1n,o ~
iiS' ~ ~. 49,, thst nr thc othn,. nort -.
ta ,r,,, j,a cai "d rnon Ma ono r,n taI,,
-! v,son t,i,o ma othor ,,loco
tro 4, IL NOT the lmnersonutiop OF an
otber we ourselves are the real Merchant
OF Venice or the real Shylock
the real filial COrdelia or the rca
cruel Regain, the real Porlla or th'
real Lady Macbeth The tragedlan OF th'
PLAYHOUSE nj the close OF the third scene
OF tie ftn act takes of the attire OF Con
zaloor, Edward Mortimer or Henry Y.
and resigns the character in which To-
three hours he appeared. But we ncyc
put off our character and no change o
apparel can make us any one else thar
that
WHICH WE ETERNALIN ARE.
Many make failure of their part II
the drama of life through dissipation
They have cnongh intellectual equipmcn
and good address and goniality uu
bounded But they have wino-clOse
that contains all the forces FOR their so
cinl aud business and moral overthrow
So far back az $50 King Edgar OF Englan,
made law that the drlnk-cup should hay,
go, Fa.tonod nt "a certain mint i'm I'M