Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-29
TAlMAGE IN AUSTRALIA.
An AntIpotiean Cousins Opinion of the
 American Divine.
ecial Correspondi


 children of the same mother, speaking the same tongue and reading about the same books, the people of Australasia know nearly as little about Americans as the Americans do about us. As you arc 5 times more numerous and correspondingly richer and stronger, we, of course have been forced to learn great deal about the United States. Yet, will you believe it, before Dr. Talmage came over here from New Zealand, n month ago, therc were people of fair intelligence who were pug zled to know whether he was a black, rcd or white man, though tho concensus of unsettled thought was in favor of the lat ter belief
 We knew that Dr. Talmagc speaks Eng fish, for his sermons have been for many years n fc:.turc of our rural weckllcs.
 Mir. R. =. Smythc of Melbourne, colony of Victoria, who is the great lecture man. agcr for all the English speaking lands south of the equator, made the people of sydney very familiar with Dr. Talmagc's portrait weeks before he left the land of the Maori.
 We know much moro about your great men than you do about ours. How many Americans can n8Inc n prominent Austra- lasian? Yet in Sydrcy's great Centennial park we have heroic marble statues of Lincoln, Washington, Grant and Garfield, with many of the Rogers groups, illus trnting your civil war, of life size.
 But tho doctor has come and gone we arc free from tho spcll of his strong per sonality and rid of the fcrvor wrought up by skillful advertising, and So arc able to give a dispaSsiunatc opinion of this per haps the most remarkable if not the most sensational pulpit orator of his day.
 It Is the belief that the Australian opin- ion of your star preacher will interest you that induces me to send tsis letter.
 Our leading daily papers, like The Her aid, Telegraph and The News, have given full reports of tho doctors lectures and the sermon he delivered herc-thc latter in aid of our rOor-and the editorial com mCntS havO bICn favorable without hCing fulsomc. The one exception to this jour nnlistic chorus of approval has been the sydney Bulletin. This paper is avowCIlly skcptical in E ligiOn. \ preacher inilaiuCs 1t as Icd rag does a wild bull. but 1t would have ignored Dr. TGlmage had he not unwiscly, as our educated people think, delivered a lccturc against science, which he was pleased to call Evolution. The other lscturCs were in the hest of taste and delighted every UHC, but educated men who havc no sympathy with Tie Bulletin, and who Gcpiur' it's vile Caricaturcs of Dr. TalmagC, feel that it is not entirely uu- just when i, says:
 The Yankee divine without doubt knows n gr,%t d..!! about the Bible Hs sc, n through Pr ytrrian spCctaclCs. It is safe to say hc can subscribe to the shorter catrCEi~m and the Westminster oCnfrS= ion ui faith. and that hC knows the same by heart. but when he attempts to oppose sci, niit,r truth by mcrc assertions of faith hr proves the wisdom of the adaEr. Fools rush in whcrc angels fear to 11 $@B g- he rts1a nd ,f Rff his flights of stock clOQucncc and his oft rcpl atcd anecdotes, only q few of which were new tO us, wC felt Wa wCrC getting our money 8 worth. but when he attempt cd Ia bIio t!l,' multiplication tahlc and tO stt at Gsii;.uc,' the aXiums uf Euclid th, n wr iVlt ti,;,t wr were being imposed on. and that Mir. R. =. Smytho got our money und,v false prtcnS,s. The Yan- kt"s are a shr'Iyd Irupl", but if We hear that they likr pr. Talmagvs lecture on 'ENulutiun' then our rv>p,ct for them will la fnrC,d down Ia zUro.'
 But whil" Dr THlmnga delighted all who hcatd Linn vu thv platform. the Evo- lutiun" talk ,.I !.,rl. he w:.s found Iu by churinimt i.. i.'-r who had the g"ud for tune tu U,..t hir:l il private Thanks tn H thuuEhtiul \n.,tie..u tIirud, who sent me a letter ui .H;:,ntu',:.n. l WIS able Ia call with auUhv Ht.AG- ut the Australia and was rtCCivtl | v .th % 9v;iUV>S and sim plicity "t u'.u,snr on ,h.' doctors pnrt that put uz al au c,-.' ..'.d won Us to him nt once
 The Eryat priIv vf sydney is it's lr.auti- ful and magnificent harhor ard ns Amer leans arr said tn I~k visitors on the day of their arrival from Europe, Well. what do you think of our country" sn we nrc inclined to ask. Have you seen our har- bOr: and We In";.>urc the intellect uf the visitor by the dCl;rCC of rlptlIrC with which he deScril,CS Port Jackson, as our bay is called. But Dr. Tulmagc did not wait for the inevitable question. He anticipated 1t, and st once poured out such poetic panCgyriC of the harbUr, the city and all thGrCuntn belonging; as won us to him at once Nay. more. He actually regarded our ladies with the eye of an artist and he told uS-I huIo the American girls will not l'C jcaluuS-thnt he had never EcfurC sccn sn many beautiful ladies on the streets as iE Sydnry.
 The doctor i, a keen observer. Why. he told us uf things Australian that WIG did not kEuw ours, Ives, and he showed that he had read up on these colonies before coming to them hy telling Us all about our rsourrCS, like the last annual report.
 Alth0V.,h lvIl subjects uf her majesty the queen If England and tIe empress of India. myself and the friends calling on Dr. Talma"r. like all the younger colo nistS, aTC inclined Ia hC democratic. On the question uf r. iitic, tried to draw the doctor out; hut. t0 my surprise, he avoided my questions or drew into his shell like a turtle. At length he slid, with some fnrCr, ''Wcn. have m idea that the governments of every people arc just tho kind of gov | ernmcnts lh-t suited to them" But doctor" l protested, you might say the sanc as to thc religion Of n people. Then what would become of our mission | aricS.''
 The doctor however, was far tco shicw,i | tu be caught hy this With n smile and a drnIyl, he replied:
 ''R,Ii zion. as understand it, Is di- vine institution; Euvcrnncnt, ;!s tie world | understands it. iS n human institution. NOu might as well try to compare the muVcIncut uf a star with that of a railroad train. But to como back to your harhor. | IT will live forever in my memory as the | most magnificent bay ever saw And then ho went on to praise Us, and gave up my attempt to get n comparison be- | tween your state governments and those of our seven .\ustralasian colonies. We hare had hero American actors, sing ITS. circuscs and pugilists, and need not tdd that We have had quite our share of | American sv lndlcrs and adventurers- | sOme of the latter remain with us unfor. l .unately-but can say with all trsth that l never bcfoc,, has an American visitor creat- ed so great sensation or left so favorable an impression us Dr. Talmage.
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