The Iola register., 1902-04-25

found impression he had created he
preached powerfully of the dangers
of city life to young men who yielded
to temptation, and made them real
ize that they stood on the very brink
of hell.
DR.. Talmage did not belong to a
class. He was type by himself. His
sermons were unique. His comment
on his style of preaching was: "My
positive mode of preaching seems to
stir the hostilities of all earth and
hell In telling the story of his
life he once said:
Feeling called upon Is years ago
to explore underground New York
city life, that | might report the
evils to be combatted, | took with
me two elders of my church and a
New York police commissioner and n
policeman, and | explored and report
ed the horrors that needed removal
and the allurements that endangered
our young men. There came upon
me an outburst of assumed indigna-
tion that frightened almost every
body but myself. That exploration
put into my church 30 or 40 newspa-
per correspondents, from the north,
south, east and west; which opened
for me new avenues in which to
preach the Gospel that otherwise
would never have been opened.
Years passed on and | preached
series Of sermons on amuSements,
and false report Of what | did say
reused a violence that threatened me
with poison and dirk and pistol and
other forms of eXtinguishment, until
the chief of the Brooklyn police.
without any suggestion from me,
took possession Of the church with
"a policemen to see that no harm
was done"
DR. Talmage is said to have reached
far greater number Of people with
| his sermons than any other preach
er. The sermons he delivered to his
congregation on Sunday appeared
Monday morning in a syndicate of
papers in this and other countries,
and through these channels it is es-
timated that they reached 50,000,000
readers. He also made his influence
felt as editor of the Christian Herald
and as a constant contributor to
numerous periodicals. and was
voluminous writer of books. He
edited the Christian at Work from
| 1873 to 1876; the Advance of Chicago
! in 1877 and 1878 and more recently
! Frank Lesle's Sunday Magazine.
Amopg his writings were the fol-
| Ia.
four volumes of sermons, 1S72-ls75;
denominations of Modern Society"
1872: cold Wells Dug Out" 1874;
"Sports that Kill" 1878; might Sides
of City Life" 1873; "The Brooklyn
Tabernacle, Collection of 1O4 Ser
MONS" 1854; "The Marriage Ring"
1856.
Among his lectures the more prom
inent were the ones on the Holy Land
and Athens, the material for which he
gathered on his travels. The Univer-
the degree of A. NJ. in 1862, and he re-
ceived that OF d. d. from the Univer-
sity of Tennessee in 1884.
This busy, helpful, noble life of serv-
ice was begun at Bound Brook, n. j.,
in 1892. He was the youngest of 12
children, five girls and seven boys. His
father, David T. Talmage, was farm
er and well known for his decision of
character and good humor, while his
mother coupled keen wit with marked
amiability, traits which found a happy
combination in the boy who was des-
tined to fill the world with the sound
of his powerful preaching.
When he was is years of age DR.. Tai
mage entered the University of New
York city but did not complete the
course there, taking up instead the
study of law Not long after this he
! determined to enter the ministry, q