. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . e constantly meeting. In this way our acquaintance began, which grew into friendship and remained always unbroken. EARLY HINTS OF FAME Dr. Talmage attracted unusual attention from his firstentrance to the Seminary. His fame as an original andbeautiful writer, and as a signal and forceful speakerwhile in the New York University, had preceded was in constant demand at various meetings con-nected with the local and suburban churches. The sameexuberant imagination was then in full play; indeed, itwas at that time more tropical
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . e constantly meeting. In this way our acquaintance began, which grew into friendship and remained always unbroken. EARLY HINTS OF FAME Dr. Talmage attracted unusual attention from his firstentrance to the Seminary. His fame as an original andbeautiful writer, and as a signal and forceful speakerwhile in the New York University, had preceded was in constant demand at various meetings con-nected with the local and suburban churches. The sameexuberant imagination was then in full play; indeed, itwas at that time more tropical than in after years. Heseized and held his audience from the start to the finishof his addresses. I recall how the people listened with open-mouthed wonder at his strange,and often grotesque, descriptions; and how they were unable to repress theirhearty laughter at his wit, or their tears whenever he introduced pathos. Itwas a common remark: Here is a prodigy! But whether he was to be forgood or for evil was, with many, a serious question. His prayers were as. REV. J. HOWARD SUYDAM, Rev. Dr. Suydam was the clergyman who officiated at Dr. Tahnages funeral in Greenwood Cemetery. He wasa lifelong and much valued friend of the deceased. 384 RECOLLECTIONS OF TALMAGE 385 unique as he was peculiar in other respects; they consisted entirely of a har-monious collocation of Scripture passages. FAMILIAR. WITH THE BIBLE I never knew one more familiar with the English Bible than was Dr. Tal-mage. He was nourished on it at home, which accounts for the selection ofso many novel texts from the Old Testament from which, by his matchlessskill, he produced such impressive discourses. In the lecture room, too, his idiosyncrasies were in constant evidence. Itwas the practice for the students to prepare analyses of sermons for the criti-cism of the presiding professor and his classmates. Dr. Talmage once analyzedthe passage in the book of Proverbs: Whoso findeth a wife findeth a goodthing, and
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