Year: 1879

you will not deny that have this advantage
over my clerical brethren-I never assault
them. The dear souls, wish them all good
fortune and prosperity. wish every one of
them large audience, $15, 900 salary,
| A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN,


and heaven to boot. am too busy in fight
ing the devil to stop and assault any of the
/ soldiers on my side. I might, perhaps,
answer some of these ministers with the
| same acrimony that they have shown toward
me. But would that advance Christianity
I suppose that in a war of words might be
their equal, for nobody has ever accused me
Of any lack of vocabulary, but could it ad-
| vance the cause of Christ? Another and bet
ter way is to give them


SOME KINDLY ADVICE.
So, my clerical critics, let me advise you that
you never build yourself up by trying to
pull anybody down. [Applause. You fail
in two ways. You don't build yourself up,
and you don't pull him down. We have
these people know that + never give any but
good advice. My dear, critical brethren of
the pulpit, why assault all these people as
:you do when you assault me? Every man
to his work. You are metaphysical and can
drive people into heaven by raising great
fog here on earth. Very well, do it. You
are anecdotal and can chain souls with your
beautiful stories. Go ahead. You are best
fitted for pastoral visiting. Very we'll, 60
on. The Lord be with you when you 60 to
TAKE TEA WITH TIE OLD LADIES.
Hold the children on your lap, and tell them
how much they look like their parents. Stay
all the evening, and, if it Is raining, stag all
night. Every man to his work. God pros
per you, my friends, and put a blessing in
your hat, and a blessing around you, and
blessing under you and over you till you
mount into heaven, when appoint a meet
ing with you on the right side of the river to
talk over our ministries on earth" MIR. Tai
mage here paused for breath, and then added
in milder tone: "During these ten years
of my ministry here have received much of
misrepresentation.


have been told about me-lies, lies, lies. I
once came to New York from Philadelphia
to marry couple The ceremony was per-
formed at the Fifth Avenue hotel. For
some reason OF other the wiy-married
couple started off upon their wedding trip in
balloon, ascending from Central Park in
the presence of five thousand people.
week afterward it was howled through the
SOAAtAy tAdI L AdA DcAlkACu LILO AOly O1u11-
ance of 1natrimony by uniting couple in
the clouds. At one of your May festivals,
with five hundred children roaring happy be-
fore me, and with Christmas star of ever
green hanging over my head, said, Boys, I
feel


LIKE A MORNING STAR


Now, it happened that this was the refrain of
some negro song, and member of neigh
boring church, who CHANGED to hear it wrote
to religious paper that he had heard 'Shoo
Fly from the pulpit, and that 'Shoo Fly was
sung by our Sunday school each Sabbath.
A religious paper in Maine recently published
the statement that on several occasions had
appeared in the pulpit in war paint, and with
an Indians dress about me, whereupon sew
eral clergymen bemoaned, in the columns of
that paper, the degeneracy of the pulpit, and
ask piteously: is there no way to stop this
man?' Why do state


THESE RIDICULOUS TALES


Is it to stop them? Oh, no. don't want
to stop them. They make things spicy. I
long since learned to harness abuse to Chris
tian work." MIR. Talmage then repeated his
customary thanks to the press of America
for giving him every week millions Of read
ers. "But while," he added, "some of these
falsehoods may have excited your mirth,
there is one that is different, because it in
vades the sanctity of my home. 1t has been
stated that years ago went sailing upon the
Ss1uylkill river with


MY WIFE AND HER SISTER,


and that allowed my wife to drown while
saved her sister, marrying her in sixty days
afterward. ] propose to nail this infamous
lie on the forehead of every man who shall
utter it, and I invoke the law to aid ue.''
Mr.. Talmage then read from a paper which
be had prepared a complete account of the
unfortunate catastrophe on the Schuylkill.
He was in boat with his wife and child, his
own sister and her child. Knowing nothing
of the dam, they were swept over it and the
boat was upset. His wife was instantly
sucked under by the strong current. His
sister, the two children, and himself were
saved by clinging to the gunwale of the
boat. At the time this sad accident occurred
he had never seen or heard of


Ills PRESENT WIFE,


and was introduced to her for the first time
nine months later by his brother. He would
pay 500 to any resposible witness who in
the future would give him the name of any
responsible person who dared to utter this
libel again.


Next Sunday Mr.. Talmage will preach
sermon entitled 'Sensationalism vs.. Stu
pidity."