Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-11-20
In The ETERNAL CITY.
DIR. TAEMAGE's SERMON SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 10Th
81 Mast Also see sOm'."

ROME, November 10-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, DID,, Mrs. Te!mage. and
Miss Talmage, with Mr.. and MIS-. Louis
Kiopsch, arrived in this city ls5 evening.
To day the great Brooklyn divine preached
to large congregation from tie text, Acts
xix, xxi: 81 must also see Rome" A full
report of the sermon follows:
Here is PauPs itinerary. He was a
travelling or circuit preacher. He had been
mobbed and insuited, aid the mare good be
did the worse the world treated him. But
he went light on. Now be proposed to go
to Jerusalem and says; AFTER that | must
also see Rome" Why did he want to visit
this wonderful city in which / am today
permitted 10 stand? ''To preach the Cos
pel" you answer. No doubt of it, but
there were other reasons why ha wanted to
see Rome A man of PauPs intelligence
aud classic taste had fifty other reasons for
wanting to see it. Your Colosseum was at
that time in process of erection, and he
wanted to see it. The Forum was even
then an old structure, and the eloquent
apostle wanted to see that building in which
elnuuepce had so often thuuderCd and wept.
Over the Appian Way the triumphal pro
cessions had already marched f hundreds
of wears, and he wanted TO see hat The
Temple of Saturn was already nn antiquity
and be wanted TO see that TIE architec-
turn of the world renOw ne city. he wanted
to see that. The places associated with the
triumphs, the cruelties, tho disasters the
wars, the military genius, the paetic and
the rhetorical fame of this great city, he
wanted to see them. A man lk" Paul, so
many-sided, so sympathetic, SO emotional,
so full of aualogy, could not have been in
different to the antiquities aud ti.e splendors
which move every rightly organ sed human
being. And with what thrill Of interest he
walked these streets, those only who, fer
the first time like ourselves euler Rome,
can imagine. If the inhabitants of all
Christendom were gathered int one plain.
and it were put TO them which two cities
they would above all Others wis 30 see, the
vast majority of them would vote Jeru-
salem and Rome. So we can understand
some' hing of the record of my text and its
surroundings when it says Ptu! purposed
IN the spirit when he had passed through
Macedonia and Achaia TO go to Jerusalem,
saying; AFTER that must also see Rome. "
AS some of you are aware, with my family,
and only for the purpose of what we can
learn and the good we can get, am on the
wav to Palestine. Since leaving Brooklyn,
N. Y, this is the first place we have stop
ped. intermediate cities are attractive but
we have visited them in other years, and
we hasteued on, for | said beftre starting
that while 1 was going to see Jerusalem
must also see Rome. Why do | want to
see it? Because want, by visiting regions
associated with the great apostle to the
| GeDtiles, to have my faith 10 Christianity
confirmed. There are those ws.o will &c
through large expenditure to have their
| faith weakened. In my native laud | have
known persons OF very limited means to
paw fifty cents or dollar to hear lecturer
prove that our Christian religion is myth,
dream, cheat, lie. On the contrary
will give all the thousands of dollars that
| this journey of NY family will cost to have
additional evidence that our Christian reli-
gion is au authenticated grandeur, solemn,
| a Joyous, rapturous, stureudons, a
magnificent fact. So want to see Rome.
l want you to show me the places connected
with Apostolic ministry. have heard that
in your city and amid its surroundings,
apostles suffered and died for Christ's sake.
My common sense tells me that people dc
not die for the sake of falsehood. They
may practice a deception for purposes OF
gain, but put the sword to their heart, or
arrange the hsiter around their neck, OF
| kluuio tAo hto aiOuhu thOii iOeb, duu tHOy
would say ny life is worth more than any
thing I can gain by losing it, | hear you
have in this city Paul's dungeon. Show ii
to me. must see Rome also. While am
in this city because of her rulers or her citi
zens who are mighty in history for virtue
or vice or talents, Romulus, and Caligula,
and Cincinnatus, and Vespasian, and Corio-
lanus, and Biutus, and a hundred others
| whose names are bright with an exceeding
brightness, or black with the deepest dye.
most of all am interested in this city be
cause the preacher of Mars hill, and the
defer of Agripps, and the hero of the ship
wrecked vessel in the breakers of Melita,