Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-21
MEMORIAL SERVICES
TRIBUTE TO DIR. TALMAGE'S LIFE
AND SERVICES.
Sermon Preached Yesterday by DR..
Easton, Pastor of Eastern Presby-
terrain Church.

Services memorial to the late Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage were held yesterday
morning at the Eastern Presbyterian
Church. Maryland avenue and 9Th street
northeast. The congregation completely
filed the church and listened intently to
the sermon delivered by Dr. Thomas Chal-
mers Easton, pastor of the church, and
one of DR. Talmage's most intimate friends
DR.. Easton took his text from II Samuel,
3:3S, Know ye not that there is a prince
and great man fallen" and from Isaiah,
3:1-3 THE Lord of Hosts doth take away
the mighty man, the prophet and the
orator.
DIR. Easton said all nations depend more
or less on their great leaders. whether in
the art of peace, in the field of battle, or
in the halls of legislation, and that the
character and progress of a nation, to a
vast extent depend ON its great men,
whether they be statesmen, philosophers,
historians, scientists. poets, artists, ora
tors or preachers. When distinguished tall
ents, he said. are combined with marked
unselfish devotion to the welfare Of others,
1t Is becoming in people to voice their
grief when great man is stricken down.
Great men," declared tie speaker de-
serve nations gratitude while living and
distinguished honor after death.
What shall We say of The prince in
Israel who has left us? IAN We cc,rp,ess
the ocean into dewdrop? No more is it
possible to condense into one brief nour
what is due to the memory Of our beloved
and Industrious friend. Thousands, yes
tens of thousands, IN .his great republic
and in the empires across the Atlantic have
said in fearful whispers, We shall not see
his like again What an EXCEPTIONAL ca
reer. What a glorious man.
A Truly Great Man.
If as his personal friend for more than
twenty years, l should attempt to open up
the treasures of his real greatness, where
shall we find more of those sterling virtues
that poets have sung, artists portrayed and
historians commended? He was truly
great mana man of God,
THE last four years of his life were full
of happiness in the living companionship
of her who so sadly mournS his departure
He frequently spoke to me of the great in
SEPARATION brought into these years by her
ceaseless devotion to all his plans and
work, making what was burdensome in his
accommodating literary duties a pleasure.
His moral courage was only equaled by
his giant frame and physical strength He
was made of the very stuff that martyrs
are made of, one of the most remarkable
individualities of our time A man of no
negative qualities, aggressive and positive.
His whole soul was full of convictions of
right and duty. A firm friend, a man of
ready recognition, a human magnet in his
focaliZing power, he was true in every deed
life called for no nice circumlocution of
words on the part of his friends to utter a
doubtful eulogy.
Pharaoh on Headlands Of Time
Truthfulness. sincerity. frankness cour-
age, persistency, generosity, honor, mani-
ness, a stern will to fight social wrongs, a
tender heart for peace, an ocean tide of
sympathy for oppressed humanity, and over
all swayed by the conviction that the right
will be might and truth should be- His in
most acts could be examined with honor.
The brightest Pharaoh on the headlands of
time is today extinguished, and that bril-
liant light which dragged thousands upon
thousands to glorious immortal destiny is
gone out No man has lived such an apos-
tolic life since the days of Paul
Farewell, my brother. Thy love to me
was wonderful, and our friendship was such
as that between Damon and Pythias. or
David and Jonathan. To me the world is
drearier and poorer for your departure
Time will soon be ended for him that is left.
and we shall greet upon yonder hills of
frankincense where the day breaketh, and
we shall recount our battles beneath Eman-
uels shrine