. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . THE REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE 478 Copyright, igo2,Louis Klopsch A FILIAL TRIBUTE^ 479 among the flowers, and who hears a summons to more strenuous service. BeforeI start forth anew for my lifes work, I would, with filial emotion, ask a momentfor a tribute of personal affection, as Elisha did of Elijah. Let me, I pray thee,kiss my father .. then I will follow thee. A UNIQUE PERSONALITY My father was the most original and yet the most natural man I ever , in the sense that he always did everything in a way different f
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . THE REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE 478 Copyright, igo2,Louis Klopsch A FILIAL TRIBUTE^ 479 among the flowers, and who hears a summons to more strenuous service. BeforeI start forth anew for my lifes work, I would, with filial emotion, ask a momentfor a tribute of personal affection, as Elisha did of Elijah. Let me, I pray thee,kiss my father .. then I will follow thee. A UNIQUE PERSONALITY My father was the most original and yet the most natural man I ever , in the sense that he always did everything in a way different from anyone else. He wrote differently; he lectured differently; he preached two persons stood before him at the nuptial altar his marriage ceremony wasunique. It was impossible to compare him to any one else. The mould usedfor the formation of his character was a special one. There has never beenmade another like unto it since he lay in his humble cradle in the JEFFERSON PARK CHURCH 48o T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK Yet my father was natural in the sense that he never strove to be originaland different from every one else. It was in his personality that he was differ-ent. He was the same in the home as in the pulpit. On the street as upon thelecture platform. He was the same original and yet natural character whenwriting to one of his children as he was when penning an article for the uttered the message which was given to him as naturally and yet with thedissimilarity that characterizes the notes of the birds of the forest. As the brown-winged thrush lifts his treble note when he is awakened by the rising sun; asa goldfinch chirrups when hopping between the garden rows; as a Baltimoreoriole sings when he swings backward and forward upon the tree branch whichoverhangs the brook, each bird is melodious in its own way, yet each is singing adifferent song. He was so natural that he could not recognize his peculiar d
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