. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . you do not need to advertise it in the daily paper in order for peopleto find out about it. Some one will get traces of it, and noise it abroad. Godhides the great veins of gold deep in the fastnesses of the hills, but if there beone little jutting nose of quartz thrust out of the edge of the cliff, the pros-pector, searching for the precious metal, will find it. and the miners will teardown the hills, and tunnel the mountains to get the hidden gold. This youngpreacher in Syracuse had an eloquence all his own. There were other me
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . you do not need to advertise it in the daily paper in order for peopleto find out about it. Some one will get traces of it, and noise it abroad. Godhides the great veins of gold deep in the fastnesses of the hills, but if there beone little jutting nose of quartz thrust out of the edge of the cliff, the pros-pector, searching for the precious metal, will find it. and the miners will teardown the hills, and tunnel the mountains to get the hidden gold. This youngpreacher in Syracuse had an eloquence all his own. There were other men asearnest, other men as scholarly, other men with equal knowledge of books andof human nature who attracted no especial attention. But here was a manwith unique gifts, who thought in pictures, and who dared to speak his great artist sees pictures, and has the skill to paint them. Talmage beheldpictures in his imagination, pictures with the red blood of life in them, and hehad the eloquent tongue to make them live before the people who sat in the. .jAh *- l.\ THE » seats before him. Some criticised, many said his language was exaggerated:that his style was unministerial; but none of these things mattered with the com-mon people. He spoke to their hearts ; he comforted them. Tie made Christreal to them. Religion became interesting and attractive. Under his touchthe Bible became a new book, full of living personalities, and they flocked tothe place where he preached and filled it to overflowing. But Syracuse could not keep the preacher long. Calls came from allover the country. The one that seemed to offer the greatest opportunitv for anenlarged sphere of usefulness came from Philadelphia. And in 1862 he accepteda call from the Second Reformed Church of Philadelphia, and for the first timefound himself with a solid platform under his feet in a great city. His popularityhere was instantaneous and phenomenal. 54 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK
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