Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-14

his services. His sermons have been pub
nsned weekly for twenty-nine years with
out the exception of a single week and I'M
til recently through syndicates were printed
IN 3,6o different papers. reaching an esti-
mated number of 100000 people weekly
in the United States and other lands. They
were translated into most European and
many Asiatic languages.
DR.. Talmage was a man given to philan-
thropy and kindly acts He was said to be
possessed of great decision of character and
determination, and was an enthusiast in
Whatever work he undertook. He had re-
markedly strong constitution, which served
him we'll in his long journeys across the
country while on lecture tours
Author, Lecturer, Preacher.
AS an author, lecturer and preacher Dr.
Talmage has been great power, inasmuch
as his message has always been for the
enlightenment and uplifting of the peoples
minds. He was perhaps as widely known
as any prominent man Of today, and his
name is familiar not alone to Americans
but to the peoples Of Europe and Asia as
well, having been graciously received while
abroad in those countries at different times
during his career.
DR.. Talmage had been married three
times, his first wife being Miss Avery of
Brooklyn, by whom he had two children
girl and boy. His first wife met her
death in a drowning accident in the Schuvl-
kill river. Miss Susan c.. Whittemore of
Brooklyn his second wife. and several
children blessed the union. In 1898 he was
married the third time, the lady being a
Mrs. Collier of Allegheny. Pa.
A Varied Career.
DR.. Talmage had wonderful and varied
career, and it is a noteworthy fact that
after all his preaching and Christian work.
extending through a period of forty-six
years, he dies leaving no great church as a
monument to his memory.
The members of the old Brooklyn Taber-
nacle, formerly the Central Presbyterian
Church. have been scattered among differ
ent congregations, and no church can claim
DR.. Talmage as it's founder. One of the
reasons for this circumstance. advanced by
prominent ministers, is that his preaching.
while brilliant and eloquent, was not such
as to result in a permanent church organi-
cation. He preached to the world, and his
words We're applicable for the general up
lifting of the people rather than the indi-
vidual His great strength as a minister
was in the pulpit an orator, and not
among the congregation as a pastor This
is accounted for by the fact that he was
naturally a reserved man and given very
little to the small talk of social life
BY many DR.. Talmage was regarded as
the most eminent preacher of this or any
time, not only in America, but in the civil
lied world. his name being almost as IA
milar in Europe and Asia as in his own
land.
1t is said to have been his ambition to
leave behind him a great edifice in which
the worship of God might be continued
after his death. but after the successive
disasters In connection with the Brooklyn
tabernacle this plan was abandoned.
However. he did establish training school
for Christian workers in the old building
first used by the Central Presbyterian So
ciety. This institution is known as the
Free Lay College and DR.. Talmage was its
president. He has also made numerous
contributions to different institutions and
has given aid in other than financial ways
! Lecture Tour Abroad.
Interesting incidents in connection with
DIR. Talmage's lecture tour in England in
1879 are related in book, entitled "Eccen-
tricities of Genius" by Major j. B. Pond.
who managed the lecturers engagements in
that country. In chapter devoted to Dr.