. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . shining ones come up on the one side, and the shining ones come up on theother side, and they push you on and they push you up, and they say, Here isan old soldier of Jesus Christ, and the shining ones will rush out toward you andsay, Yes, that man saved my soul, or they will rush oat and say, Oh, yes, shewas with me in the last sickness. And then the cry will go round the circle. Come in, come in, come up, come up; we saw you away down there, old andsick and decrepit and discouraged because you could not go away down
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . shining ones come up on the one side, and the shining ones come up on theother side, and they push you on and they push you up, and they say, Here isan old soldier of Jesus Christ, and the shining ones will rush out toward you andsay, Yes, that man saved my soul, or they will rush oat and say, Oh, yes, shewas with me in the last sickness. And then the cry will go round the circle. Come in, come in, come up, come up; we saw you away down there, old andsick and decrepit and discouraged because you could not go away down there, 336 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK but As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tar-rieth by the HEROES OF THE PULPIT There is high consolation in this for aged ministers. They sit in pewsin our churches. They used to stand in pulpits. Their hair is white with theblossoms of the tree of life. Their names marked on the roll of the GeneralAssembly, or of the consociation, Emeritus. f hey sometimes hear a U-xt. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, RICHMOND, VA. announced which brings to mind a sermon they preached fifty years ago on thatsame subject. They preached more Gospel on four hundred dollars a year thansome of their successors preach on four thousand dollars. Some Sunday theold minister is in a church and near by in another pew there is a husband anda wife and a row of children. And after the benediction the lady comes up andsays, Doctor, you dont know me, do you ? Well, he says, your face isfamiliar, but I cannot call you by name. Why, she says, you baptized me HIS CLOSING MINISTRY 337 and you married me and you buried my father and mother and sisters. Oh,yes, he says; my eyesight isnt as good as it used to be. They are in all our churches—the heroes of i860, the heroes of 1870, theheroes of 1880. By the long grave trench that cut through half a century, theyhave stood sounding the resurrection. They have been in more Kalaklavas andhav
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