The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-11
REV. TALMAGE AT ROME.
81 MUST ALSO SEE ROME" THE
SUBJECT OF HIS SERMON.

Also Passed Other Cities Unnoticed
to Get to Italy's Capital-work That
Lasts for Centuries.
ROME, Nov. 10.-The Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, d. d., Mrs Talmage and Miss
Talmage, with Mr.. and Mrs Louis Klopsch.s
arrived in this city last evening. To-day
the great Brooklyn divine preached to q
large congregation from the text, Acts xix,
II; Il must also see Rome" A full re-
port OF the sermon follows,
Here is Paul's itinerary. He was trav-
cling or circuit preacher. He had been
mopoed and insulted, and the more good
ne did the worse the world treated him.
but ne went right on. Now he proposes to-
go to Jerusalem and says: "After that &
must also see Rome.h Why did he want To-
visit this wonderful city in which / am to-,
day permitted to stands "To preach the
gospel" you answer. No doubt of il. but
There were other reasons why he
wanted to see Rome. A man OF
PauPs intelligence and classic tass~
bad hfty 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 eloqneuce had so often
numbered and wept Over the Appian
Way the triumphal professions had already
marched for hundreds of years and be,
wanted to sec that. The Temple of Saturn
was already an antiquity, and he wanted
to see that. The architecture of the world
renowned city, he wanted to see
that. The places associated with the
triumphs. the cruelties, the disasters, the
wars, the military genius, the poetic and
the rhetorical fame of this great city, he
wanted TO see them. A man like Paul. 40
many sided, so sympathetic, so emotional.
SO full OF analogy, could not have been I'M
different TO the antiquities and the splen-
dors which move every rightly organized
human being. And with what thrill of In
terest he walked these streets, those only
who for the first time like ourselves enter
Rome can imagine. III the inhabitants of
all Onristendom were gathered into
one plain, and it were put
to 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 undar-l
stand something Of the record Of my texK
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 oil
what We can learn and the good we can
get, am on the way to Palestine Sinca
leaving Brooklyn. N. Y, this is the first
place We have stopped. intermediate
cities are attractive, but we have
vihited them in other years, and
we hastened on, for I said before
starting that while I was going to seq
Jerusalem must also see Rome. Why do
1 want to see It'll Because want, by visit
ing regions associated with the great apostle
TO the Gentiles, to have my faith in chris
tianity confirmed. There are those who
VIII go through large expenditure to havsf
their faith weakened. In my native land L
have known persons of very limited means
TO pay 90 cents or dollar to hear lecturer
prove that our christian religion is a myth.l
dream, a cheat a lie. On the contrary.
will give all the thousands of dollars than
this journey OF my family will cost to have
additional evidence that our christian
religion Is an authenticated GRANDEUR
solemn, joyous, rapturous, a stu
pendous, magnificent fact. So / want to
see Rome. | want you to show me the
places connected with apostolic ministry.
have heard that, in your city and amid
It's surroundings. apostles suffered and died
for Christs sake. My common sense tells
me that people do not die for the sake Of q.
falsehood. They may practice a deceptiona
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 is3
"oi ei uoio enan anything can gam
by losing it,. / hear you have in this
city Pauls dungeon. Show 1t to me.
/ must see Rome also. While / am.
interested In this city because of her ruiersl
or her citizens who are mighty in history.
for virtue or vice or talents, Romulus, anH
Caliguli, and Cincinnatus, and Vespasian.
and Coriolanus, and Brutus, and hundred.
others whose names are bright with an ex-
ceeding brightness, or black with that
deepest dye. most of all am interested fns
this city because the preacher of Mars hill,
and the defer OF Agrippa, and the hero OF
the shipwrecked vessel IN the breakers OF
Melita, and the man who held higher than
anyone that the world ever saw the torchs
of resurrection. lived, and preached, and
connected with his memory. must alsoi
see Rome.
But my text suggests that in Paul there
was the inquisitive and curious spirit. Had
my text only meant that he wanted to-
preach here he would have said 80. Indeed.
in another place, he declared: "I am
ready to preach the gospel to you who are,
at Rome also" But my text suggests a
sight seeing. This man who had been under
Dr. Gamaliel had no lack of phraseology,,
and was used to saying exactly what
he meant, and he said: *E
must also ses Rome" There Ia
such thing as Christian curiosity. Paul
had IL and some OF US have 1t. About
other peoples business have no curiosity.i
About all that can confirm my faith In the
christian religion and the worlds salvation
and the SOULS future happiness, ann full Of
an all absorbing. all compelling curiosity.
Paul had a great curiosity abouu the next
world and so have we. Ihope some day, by
the grace Of God to go over aud see for
myself; but not now. No well man. no
prospered man, think, wants to go now.
But the time will come, l think, when r
shall go over. i want to see what they do
there, and want to see how they do it. T.
do not want TO be looking through the gates
ajar forever. / want them to swing wide
open. There are ten thousand things I
want explained-about you, about myself,
about the government of this world, about
God, about everything. We start In 8
plain path of what we know, and In min-
ute come up against high wall Of what we
do not know. / wonder how 1t looks over
there. Somebody tells me it is like paved
city-paved with gold; and another man
tells me it Is like fountain, and 1t is like a
tree, and it Is like a triumphal procession;
and the next man meet tells me it is all
figurative. / really want to know, after
the body Is resurrected, what they wear
and what they eat; and have an immeasT
surable curiosity to know what 1t is. and
how It Is, and where 1t is. Columbus risked
his life TO find the American continent, and \
shall wa shudder to pO out on a VOYAGE of