Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-16
Il MUST ALSO SEE ROME.

L. MUNI ABNU OLE HUME.
TEXT OF DR.. TALMAeE's SERMON
FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 10.
Tho Eminent Brooklyn Divine In the
Eternal City, Studying the Streets, Up
! and Down Which the Apostle Paul
Walked and Where He Preached.
ROME, Nov. i0.-The Rev. T. Dc
Witt Talmage, D. 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 large congre-
cation from the text. Acts 10, 81: II
must also see Rome" A full report
of the sermon follows:
Here is Paul's itinerary. &c was
travelling or circuit preacher He had
been mobbed and insulted, and the
more good lie 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.a Why did he want to visit
this wonderful city in which am to-
day permitted to stand2 TO preach
the Gospel" you answer. No doubt
of it, but thee, were other reasons why
he wanted to see Rome. A man Of
Paul's intelligence and classic taste
had fifty other reasons for wanting to
see it. Your Colosseum was at that
time in process of erection, and he
wanted 10 see it. The Forum was
even then an old structure and the
eloquent apostle wanted to see taat
building in which cloquence had so
often Numbered and wept. Over the
Appian Way the triumphal professions
had already marched for hundreds Of
years, and he wanted TO see that. The
Temple of Saturn was already all an.
tiquity,- and he wanted to 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 the rhetorical fame of this great
city, he wanted to see them. A man
like Paul, SO many sided, SO sympa-
thetic, so emotional, so full of an
alogy, could not have been indiffer-
ent to the antiquities and the splendors
which move 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. If
the inhabitants of all Christendom
were gathered into enc 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
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 l 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 to Palestine.
Since leaving Brooklyn, N. Y, this is
the first place we have stopped. In
termediate cities are attractive, but we
have visited them in other years, and
we hastened on, for l said before
starting that while l was going to see
Jerusalem must also see Rome. Why
do | wantito see it2 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 60 through
large expenditure to have their faith
weakened In my native land | have
known persons of very limited means
to pay fifty cents or dollar to hear a
lecturer prove that our Christian re-
ligion is myth, dream, cheat, a
lie. On the contrary, l will give all
the thousands of dollars that this jour
ney of my family will cost to have
additional evidence that our Christian
religion is an authenticated grandeur,
a solemn, ajoyous, a rapturous, stu.
pendous, a 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 its surround
ings, apostles suffered and 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 deception for purposes of gain,
but put 1.-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 more than anything I can gain
by losing it. l hear you have in this
city Paul's dungeon. Show it to me.
I 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 Vespasian, and Coriolanus,
and Brutus, and hundred others
whose names are bright with an ex-
cecding brightness, or black with the
deepest dye, most of all am l interested
in this city because the preacher of
Mars hill, and the defer 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. !!
must also see Rome.
CHRISTIAN CURIOSITY.
But my text suggests that in Paul
there was the inquisitive and curious
spirit. Had my text only meant tina:
he wanted to preach here he would |
have said SO. Indeed, in another
place, he declared; II 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, DIR. Gamaliel had no lack of |