. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ountry party theirmother told them of her desire andsaid, Go and have a good time;but while you are gone I want youto know I am praying for you, andwill do nothing but pray for youuntil you get back. They went off to the gay entertainment. They did notenjoy it much because they thought all the time of the fact that their motherwas praying for them. The evening passed. The children returned. Thenext day my grandparents heard sobbing and crying in their daughters room,and they went in and found her praying for the salvation of God,
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ountry party theirmother told them of her desire andsaid, Go and have a good time;but while you are gone I want youto know I am praying for you, andwill do nothing but pray for youuntil you get back. They went off to the gay entertainment. They did notenjoy it much because they thought all the time of the fact that their motherwas praying for them. The evening passed. The children returned. Thenext day my grandparents heard sobbing and crying in their daughters room,and they went in and found her praying for the salvation of God, and she said ; I wish you would go to the barn and to the wagon house, for Jehiel andDavid (her brothers) are under conviction of sin. My grandparents went tothe barn, and Jehiel, who afterward became a useful minister of the Gospel,was imploring the mercy of God, and then having first knelt with him and com-mended his soul to Christ, they went to the wagon house, and there was Davidcrying for the salvation of his soul—David, who afterward became my JOHN VAN NEST TALMAGE DR. TALMAGES ANCESTRY 21 The whole family was swept into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Davidcould not keep the story to himself, and he crossed the fields to a farmhouseand told one to whom he had been affianced the story of his own salvation, andshe yielded her heart to God. It was David and Catharine, and they stood upin the village church together a few weeks after—for the story of the convertedhousehold went all through the neighborhood. In a few weeks two hundredsouls stood up in the plain meeting-house at Somerville to profess faith in Christ,among them David and Catharine, afterward my parents. A MINISTERING ANGEL Dr. Talmages aunt Phoebe, to whom he refers in the above incident, alwaysoccupied a tender and reverent place in his memory. In one of his sermons hepaid the following eloquent tribute to her character: The patron saint of almost every family circle is some unmarried woman,and amon
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