Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-16
As FIRM AS eIBRaLTER
Gods True Church Shall March to
Victory.
SEIZED WITH ORV DYSPEPSIA
The Caping Critics Against Evangelical
Churches Fail to Take
the Remedy =
THAT WILL RESTORE HEALTH.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, February lj.-An-
ether installment of complimentary letters
on Dr.. Talmage's birthday comes through
the Brooklyn Magazine. Among the more;
remarkable are the letters of Senator Col,
quit, Ex-Governor Blackburn and DR.. Spear.
Senator Colquitt writes as follows:
- SENATE CHAMBER, ,WAsHNGToSsa
Rev. T. Dewitt TaImage. D. D.:
My YDGaE SIR-I beg to,tender you my
sincere. congratulations On the event OF
your birthday anniversary, day that gave
to the world preacher Of the Cristian faith
whose eloquence is unrivalled, whose week
ly congregations embrace the people OF an
entire continent with whom every senh-
ment and religious prejudice are subordi'
mated to Christian love for the human race
whose highest ministerial ambition is to
make men better, and compel them to love
one another; such day deserves cordial
recognition from every good man in the land
and with all my heart l tender you my own,
A. II. CoLQUITT.
Ex-Governor Luke P. Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, writes to the editor of the Brooklyn
Maga zine as follows: Il sympatize most
heartily with the friends and admirers Of
DR.. Talmage in their desire to make his
ffty-third anniversary an occasion for con-
graduation and gladly embrace the oppor-
tunity of extending to him my most cordial
greeting. The day of his nativity was one
fraught indeed with the rich bounty of God
to this generation and pregnant with an In
tellectual and moral force and power des-
tined to stamp itself upon succeeding ages.
Among the most prominent to-day upon the
watch towers of Zion stands he whom we
delight to honor fighting for the faith of the
fathers against fanaticism and bigotry with
in and the evil and blasphemous tendencies
Of the age without. Whenever aud where
ever skeptcism aud scienee--talsely 90
called-have reared their sacreligious heads
the sword oi the Lord Of Talmage has sm't-
ten and driven them to confusion and
shame. l esteem it a high privilege to
know him and call him my friend. Would
that could pay fitting tribute to his
genius and Godliness, Che embodiment Of
all that is eleyating, manly and. ennobing
in life. pray that his life may long be
spared as an ornament 10 hisiprofession
and blessing and an
| Honor to His Race.
DR.. S. T. Spear says; Though not an
habitual attendant upon his church, have
within the last FIVE years heard him preach
as many as a hundred sermons; and hence
think I know what he is in the pulpit as
well as out of it. Ny judgment is that
taken all in all he is the most remarkable
impressive, attractive and profitable preacher
of the Gospel to whom ever listened. He
is indeed a marvellous man when standing
before a popular congregation, and his his
tory in this city proves this fact beyond the
possibility of reasonable doubt. He is BY
the constitution of his mind genius OF the
highest order, being poet and dramat-
ist, at the same time; aud his great powers
in both respects he utilizes for the glory of
God and the good of mankind, alike in the
pulpit and elsewhere"
At the BROOKLYN Tabernacle to-day, DR..
Talmage publicly announced the receipt OF
twenty dollars sent him in an anonymous
letter for charitable objects, and said that
halt had been given to the reformatory for
convicts, Houston street, New York, and
the other half through the deacons to buy
winter coal for a poor woman.
The opening hymn in the services was:
Salvation, the joyful sound,
| What Pleasure TO our carr;
| A sovereign lain for every wound.
| A cordial for our fears
The subject of the sermon was a reply to
SANDERS against Evangelical churches re.
Gently uttered by inGdel pulpits and plat
forms. The text was from Revelation X,
l0ll: Il took the little book out of the
angels hand and ate it up and it was in my
mouth sweet 9s honey and as soon as had
eaten it my belly was better and he said
unto me Thou must prophesy again before
many peoples. "Dr. Talmage said
The Lesson.
Domitiau, the Roman emperor, had his
realm a troublesome clergyman who
would keep breathing and he exiled him to
a rocky island used for punishment, as
Russia sends convicts to Siberia and Eng
land sent prisoners TO Australia. That
island, now called Patmos, is so rocky and
barren that the inhabitants live By fishing
But one Sunday while the exiled clergyman
of whom / speak sat at the mouth of a
cavern in the hillside, perhaps hummed
balt-asleep by the drone Of the sea, he had
a supernatural dream and time and eternity
passed in panorama before him. Among
the strange spectacles he dreamed he saw an
angel with little book and he asked the
angel If he might have it. Well you know
that things are sometimes incongruous
in dream, and so the angel gave
the little book to him and told him to eat it
mp and that while il would be luscious to
his taste after he got it down he would suffer
fiom indigestion. 0beying the angel the
evangelist in his dream devoured the little
book. and, as had been foretold, il was
sweet while being masticated but afterward
physical distress and bitterness. Who the
angel was and what the little book that be
gave was is uncertain 10 commentators aud
so ! take no responsibility Of Interpretation,
but viii ear that il suggests TO me the creed
of Tie Evangelical churches which seepics
in our time Gpd sweet to chew up but never
can digest. The little book Of evangelism
which the angel Of the church hands out is
to them luxurious morsel Of wittioism bat
lies In them afteCward
ADry Dyspepsia.
All intelligent people have creeds. either
written or unwritten, that is, classification
Of the theories which you have sdopted-po'
Etical creeds, that's, beliefs about tsriffs About
currency, about civil service. about govern
ments; social creeds. that Is, opinions about
manners and customs and good neighbor-
hood; asthetic creedS, that is, belief about
tapestries and ornameRlatioa; aye. relig-
ious ereedss that Is q group Of sentiments
about duty and about the soul and about
the unseen future. The only being who