Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-14
DEATH OF TALMAGE.

DEATH OF TALMAGE.
Passing of the Noted Presbyterian Di.
vine at the National Capitalists
Career.
| Washington, d. c., April 14.-The.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, the noted
Presbyterian divine, died at o'clock
Saturday night at his residence in this
city
| 1t had been evident for some days
that there was no hope of recovery and
the attending physicians SO informed
the family. The patient gradually
grew weaker until life passed away so
quietly that even the members of the
family, all of whom were watching at
the bedside, hardly knew that it had
gone. The immediate cause of death
was Inflammation of the brain.
DR.. Talmage was in poor health
ago for vacation and rest in Mexico.
He was then suffering from influenza
and serious catarrhal conditions.
Since his return to Washington some
time ago he had been quite i'll. Until
Thursday, however, fears for his
death were not entertained. The last
rational words uttered by DR.. Talmage
We're on the day preceding the mar
rage of his daughter, when he said:
"Of course / know you, Maud" Since
then he had been unconscious.
AT DR.. Talmage's bedside, besides his
wife, We're the Rev. Frank Dewitt Tai
mage of Chicago, Mrs. Warren G..
Smith of Brooklyn, Mrs. Daniel Man
gam, of Brooklyn, Mrs. Allen e. Don
nau of Richmond, Mrs. Clarence wy
coff and Miss Talmage of Washington.
Rev. Thomas Dewitt Talmage, the
eminent Presbyterian lecturer and
preacher, was born at Round Rock, N.
j., January Z, 1892, and was there
fore in his seventy first year at the
present time. He was educated in the
University of the City Of New York,
but did not graduate there. He grad
uated from the New Brunswick (New
Jersey Theological seminary in 1855,
was ordained as a Presbyterian
preacher in the same year. He be !,
came the pastor of the Reformed
Dutch church, Of Belleville. N. j.; then
went to Syracuse. N. Y, where his pas
torate extended from 1859 to 1862; he
was stationed in Philadelphia from
1862 to 1869 and then went to the Cen
trail church, of Brooklyn, where he re-
t,a
went to Washington, d. c.. remaining
there ever since. He edited, during
his career the christian at Work"
Advance" Frank Leslie's Sunday
Magazine" and at the time of his fatal
illness was editor of The Christian
Herald"
Among Rev. Mr.. Talmage's best
known books were Crumbs Swept
Up" Around the Tea Table" Masks
Torn Off" "The Marriage Ring"
Woman: Her Powers and Privileges
THE Earth Girdled," "The Pathway of
Life "Old Wells Dug Out" Every
Day Religion" Shutdown" and ''Fish
ing Too Near Shore" He also issued
numerous other volumes, altho of the
more than fifty works published under
his name the majority are pirated from
his works and were unauthorized. His
sermons were published weekly for
twenty nine years, without the excep-
ton of a week, and recently thru the
syndicates were being published in
5000 different papers, reaching, it has
been estimated 100000 people in the
United States and other countries,
weekly. These sermons have been
translated into most European and
many Asiatic languages.
Doctor Talmage was well known
turnout Iowa and the west. He has
visited 'Des Moines several times, de-
lfyering lectures and sermons in this
city on the frequent lecture tours
which he made. He always drew large
audiences whenever he appeared here;
indeed, his audiences were limited only
by the capacity of the buildings. He is
well known personally thruout the
state, having appeared in most OF the
large cities and towns on these tours.
In preaching DR.. Talmage had
style that was all his own. He
abounded in exaggerated expression,
startling illustration, directness of APP
peal, and an extraordinary earnestness
of delivery which was effective in spite
of it's harsh and shocking variety of
intonations and gesticulations.
His actions made him enemies, even
among church people. He was not
thin skinned, however, and car1cature
and investive only served to advertise
him the more. 1t is related that
theatrical manager covered the bill
boards and dead walls of Brooklyn
with posters of show where an ac-
tor was to make up to initiate DR..
Talmage and caricature his preaching
from the stage. 1t was not DR.. Tai
mage who caused this to be stopped.
for he paid little attention to it. His
friends protested against it, and clear
ed the obnoxious billboards and pre-
vented the performance.
LEVY is PROMOTED.
suncr;ntendent of Burlinqton's Iowa