. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . nces which led to thegreat change that his parents so anxiously longed for. He said: Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists who went through this countrysome years ago, had a wonderful art in the right direction. He came to myfathers house one day, and while we were all seated in the room, he said:Mr. Talmage, are all your children Christians? Father said: Yes, all butDeWitt. Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fireplace, and beganto tell a story of a storm that came on the mountains, and all the sheep werein the fold; but t
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . nces which led to thegreat change that his parents so anxiously longed for. He said: Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists who went through this countrysome years ago, had a wonderful art in the right direction. He came to myfathers house one day, and while we were all seated in the room, he said:Mr. Talmage, are all your children Christians? Father said: Yes, all butDeWitt. Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fireplace, and beganto tell a story of a storm that came on the mountains, and all the sheep werein the fold; but there was one lamb outside that perished in the storm. Hadhe looked me in the eye, I should have been angered when he told me thatstory; but he looked into the fireplace, and it was so pathetically and beautifullydone that I never found any peace until I was inside the fold, where the othersheep are. It was a subject too sacred and hallowed for public discussion and healways shrank from a description of the throes of soul by which he entered46 MAKING A START 47. into life. Only by an incidental reference do we learn of the final scene. Itwas on a Sunday afternoon that the great question was decided. He wasaione and was pondering the momentous subject of his acceptance by frequently happens with young seekers, a sense of personal unworthinessheld him back from the peace of trust. As he meditated on the blessedness ofthose who enter the kingdom and the conditionsrequired of the disciple, the incident of the Syro-phoenician woman crossed his mind. Howso-ever low he might place himself, howsoever un-worthy he might deem himself, he might stillplead, as did the woman in the Gospel, that even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall fromthe masters table. That thought broughtpeace to his soul and gave him the hope thathe needed. A few weeks afterwards he pre-sented himself to the consistory of the churchof which his father was an elder, as a candidatefor admission .to membership
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