The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-04-18
HIS LIFE WORK CLOSES
REV. t. DEWITT TALMAGE NUM-
BERED WITH THE DEAD.
Noted Presbyterian Divine Passes
Peacefully from Earth at His
Home in Observation-Disclosures
Co%ntributary Cause of His Death
Family at the Bedside at the Sol
emn Moment When End Comes.

Washington. d. c.. April 14.-Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, the noted Presbyterian
divine, died at 8 o'clock tonight at his
residence in this city. 1t had been evil
dent for some days that there was no
hope for recovery, and the attending
ph ysicians so informed the family. The
patient gradually grew weaker until
his life passed away so quietly that
ven the members of the family, all of
whom were watching at the bedside,
hardly knew he was gone.
The immediate cause of death was in
flammation of the brain. DR.. Talmage
was in poor health when he left this
city for Mexico for a vacation and rest
six weeks ago. He was then suffering
from influenza with serious catarrhal
conditions. Since his return to Wash
ington some time ago he had been quite
i'll. Until Thursday, however, fears for
his death were not entertained.
His last rational words were on the
day preceding the marriage 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, were these members of his fam
lily: Rev. Frank Dewitt Talmage of
Chicago, Mrs. Warren G.. Smith, Brook
Ign; Mrs. Daniel Mangam, Brooklyn;
Mrs. Allen E. Donnau. Richmond. Va,
and Mrs. Clarence Wyckoff and Miss
Talmage of Washington.
Rev. Thomas Dewitt Talmage was
born at Bound Rock. N. j., Jan. 7, 1882,
and was therefore in his list 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, N. j.,
Theological seminary in 1856; was Or
dained as a Presbyterian preacher in
the same year. He became the pastor
of the Reformed Dutch church Of Belle
vile, N. j.; then went to Syracuse, N.
Y, where his paStorate extended from
1859 to 1862; he was stationed in Phila-
delphia from 1862 to 1869 and then went
to the Central Church of Brooklyn,
where he remained until 1894. From
Brooklyn he 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. MT. ldllldSe DeSl
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 Parkway of Life" cold
Wells Dug Out" Every Day Religion y
and Fishing Too Near Shore" He al
so issued numerous other volumes, al
though of the more than SO works pub
lished under his name the majority are
pirated from his works and were IMAM
thorized. His sermon were published
weekly for 30 papers. without the e.
ception of a week, and recently through
the syndicates were being published in
5000 different papers, reaching. it haf
been estimated, 3O,O 900 people in the
United States and other countries
weekly. These sermons have beer
translated into most European and
many Asiatic languages.