Milford chronicle., 1889-05-10
A TALK OF OTHER DAYS.
DR.. TALMAeE REFUTEs A STORY
THAT HAS BEEN CIRCULATED.

BEFORE DAscuhsAHB thS A@At'SlA1AiSs9 - s--S
Past. He Denies EmPhatically That He
Ever Advocated BIiscegenatiOn-A Ser
mon on Religious Life.
BROOKLYN, May Sat the Tabernacle to-
day the Rev T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
preached sermon on the subject, "Other
Days Lived Over" and made reference to
the falsehood that he had advocated miscege-
nation of the white and black races The
vast congregation sang the hymn beginnings
Our God. our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come
DR.. Talmage's text was Deuteronomy viii, .;
"Thou shalt remember all the way which the
Lord thy God led thee" He said:
Before entering on my subject | wish to
say that some newspaper correspondents, re-
ferring to recent sermon in which wei
coined foreign nationalities to this country,
have said that advocated as a desirable
thing the intermarriage of the white and
black races. never said so, never thought
50, and any one who so misrepresents that ser
mon iseithera villain or fool, perhaps both
A RETROSPECTIVE SERMON
But to open this mornings subject | have
to say God in the text advises the people to
look back upon their past history 1t Will do
us all good to rehearse the scenes between
this May morning and our cradle, whether 1t
was rocked in country or town. A few days
ago, with my sister and brother, visited the
place of my boyhood It was one of the
most emotional and absorbing days of my
life. There stands the Old house, and rs |
went through the rooms said, 81 could liIIl
my way here with my eyes shut, although |
f,avsa in fort IhnFn
was the sitting room where large family
group every evening gathered, the most Of
them now in better world There was
the old barn where we hunted for Easter
eggs. and the places where the horses
stood. There is where the orchard was, only
three or four trees now left of all the grove
that once bore apples, and such apples, too.
There is the brook down which we rode to
the watering of the horses, bareback and
with a rope halter We also visited the GENE
terry where many of our kindred are waiting
for the resurrection-the old people side by
side, after a journey together Of sixty years,
only about three years between the time of
their going. There also sleep the dear old
neighbors, who used to tie their horses under
the shed of the country meeting house and
sit at the end Of the pew, singing Duke
Street, and 'Balerma, and Antioch" Oh,
they were a glorious race of men and women,
who did their work we'll, raised a splendid
lot of boys and girls, and are now as to their
bodies in silent neighborhood on earth, but
as to their souls in jubiant neighborhood be
fore the throne Of God feel that my jour
ney and visit last week did me good, and il
would do you all good, if not in person, then
in thought, to revisit the scenes of boyhood
or girhood "Thou shalt remember all the
way which the Lord thy God led thee.
Youth is apt too much to spend all its time
in looking forward. Old age is apt too mucl
to spend all its time in looking backward
People in mid-life and on the apex look botf
ways 1t would be well for u.s. think, how
ever, to spend more time in reminiScence. BY
the constitution Of our nature we spend most
of the time looking forward. And the vasi
majority of this audience live not so much IN
the present as in the future find that yot
mean to make a reputation, you mean To es
tablish yourself, and the advantages that you
expect to achieve absorb great deal of YOU
/ time But | see no harm in this, if it doe
not make you disconnected with the present
4 or disqualify you for existing duties.
IT IS GOOD TO LOOK BACK
/ It is a useful thing sometimes to look back
! and to see the dangers we have escaped, ant
| to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the
trials and wanderings Of our earthly pilgrim
age, and TO sum up our enjoyments mean
this morning, so far as God may help me, t
stir up your memory Of the past so that il
| the review you may be encouraged, and hum
bled, and urged to pray
There is u chapel in Florence with frescc
( by Guido. 1t was covered up with two
inches Of stucco until our American and Eu
pean artists went there, and after long toi
removed the covering and retraced the fresco
And am aware that the memory Of tn
past, with many Of you, is all covered NJ
with ten thousand deliberations, and pro
pose this morning, so far as the Lord ma.
help me, to take away the covering, that tn
old picture may shine out again.
want to bind in one sheaf all your pas
advantages, and want to bind in anOthe
sheaf all your past universities It is n prec
ious harvest, and / must be cautious how
swing the scythe.
Among the greatest advantages Of you
past life was an early home and its surround
ings The bad men Of the day. for the mos
part, dip their heated passions out of the bod
ing spring of an unhappy home We are no
surprised to find that Byron's heart was
concentration of sin, when we hear his nothe
was abandoned, and that she matle sport Q
his infirmity, and often called him "the lam
brat He who has vicious parents has {
fight every inch Of his way if he would main
tain his integrity. and at last reach the HON
Of the good in heaven
Perhaps your early home was in the city
It may have been in the days when Cana
street, New York, was far uptown, and tn
site Of this present church was an excursio
into the country That old house in the cit
may have been demolished or changed int
stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you
for there was more meaning in that plat
house, in that small house, than there is in
granite mansion or a turreted cathedra
Looking back this morning, you see it q
though It were yesterday-the sitting room
where the loved ones sat by the plain lam