. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . an Herald was represented by its proprietor, the entireeditorial staff and a large number of employees, and there was also a delegationfrom the Bowery Mission. When the funeral party had arrived, the casket was carried into theenclosure. It bore on a silver plate the simple inscription : THOMAS DEWITT TALMAGEJanuary 7, 1832. April 12, 1902. The Rev. Dr. Howard Suydam, of Rhincbeck, N. Y., a friend and formerclassmate of the dead pastor, and who had been one of the principal speakers atthe obsequies in Washington, delivered a brie
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . an Herald was represented by its proprietor, the entireeditorial staff and a large number of employees, and there was also a delegationfrom the Bowery Mission. When the funeral party had arrived, the casket was carried into theenclosure. It bore on a silver plate the simple inscription : THOMAS DEWITT TALMAGEJanuary 7, 1832. April 12, 1902. The Rev. Dr. Howard Suydam, of Rhincbeck, N. Y., a friend and formerclassmate of the dead pastor, and who had been one of the principal speakers atthe obsequies in Washington, delivered a brief address. He said: REV. DR. SUYDAMS ADDRESS Friends, we are gathered here to place in the ground all that could die ofthe Rev. Dr. Thomas DeWitt Talmage. The Christian world laments his depart-ure. From the rural home of his boyhood in New Jersey, from the successivechurches he served, from the continents across the ocean, and from the islands ofthe sea there come the sounds of mourning because Dr. DeWitt Talmage is nomore. The world seems lonely without PLACING THE CASKET IN TOSITION Copyright, igo2,Louis Klopsch THE LAST OF EARTH 359 He was a mighty power for good. By voice and pen he reached more indi-viduals than any other man that ever lived in his generation. By forty-six yearsof preaching, and for the most part to crowded audiences, and by his publishedsermons, weekly read by many millions of people, he impressed the minds, affectedthe hearts, and influenced the lives of his great constituency in the way of up-lift,of consolation, and spiritual salvation. BROUGHT MULTITUDES TO CHRIST What thousands were brought into the kingdom through his instrumen-tality ! How many bleeding hearts have been soothed and bound up by the appli-cation of Gods word through his matchless skill! And how many men and womenwalk the earth to-day clothed and in their right minds, whom his words inducedto a pathway of reform! The instrument through whom God produced thispower is removed, th
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