. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ay, but, thank God, we have in their place Hon. Patrick this platform we have a member of another branch of the National Legis-lature, but whether he is on the way to gubernatorial or presidential chair I THE SILVER JUBILEE 243 know not; but this I do know, he is our joy and our pride—Hon. Joseph C. Hen-drix. But the Committee of Reception does full honor to my own profession;and so they invited for this platform a minister of the Gospel, who, afterrousing the cities of the West with his superb work, now stands in New Yo
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ay, but, thank God, we have in their place Hon. Patrick this platform we have a member of another branch of the National Legis-lature, but whether he is on the way to gubernatorial or presidential chair I THE SILVER JUBILEE 243 know not; but this I do know, he is our joy and our pride—Hon. Joseph C. Hen-drix. But the Committee of Reception does full honor to my own profession;and so they invited for this platform a minister of the Gospel, who, afterrousing the cities of the West with his superb work, now stands in New York,Sabbath by Sabbath, telling the sweetest story that was ever told, as he onlycan tell it—Dr. Charles L. Thompson. Boston also must be heard from, andBoston is here in the pastor of the most historical pulpit in this city, the ParkCongregational—my friend of many years, the Rev. Dr. Lansing. And thereis here Murat Halstead, our great editor, and one of the grandest acquisitionsBrooklyn has ever had. Oh, I forgot that this meeting somewhat refers to my-. FIRST BROOKLYN TABERNACLE self, and that makes me feel a little weaker than I ever felt before. A hundredthousand thanks. I suppose I may as well make it a million. Dr. George W. Bethune, once a great preacher on Brooklyn Heights,was stopping over night at a Pennsylvania farmhouse. In the morning theDoctor sat at the breakfast table alone, for the good housewife felt that was thebest way to honor him, and when the buckwheat cakes were put upon hisplate, the good woman stood by him with the molasses cup to pour the sweet-ness on his cakes, and she said to him, How will you take this molasses onthese cakes? Will you take it crinkle-crankle or all in a puddle? To-nightto me the sweetness has come in the latter way—all in a puddle. This is the supreme hour of my life. Many emotions stir my soul, butneither the Brooklyn city reception last night nor the national and international 244 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK r
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