Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-17

Walked and Where He Preached.
ROME, Nov. iO.-The Rev. T. Do
Witt Talmage, ID. d., Mrs. Talmage
and Miss Talmage, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Klopsch, arrived in this city
last evening. Today the great Brook
lyn divine preached TO a large congre-
CATION from the text, Acts 10, u: Il
must also see Rome" A full report
of the sermon follows;
Here is Paul's itinerary. He was a
travelling or circuit preacher He had
been mobbcd and insulted, and the
more good lac did the worse the world
treated him. But he went right on.
Now he proposes to go 10 Jerusalem
and says. After that | must also see
Rome" Why did he want 10 visit
this wonderful city in which | am To-
day permitted to standi TO preach
the Gospel. YOU answer No doubt
of il, butthcre were other reasons why
he wanted 10 see Rome. \ man of
Paul's intelligence and classic taste
had fifty other reasons for wanting TO
see ii. Your Colosseum was at that
time in process of erection, and he
wanted 10 see il. The Forum was
ever then an old structure, and the
eloquent apostle wanted TO see that
building IN which eloquence had SO
often Numbered and wept. Over the
Appian Way the triumphal professions
had already marched for hundreds of
years, and he wanted 10 see that The
Temple of Saturn was already an an.
tiquity, and he wanted 10 see that.
The architecture Of the world re-
nowned city, he wanted TO see that.
The places associated with the tri-
umphs, the cruelties, the disasters, the
wars, the military genius, the poetic
and tile rhetorical fame of this great
city, he wanted 20 see them. a man
like Paul, so many sided, so sympa-
thetic, so emotional, SO full of an
alogy, could net have been indiffer-
ent TO the antiquities and the splendors
whichsmove every rightly organized
human being. And with what thrill
OF interest he walked these streets,
those only who for the first time like
ourselves enter Rome can imagine. IL
the inhabitants of all C~hristendom
were gathered into one plain, aAd it
were put 10 them which two cities
they would above all Others wish to
see, the vast. majority Of them would
vote Jerusalem and Rome. So we can
understand something OF the record of
my text and its surroundings when it
says, Paul 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 way 10 Palestine.
Since leaving Brooklyn, y. ", this is
the first place we have stopped. In
termedlate cities are attractive, but we
have visited them in other years, and
We FASTENED on, for | said before
starting that while | was going 10 see
Jerusalem | must also see Rome. Why
do | want 10 see III Because | want,
by visiting regions associated with the
great apostle to the GentIles, TO have
my faith in Christianity confirmed.
There are those who will 90 through
large expenditure TO have their faith
weakened. In my native land | have
known persons OF very limited means
10 pay fifty cents on a dollar 10 hear a
lecturer prove that our Christian re-
ligion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a
lie. On the contrary, | will give all
the thousands of dollars that this jour
ney Of my family will cost 10 have
additional evidence that our Christian
religion Is AN authenticated grandeur,
a solemn, aJoyous, "A rapturUus. astu-
pendous, a magnificent fact. So |
want 10 see Rome. | want you to
show me the places connected with
Apostolic ministry. | have heard that,
in your city and amid lis surround.
ings, apostles suffered aud died for
Christ's sake. My common sense
tells me that people do not die for the
sake of a falsehOod. They may prac-
tice "A deception for purposes of gain,
but put the sword TO their heart,
or arrange the halter around their
neck, or kindle the fire around their
feet, and they would say my life is
worth o than anything / al gain
by losing il. hear you have in this
city Paul S dungeon. Show it TO me.
! must see Rome also. While | am
interested in this city because Of her
rulers or her citizens who are mighty
in history for virtue or vice or talents,
Romulus, and Caliguli, and Cincin-
natus, and Nespasian, and Coriolanus,
aud Brutus, and a hundred others
whose James are bright with an ex-
ceeding brightness, or black with the
deepest dye, mostof all am ! interested
in this city because the preacher Of
Mars hill, and the DETER Of Agrippa,
and the hero Of the shipwrecked yes.
sci in the breakers of Melita, and the
man who held higher than any one
that the world ever saw the torch Of
Resurrection, lived, and preached, and
was massacred here. Show me every
place connected with his memory. i
must also see Rome.
CHRISTIAN CURIOSITY.
But my text suggests that in Paul
there was the inquisltive and curious
spirit. Had my text only meant that
he wanted 10 preach here he would
have said SO. Indeed, in another
place, he declared: Il am ready 10
preach the Gospel 10 you who are at
Rome also But my text suggests a
sight seeing, Thisman who had been
under DIR. Gamaliel had no lack Of
~phraseology, and was used 10 saying