. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ry, I was told that they blasphemed, and theydrank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the housesof iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilahsheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out andthrew him into the prison of evil habits, and he made sport for them. Butin the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses ofGod against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself forward, untildown upon him and his com-panions
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ry, I was told that they blasphemed, and theydrank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the housesof iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilahsheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out andthrew him into the prison of evil habits, and he made sport for them. Butin the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses ofGod against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself forward, untildown upon him and his com-panions there came the thun-ders of an eternal , beware of evil companion-ship ! NAILING A SLANDER. During his Philadelphia pas-torate, Dr. Talmage in one ofhis sermons on Lying AboutMinisters, took occasion tomake the following personalstatement: There is a falsehood whichstrikes a different key, for itstrikes the sanctity of my home;and when I tell the story thefair-minded men and womenand children of the land will be indignantwant to copy it, they can. IN HIS 65TH YEAR A LATER PHOTOGRAPH I will read it, so that if any one mayTt has been stated over and over again in private circles,and hinted in newspapers, until tens of thousands of people have heard the rep >rt,that sixteen or seventeen years ago I went sailing on the Schuylkill River with 111 vwife and her sister, who was my sister-in-law; that the boat capsized, and,having the opportunity of saving either my wife or her sister, I let my wife drownand saved the sister, I marrying her in sixty days. I propose to nail the infamous lie on the forehead of every villain, man orwoman, who shall utter it again, and to invoke the law to help me. One beautifulsummer morning, my own sister, Sarah Talmage Whitenack, and her daughter 6o T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK Mary, being on a visit to us in Philadelphia, I proposed we go to Fairmount Parkand make it pleasant for them. With my wife and child, she being a littl
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