Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-30
He REFUSED $4,000.
Rev. 4. De Witt TaImnge DIdn't Want
Money for His New Tabernacle
Enough to Stay Month in
EuRland-He Talks of
the Big Tower.

Su8iuuo-k1o Iulkb OF
the Big Tower.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
ROME, November IL. = Copyright =
There is no mistaking the fact that the Brit
ish people love DR.. Talmage. OF this was
convinced before setting my foot on British
soil. When we arrived in Queenstown har-
Dor the tugboat Flying Fox delivered mail
to the passengers. The letters, kilograms and
cablegrams received were innumerable, and
need not say that the great Brooklyn
preacher got the lions share of them. OF
these offers of assistance in raising funds for
the new and larger tabernacle were whole
avalanche of epistolary arrival. A repre-
sentative of one Of the foremost religious
journals of the world came prepared to close
an arrangement for a months preaching
tour through England, suggesting that the
English people would cheerfullY respond to
the amount of R5, 900 ($25, ,0O0) toward the
tabernacle to be built In Brooklyn, if DR..
Talmage would spend that length of time
with them. However tempting such a
munifcent offer must have appeared to him
he could not be persuaded to entertain it.
nor any OF the numerous invitations literally
showered upon him. He said:
While am profoundly grateful for these
cumulative manifestations Of cordial sympathy
and sincere affection on the part of this
people, with whom / have in the past
spent three delightful summer vaca-
tions, l must decline to entertain any
proposition the conditions of which would
be likely at all to interfere with the object of
my trip, which is to personally go over over the
ground rendered sacred by our sayior's pres
ence, during His ministry in the flesh, in order
to better ht myself for my life's mission, which
is to preach the gospel of the blessed Son of
God,a well as to aid me in the accurate preps-
ration of life of Christ that feel called to
q C0nnlatad the
ing spring.
As we arrived in Paris the day after the
Worlds Exposition closed, we were unfor-
tunately not able to see it in its glory.
Getting up early in the morning, however,
we took a coach and drove over to the
grounds in order to see the famous Eiffel
Tower. When questioned as to his impress
ions of the Tower. Dr.. Talmage said:
1t surpasses my expectations. Inever before
saw the exquisite and majestic so effectively
combined. The way to look at 1t is to let your
eye start at the base and very slowly ascend,
and by the time your sight has travelled to the
top you Will hnd yourself out of breath with
emotion. A man who could build that tower
could build a world If he had the materials and
machinery requisite. Nothing that will ever
be built on either continent can take anything
from the originality and splendor of the intel
lect that planned that marvel before yet It's two
first bars of iron were interlaced. But the idea
have seen in some newspapers that we cannot
equal that structure for our American Exposi-
ton of 1892. is an absurdity as high as Eiffel
Tower. Our American architects and en-
gineers are as talented our building materials
as strong, our foundations as solid, our
skies as lofty. Surely the lines of beauty
are not all exhausted. l warrant you
there are already dozen American artists
who have a tower more graceful than this,
either in their brain or actually put In diagram.
Give our American genius chance for such
structure. The history of this Eiffel tower
proves not only that the thing can be done, bnt
that it will be financially remuneratiVe. AS
sure as we live we shall see in America in 1892
a tower higher, stronger, more delicately grace
full and with larger financial income. If the
Eiffe tower is 1000 feet high, we can have
tower 1.5O0 feet high; if that weighs 150 900 900
pounds, we can have one weighing 200, ,000 600
pounds; if 10000 persons can stand in it at one
tlme we can have l5OU0 in ours. As America
has the greatest cataract coming down, she
might as well have the greatest tower going up.
LOUIS KLoPsCH.