. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . 000, makinga church mighty now and mightier in the future—a church characterized all theworld over for holy enthusiasm and for having given man a mighty stroke forGod and the truth. Then I felt glad to come to a church in whose pulpit RowlandHill had stood, and, after he had done his work so well, had after it laid down torest. A glorious man of Christ!—even his eccentricities consecrated to God. A GOSPEL TOUR OF THE GLOBE 267 While some in this day speak chiefly of him in connection with mirthful andgrotesque incident, those of
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . 000, makinga church mighty now and mightier in the future—a church characterized all theworld over for holy enthusiasm and for having given man a mighty stroke forGod and the truth. Then I felt glad to come to a church in whose pulpit RowlandHill had stood, and, after he had done his work so well, had after it laid down torest. A glorious man of Christ!—even his eccentricities consecrated to God. A GOSPEL TOUR OF THE GLOBE 267 While some in this day speak chiefly of him in connection with mirthful andgrotesque incident, those of us who have read his life and know his work lookback to him as a man of great holiness of heart, purity of purpose and of life—all in the right direction. Then I accepted the invitation with gladness, because I should have thehonor of standing in the pulpit consecrated by the voice of James Sherman—hisname a synonym of consecration to Christ—his name to go down through all theages associated with everything that is good. Then I knew I should have the. THE GREAT ART GALLERY IN DRESDEN honor of standing in a pulpit where Newman Hall had so faithfully proclaimedChrist to the people—multitudes all over the world responding to the invitationof his Come to Jesus. The beloved pastor of your church put into my hand thefirst sermon Rowland Hill delivered at the dedication of this church, printed althat time. In it he makes many allusions to his own ministry. In his prefacehe says many quaint and beautiful and stirring things, in regard to himself andthe ministry, which had been assaulted on all sides, declaring his faith in God—that God who brought him off victorious over all his foes, and made his namehonored in all Christendom, and to be honored in all the ages that are to the opening sentences of that sermon Rowland Hill declares, I take it forgranted the majority of my congregation believe in the immortality of the soul,
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