Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-21

S|a who are waiting for the sermon
Ia thus very likely spoil the effect of
Ind ruin my reputation at the out
I'D of my career or shall take the fell
~ down and wrest victory from the
.nfmy? My mind was made up on the
nstant. I gulped. Down went Mr..
~. to be converted into flesh and
one and muscle, and l plunged into
|af sermon and went through it with
0eh zest and earnestness that the rows
f people who met me at the door to
mike hands declared it was the best
|cfmon they had ever listened to. And
I've been swallowing flies ever SINCE"
'4 added, with a droll twinkle of the
.Fe. whenever one attacks in the
'Aper or elsewhere, simply say to my
.tIf: Here's another fly. I'll take him
own And down he goes. I find it the
'est way to avoid quarrels and to over
ONE trifling obstacles which would
MY be magnified by opposition"
FROM LID re LID"
DIR. Talmage's doctrine was of the
I'd fashioned orthodox type. but it fell
Fith new attractions from his eloquent
lbs. He believed in q Bible INSPIRED
nom lid to lid" and many times during
rs career he came to the front as a de-
'1nder of the integrity Of the book of
|ooks. He repudiated the "higher criti-
Ism" as q menace to the old religion
Ind denounced as impious the doubts
8bncerning miracles and inspiration.
lis famous attack on Ingersoll created
omething of sensation twenty years
no. He scored the brilliant agnostic
b a series of sermons full of vigorous
Mhilippics. Often he chose as q target
N0r his oratorical batteries the foibles
nd besetting sins of society, and he
ever spared his ammunition. He pour
NJ out broadsides on Wall street, the
ploons, gamblers, low politicians and
ll who came within the range of his
ritcism. His forceful denunciation Of
popular vices was equaled only by his
bility to move his audience to tears Of
#gmpathy when he chose to appeal to
"he emotions. No preacher in a century
ould describe in such moving Ian.
mage the charms of home, the moth
rs love for a maynard child, the de.
ghts of rural life or the simple faith
Il the believer in Christ and heaven.
lie was unquestionably within a GER
bin wide range the most vivid and pic
hresque speaker the American pulpit
hs ever known, and his sermons and
Writings alike were Turneresque in lit
fary color and expression. His religion
Fas the old satisfying "corn and wine''
& the gospel, which the multitudes ap-
reciated. He was always in his best
ein when facing q miscellaneous as
emblage In the great cities. He has
frequently spoken before 10000 per
bns, and his great audiences at the
academy of Music, New York; in the
hicago Auditorium and in London
liverpool and Glasgow have rarely
een equaled in point of numbers. He
delighted, too, in an audience of farm
rs. Such gatherings never failed tC
Comprehend his homely doctrines.
He used to say that he had long since
lived down" the frills and nonessen
Rls of religion. "At twenty" he would
Explain, az believed several hundred
hings; at fifty believed about score
ut now, with clearer vision, as grow
der and come nearer the close Of thu
ourney, hold only to three things a
Habitat God our Father loves us ia
otter than we know, that Jesus Christ
is Son, is our Redeemer and Saviou
nd that am a sinner, enriched by hi
race, though all unworthy"
oND OF RELIGIOUS LITERATURE
All his life he was inordinately fon,
religious literature. Even in child
pod he would read Scott's Commenta
les, bulky volume, when he was to
mall to sit upon chair and had t
se a stool instead. If he could hav
hastered even a single foreign Ian
uage, he would probably have becom
missionary like his brothers, but b
nd no knack of acquiring strang
bngues, so he stuck to the plain An
o-Saxon and to such purpose that hi
turdy utterances have been translate
hto nearly a score of foreign Ian
uages. When he visited Athens Il
300, he was presented to Queen Olgs
rho told him that she "had the pleas
re OF reading his sermons in her na
We Greek In her own capital In tn
blumns Of a weekly publication.
through such means he doubles
eached much vaster audiences In FOL
gn lands than any missionary coul
yer hope to reach. When he was NAL
hg his round the world trip. he foun
Is sermons read In so many place
bat he afterward used to say joculal
81 felt on that trip as though 1 wa
paking round Of pastoral calls"
Speaking of the secret of his ow
overs, DR.. Talmage once said. q
AXE the subjects that are interestin
eople all around me every day an
PARTICULARLY at the moment. jot dow
by notes In a little book and alway
~ to get down the precise point
fish to make. Then take all avail,
Il