The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-13
TALMAGE In ROME.
The Brooklyn Divine breaches a
Sermon to the Romans.
He Tells why He Wanted to Go Over the
Ground that Paul Had Traversed-
The Great Apostle and His
K Work in the Cause Of
Christianity.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preached re-
Gently to large congregation in Rome
a from the tekt, Acts xix. 81: u must
also see Rome Following Is full re-.
port Of the sermon:
Here Is Paul's itinerary. He was
travelling or circuit preacher. He had
been mobbed and insulted, and the more
good he did the worse the world treated
him. But he went right on, Now .he
proposes to go to Jerusalem and says:
"After that / must also see Rome"
Why did he want to visit this wonderful
city In which am. to-day permitted 10
Btand2 $40. preach the gospel you
Z, answer. No doubt Of 1t, but there were
other reasons why he wanted to see
Rome. A man Of Pauls intelligence and
classic taste had fifty other reasons for
wanting to see 1t. Your Coliseum was
at that time in process Of erection, and
he wanted to see 1t. The. Forum was
even then an old structure, and the elo-
quent apostle wanted to see that build
ing in which eloquence had so often
thundered and wept. Over the Appian
Way the triumphal professions had al
ready marched for hundreds OF years,
OF Saturn was already an antiquity, and
Z he wanted 70 see thai The architecture
OF the world-renowned city, he wanted
to see that. The places associated with
the triumphs, the cruelties, the disas-
ters, the wars, the military genius, the
poetic and rhetorical fame Of this great
city, he wanted to see them. A man
like Paul, 80 many sided, so sympathetic,
so emotional, so full of analogy, could
not have been Indifferent to the an
tiquities and the splendors which move
every rightly organized human being.
And with what thrill OF interest he
walked these streets those only who, for
efthe first time like ourselves enter Rome
can imagine. II the inhabitants OF all
Christendom we're gathered into one
/ gpiain, and IL were put 10 them which
two cities they would above all others
wish to see, the vast majority Of them
f,would vote Jerusalem and Rome. So
we can understand something Of the
record Of my text and its surround
fings when II says, Paul proposed In
the spirit when he had passed through
Macedonia and Achaia 10 go TO Jeru-
u salem, saying. isAfter that l must
also see Rome" As some OF you are
nnrnose Of what we can learn and the
gooS wa can Oet I am on the way TO
Paiestine Since leaving Rrooltlvn, N.
". this is the first nlaoe we have stoned.
Intermediate cities are Attractive. but
We have Visited them IN other wears.
and we hasten ON, FOR said before' START
inc thstI'yb ~ 7 va vainr I'd zee Jeru.
sa1em. Ibiust also see Rbms. WHY DO /
want IA saA it3 Re,,aisa want. bt Wis.
iting resionEi associatad with the kreat
anostia n t,e gen tilek 10 have NV faith
IN Cbristianitv 1onfirmed. There are
those who will 90 through large expen-
ditnre IN have their faitb weakened. In
mvnstiye land nave Known persons Of
yerv limited means 10 nav fifty cents or
"a d3liar fo hear iecfnrer proye that
onr Chr,stian rel,o,on Ia a mvth. adream.
.a~.aheat a lie. On the CONTRARY. / will
~ira All the sbo,,sands ~ doilars that
a fhiS. ,ournav of NV family wiil cost 10
have additional evidence that our Chris.
Han raiioion ia an authenticated grand
anr a solemr a ;ovous. n ranturous n
stnnendons a 'maoniacent fact. So /
sst,Uabt to see Rome. II want Won To show
me the nIaoes connected with apostolic
rinistrv Ihave heard that In your city
and amid its surroundinrs apostles suf-
Jared and died for Christ's sake. NV
u e6mmon sense tells me that peoule do
ffinot Ale for tbe salre ~ Z faIsebood' They
NAV nractice a decention for nurnoses Of
!, rain hut INIT the sword To their heart
= ~ arrange the haltar around their neck,
or tindIe the Are around their feet and
thew won,d rav.I I,sMvsiife ia worth more
than anv thing IL can gain by losing Il. y
hear Won have IN this oitv Paul's dun.
eaon Show ,t N me. must zoe Rome
siso While 7 am interested In thls oity
hecapse ~ her rulers or her citizens who
are mighty In, history Tor yirtue or vice
~ talents Ramnius and Calionla and
Gncinnatna and Vesnasian and Corio-
,anna and Rrntus and a hundred others
-: whose names are brigbt with an exceed.
inc bt,gbtness. or black with the deepes,
ave. most OF ali am / Interested in this
.acansa the nraacher NJ Mara HilI.
and the defier Of Agrinna' and the hero
~ the sbinwrecl,ed vessel in the break.
o-s 20 Wal,ta snd tha MAJ, ,yho Mold
btsha, than anv ono that the world aver
sas, the torch N Pasnrraction lived
and rraachod and ,yaa nnassacred here
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snn,a o 0fSy n,at paie aIso san Rnrno
pnt -, ta-t srnoos,s thot In Pan,
.ha.a y ,.ao a ;nenisjtivs and crr;on.
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,gantad 70 oraach hera Ra would bays
said so Ipdeed in another nlace he
daciared. st an, raaSy 10 nreach ths
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Ma I mo W. lab n ~ nhraseoloov and va,
ased ~ o 80 san;n, a "a axppctix pS1' what' ha meant
and md he said: "f must also see Rome.