The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-05

all the other way. He comes home to
his beloved country and tells how
Russia, her Car and her people have
been vilifed by jealous nations for COM
mercial reasons. He hits the nail
square on the head, and clinches it.
AS New York paper says, DIR. Tai
mage does not belong TO a class. He
is type by himself. Caesar in the
course of right His sermons are
unique, grand and thrilling. His voice
Is like thunder in the heavens, pealing
forth AMI proclaining the omnipitent.
He does not follow a given style.
He creates style of his own, and he
fills the largest Protestant Church in
America to the doors every Sunday
morning and evening. His remark
able energy in handling religious
topics has commanded admiration even
from those who have differed with
him on matters of grave moment.
His force of reasoning has won for
him the plaudits of millions. His mar
velous gesticulations and dramatic
delivery have held audiences SPELL
bound. He is a man of seemingly un-
bounded vitality. He is always
moving about In his pulpit he walks
back and forth when preaching. On the
street he walks with the springy step of
a man of 30, though he is now almost
81 years old. In his study he walks
when preparing his sermons. He can
think better when walking. In his
home DR.. Talmage lives in an atmos-
phere of refinement and domestic SYM
pathy and love. The tender memories
of a romance help to make sweet his
home life, and his family is his richest
blessing. He is home man, and it is
at home that he prepares the sermons
that go out each week to every quar-
ter of the globe. On the third floor of
his mansion at No. / South Oxford
Street, Brooklyn, it's windows afford
ing view of Washington Park, is the
famous divine's study. 1t is large
room, filed from floor to ceiling with
books. A desk, strewn with books
and papers, stands well out from
the wall with a chair between it and
the nearest window. Here, when DIR.
Talmage begins his work, no one may
enter except his stenographer Once
ready to handle the subject that he has
selected he begins to pace back and
forth amid his books, his head slightly
bowed, forming aloud the sentences
that go to make up his sermon. The
stenographer takes down every word,
and when the sermon Is finished IL is
prepared on the typewriter and is
paa 6u hn
sermon has been delivered to the audi
ence of 1000 In the Tabernacle it's jour
ney around the world has begun. 1t is
supplied by a great newspaper syndi-
cate, among them being a paper in
Madras, India, one on the Isthmus of
Panama, and others in China, New
Zealand and Australia.
When his hours of work are over DIR.
Talmage is always ''in'' to his visi tors.
Go to his house and he win receive
you with a cordial handshalse and
genial smile, There is warmth in
his manner that puts you at once on
sympathetic footing with him.
"Newspapor men," he says, ''are
among my best friends. When I see
one coming into my church think
here comes another congregation.
Referring to the publication of his
sermons in the newspapers, DIR. Tai
mage says:
u 1T was for many years belief with
me that the way 10 reach the business
world with religious thought was
through the secular presA II a thing
ought to be said it ought to be said to
everybody. was impressed with the
fact that the gospel does not confront
the people. Church-going is a habit
and people go TO church only exeep-
tionally. There are 900, 600 people in
Brooklyn, but only 10000 go to
church. Some of the finest people,
socially, intellectually and morally,
stay away. Through the newspapers
they may be reached"
The doctor thrust his hands into, his
trousers pocket cmphatically as Nhe
declared for the efficiency of tho
newapeper Ilc IL newspapef man
himseli' ana kpone ~ practical sid5
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