The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-03
TWO NOTABLE ADDRESSES.
REV. DIR. DEEMS AND DIR. A. Q.
DIXON TALK KATTHE DEOICA-
TlON TALMAGE'S
TABERNACLE.

North Caro,ina Has Eloquent Tongues
TO Speak OF Talmage's Great House.
Warming.
DR.. Talmage next introduced Rev. DR..
Deems of the Church Of the Strangers,
New York, whose contribution was one
of the first made toward the erection of |
the new Tabernacle. Dr. Deems said !
in part.
1t is very u1safe 10 generalize rapidly.
1t is very ugly to 6ogmatize when you |
have generalized. But, sitting here this |
afternoon, have been doing some gen.
eralization. There came to me the gu as
tiou which came to Elijah, "What doest |
thou here, Elijah ?" Then l began to 60
over my mind and heart, "what did
bri9g me here this afternoon between SER
vices, to take part in your service 2"
have generated In this way: Very sci
dom does any man, great or small,
do anything from one motive.
have not been able five times in
ny life to discover that l did anything
tr)m one single, solitary motive. There
were always several. To-day [ don't
pretend to myself nor to you that an
opera'e1 upon by one motive, but very
many Serr p.b!ing upon me to make nv
Will 20 come here. In the first place of
all, Ike To see great crowds The
mos interesting thing upon the face of
ca" 10 me Is crowds OF meu. Your
gre = Ii ,uLteins ana yoir great rivers
au yTur great NlagardS are nothing, |
wuli rather hear a congregation like
tGl sug "Hold the Forth five minutes
tnan hear Niagara ihulder for an hour.
There Is something SO marvellous and
stimulating Ia great crowd. One rea-
son | want TO get To Heaven is that every
now and then there come glimpses of
the immense multitude that no man can
number through the windows of the
book of Revelation, and SO often snatches
of the songs OF that great multitude
thar | love to sae the thug and hear the
thing rahearSed here Then ] iud now
and then mnn who Is iUtert ing to me-
] knew wou find him here He is a
mtu have b-eu studying twenty two
years. aud ! have found this about
hi o, that he g a mau capable of i'm
m4nSe enjoyment | am very glad
didn't know him until he was man. As
a boy be must have been tremendous.
Laughter But as a man he is capa.
be OF 50 mUch enjoyment. | love 10 see
Kitten n il play, tiger in its tum
bl,s, set u%u IN the enjoyment of 8
great ra3,i.s is delightful sight anG
ou nj ts slla IF the river do l know 1
maa "a; c2b hold as much fun and 81
much - Brother Talmags Cal
[laug 3 and just wanted to sei
now hc 0 k, this afternoon, and | hav'
seen the sigh Iaughterl and il is gooC
TO look at. You see, when l thiuk aboa
men | go deeper than the surface.
care nothing at all about the whisker
and things of that kind laughter onl
when some one mentioned whiskers
looked at him This man can do goo
many things. He can even go so far a
to take the beard off his face; but ne can
not put it on the top of his head. lou
laughter came here because of anothe
thing Ihave Lad a growing respect for tn
inner man Of the pastor. 1t had roor
to grow, for l had precious little when
first knew him. 1t had room to grow
and through twenty two years that RET
peet has grown. The more | have see
of him in public and the more hay
seen Of him in private life the more
have learned to respect and love hin
And that is saying good deal. Whei
ever you can get to the inside OF ma
for everything has its two sides
have come 10 believe that the inside
the man was so much better than tt
outside Woe to the man whose frient
as they come to know him more, re
that the outside of him is very mut
better than the inside. Then again,
came here because it furnishes an o
portunity of meeting with so many
these venerable and accomplished mi
is ers of the gospel whom dearly lov
for, thank God, there is not mlniste
Catholic or Protestant, that am a
ouainted with in Europe or America
do not love, not one. Applause. | ha
never pa ised a church since l was b
without praying for it, Catholic or II
testant Never. believe the truth
it is in Jesus, the gospel of the bless
God, is always preached by Dr. Ialmat
1t is preached in very curlo
way. someti mes the gospel OF
blessed God seems to be on its head a
sometimes on all fours and sometin
dying With wings; but it is preache
If these crowds had been gathered me
ly because he was play actor, mer'
because he tickled you, merely beca'
he told you you can 60 to the thea
and play cards and all that king of thi
and go to Heaven, be washed off in
Jordan if he told you all that | wo1
not have wanted to see the crowd. 1
he tells you if you drink you will 60
hell and you oil know what De v
Talmage means by hell. ]1e tells yo
you are sinner, without the blood
the Lord Jesus Christ, you never can
cultivated and developed to be partak
OF the inheritance of the saints of lig
~ There is another reason why came hs
ii 1t is this: ,am very glad to see
N great filling ont of the sketch of
Church OF the strangers, whose paste
have the pleasure to be. The Churcl
the Strangers represents largely the
sibe unity of Christians. Fourteen
felent denominations of Christians
can recall there now. We set no s.
by any particular litual, bat We do
the treasures of the gospel by
blessed God. We have come
gesher that way, and when l saw
programme here, said: swell, q
we have done it on g small sc
thank God, in Brooklyn it is going t
dona unon the lgrpe-t possible sea