Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-11
In THE ETERNAL CITY
DE-. TALNAGB BREACHES IN THB HOMB OF
THB CAESARS.
The Brooklyn Divins's Ssrmon-Paurs WandsriDgs
His Journey to Rome, and the Deep
Lessons Drawn ThereirOm-
Reason for Bis Visit.
.pecial Telegram to the Register.

ROME November 1O.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Tslmage, D. D., Mrs. Talmage and
Miss Talmage, with Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
KlCpsch, arrived in this city last evening.
To-day the great Brooklyn divine preached
to "a large congregation from the text,
Acts 19, 81: 81 must also see Rome" A
full report Of the sermon follows:
Here is Paurs itinerary. He was a
travelling or circuit preacher. He had
been mobbed and insulted, and the more
good he did the worse the world treated
him. But be went right on. Now he
proposes to 90 to Jerusalem, ard says:
"After that must also see Rome" Why
did he want TO visit this wonderful city in
which l am to-day permitted to stand?
TO preach the Gospel" you answer. No
doubt of it, but there were other reasons
why he wanted 10 see Rome. A man of Paul's
intelligence and classic taste had fifty 9TH
er reasons for wanting to see it. Your
Colosseum wss at that time in process of
erection, and he wanted to see it. The Fl-
rum was even then an old structure, and
the eloquent apostle wanted to see that
building in which elOquence had so often
thundered and Wept. Over the Appian
Way the triumphal professions had al
resdy marched for hundreds of years, and
he wanted to see that. The Temple Of
Saturn was already On antiquity, and he
wanted to see that. The architecture of
the world renowned city, he wanted to zee
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
m0Dy sided, 20 sympathetic, so emotional,
so full of analogy, could not have been so
Indifferent to the antiquities and the
splendors which move every rightly organ
izsd human being. And with what thrill
of interest he walked thsse streets, those
only who for the first tine like ourselves
enter Rome car imspine. Ii the inhabit-
auts of all Christendom were gathered
into one plain, and it were put TO them
which two cities they wOuld above all
O hers 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 ssys, Paul proposed in the spirit
when he bsd passed through Macedonia
and Achaia 10 70 10 Jerusalem, saying
'Al.sr nat / must also see Rome" As
some Of you are aware, with my family
and cn!y for the purpose Of what we can
lesrn and the good we caa get, am on
the way to Palestine Slnce leaving
Brooklyn, n. Y this is the first place We
have stopped. Intermediate cities are at
traclive bat Te have visited them in
other years, aud we hasten on, for said be-
fore starting that while was going to see
jerusalem l must also see Rome. Why
90 l want TO see it2 Because | want, By
visiting regions associated with the great
apostle 10 the Gentiles, TO have my faith
in Christianity confirmed. There are
those who will GO through large expendi-
tufe to have their faith weak
ered. In my native land / have
known persons of very limited means
10 psy fifty cents or a dollar 10 hear a
lecturer prove that our Christian religion
is myth, dream, a cheat lie. On the
contrary, I will give all ths thousands OF
dollars that this journey Of my family
will cost to have additional evidence that
our Christian religion is an authenticated
grandeur, solemn, joyous, a rap,urous,
astupendous, a magnificent fact 50 l
want to see Rome. | want you to show
me the places connected with Apostolic
ministry. have heard that, in your city
and amid its surroundings apostles suffer
ed and died for Chrisl's sake. bly, COM
mon sense tells me that people do not die
FOR the sake Of q i4lsehood. They msy
practice a deception for purposes OF gain,
but put the sword 10 their heart, or arraoge
the halter around their neck, or kindle the
fire around their feet, and they msy say my
life is worth more than any thing can gain
by losing it. hear You have in this city
Paul's dungeon. Show 1t to me. NUT
see Rome also. While | am interested in
this city because of her rulers or her citi-
zeos wno are mighty in history for virtue
or vice or talents, Romulus, and Osllguli,
and Cipcinna,us, and Vsspasian, and G IL
olsnus. and Brutus, and a hundred Others
whose names are bright with an exceeding
brightness, or black with the deepest dye,
most of sll am i interested in this city be-
c ,use the preacher Of Mars hill, aud the
defer Of Agrippa, and the hero Ct the
ablpwrecked vessel in the breakers OF
Mslits, and the man who held higher than
any one that the world ever saw the torch
Of Rss5 direction, lived, ard preached, and
was massscred here. Show me every place
connected with his memory. / must also
ses Rome.
PAUL's INqUIRING SPIRIT.
Bat my next suggests that in Paul
there was tie inqnisitive and curious
spirit. Hsd my text only meant that he
wanted to preach here he would have
said 50. Indted, in another place he de
clared: 81 am ready 10 pIesch the gospel
10 yon who are at Rome also" But my
text supgssts a Sightseeing. This man
who had been under DR.. Gamsljel had 10
lack cf pharaseology, and was used to say
inc exactly what he meant, and he said:
''I must also see Rome" There ia such a
thing as Christian curiosity. Paul had 1t
and some of Us have 1t. About other
psople's business / have no curiosity.
About all that cotfrm my faith in the
Christian religion and the worlds saliva
ton and the soul's fuiure happiness
am fall Of an all absorbing all compelling
cur;Osity. Paul hsd great curiosity
sbont the next world, and so have
we. hope some day, by the grace
of God, to 90 over aod see for
myself; but not nov. No we'll man, no
prospered man, think, wants to 90 now
But the time will come, l think, when l
shall 20 over. / want to sse what they do
there and / want to see how they do 1t.
30 not want to be locking through the
gates aiar forever. l want them to swing
wide open. There sre ten thousand things
I want explained about you, about my
self about the government of this world,
about God, about everything. We start
in a plain psth Of what We know, and IN
minnie come up against high wall oi
what We do not know. l wonder hos II
looks over there. Somebody tells me 1t IA
like a fountain, and it is like a tree, aud
is like triumphal procession; and the
next man meet tells me it is ali fsura-
tive. I really want to know,
after the body is resurrec.ed
what they wear and what they
eat; and have au immeasurable curiosity
to know what it is. Columbus risked his
life to ind the American continent, and
shall We shudder TO q out on voyage Of
discovery which shall reveal vssIer and
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