. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . hed by every days sun as it rises. Dr. Talmage, the lecturer, the racon-teur, the companion, is one man. Rev. Talmage is another man. There aretwo in one, and yet none of the Jekyll-and-Hyde business, no cloaking- of iniquity,because there is no iniquity to cloak. But pulpits conduce to soberness, to sanctification, to consecration, and, indeed, hard-hearted is he who does not feel emotion of an original kind when he stands in theshadow of the Cross to speak the words which are written in the chronicles ofages. A FASCINA
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . hed by every days sun as it rises. Dr. Talmage, the lecturer, the racon-teur, the companion, is one man. Rev. Talmage is another man. There aretwo in one, and yet none of the Jekyll-and-Hyde business, no cloaking- of iniquity,because there is no iniquity to cloak. But pulpits conduce to soberness, to sanctification, to consecration, and, indeed, hard-hearted is he who does not feel emotion of an original kind when he stands in theshadow of the Cross to speak the words which are written in the chronicles ofages. A FASCINATED MULTITUDE Something of an actor, an unconscious histrionist, something of an elocu-tionist, and always a great orator. Dr. Talmage arrests and holds the attentionof every person fortunate enough to get within the range of his voice. A tall man, a well-formed man, a figure which tends to portliness, toembonpoint, with the garb of a clergyman, with an eye which the frosts of nearlyseventy-five winters have not dimmed, an imposing man, rose from a seat beside. NI<:\V ORLEANS WAIFS HOME 324 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK Dr. Palmer, the venerable father of the flock, and began the invocation, Oh, Lord, in a voice which rang through the building as musket butts ring on the flags, a voice of sweetness and appeal which reached every nook and cornerof the great structure, and which was still the voice of the church militant. Thevoice of defiance and victory, the voice of the man who has that faith whichlooks beyond graves and things like that to a future of peace. The voice isclear, marvelously clear, with a range and vitality which make it understandableat great distances; one of those voices given to few men, which combine strengthand sweetness, battle and peace. AN ELOQUENT PRAYER. So the vast audience hung on the first words of the prayer. Those in thataudience heard a tone which awakened memories of days long ago dead andgone, and the plea, the eloquent petition for
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