. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . The wonderful development of the news-paper press in the latter half of the nine-teenth century furnished an opportunity. i8 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK for such a man as Thomas DeWitt Talmage. A man of his special talentwas pre-eminently needed. The faith of many was growing cold; vast andever-increasing numbers of men were neglecting the church; the opportunitiesof making huge fortunes were engrossing their attention; and the newspaperwas rapidly becoming the only Bible that the multitude read. With astrange fatality,
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . The wonderful development of the news-paper press in the latter half of the nine-teenth century furnished an opportunity. i8 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK for such a man as Thomas DeWitt Talmage. A man of his special talentwas pre-eminently needed. The faith of many was growing cold; vast andever-increasing numbers of men were neglecting the church; the opportunitiesof making huge fortunes were engrossing their attention; and the newspaperwas rapidly becoming the only Bible that the multitude read. With astrange fatality, there was increasing on the other hand, a tendency in thepulpit to use a theological dialect, that might be called a religious slang—a vocabulary of terms that were not in ordinary use in the market, the courtand the street; so that the plain business man, not being a theological expert,failed to understand the sermons he heard. Not a few stayed away from
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