. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ITK WAS WISE AS WELL AS ELOQUENT—HIS VIEWS ON PERSONAL INFLUENCE, DRESS,DEBT, AN AIM IN LIFE, BORROWING TROUBLE, BUSINESS METHODS, PARENTALDUTIES AND KINDRED TOPICS moremake N the realm of social philosophy, the platform andpulpit utterances of Dr. Talmage, no less than his lit-erary work, must be accorded a place by no meansinconspicuous. He was a maximist as well as moral-ist and many of his expressions have become familiarthroughout the land. It was a peculiarity of hisunique genius that he touched no subject that he didnot il
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ITK WAS WISE AS WELL AS ELOQUENT—HIS VIEWS ON PERSONAL INFLUENCE, DRESS,DEBT, AN AIM IN LIFE, BORROWING TROUBLE, BUSINESS METHODS, PARENTALDUTIES AND KINDRED TOPICS moremake N the realm of social philosophy, the platform andpulpit utterances of Dr. Talmage, no less than his lit-erary work, must be accorded a place by no meansinconspicuous. He was a maximist as well as moral-ist and many of his expressions have become familiarthroughout the land. It was a peculiarity of hisunique genius that he touched no subject that he didnot illuminate. If he walked across a pasture field,the daisies and buttercups and grasses instantly be-came alive and nodded to him in a language whichhe could readily interpret; in the woods, the trees toldhim their secrets, and the birds chirruped, and thebrooks whispered in a way he could understand. So,in the social affairs of every-day life, he seemed to see deeply and to perceive more accurately than others the influences that for human misery or ft^wfe A CHAIN OF INFLUENCE All people between thirty and forty years of age (he wrote) ; yes, betweenforty and fifty; aye, between fifty and sixty, and all septuagenarians, need asurrounding conjunction of good influences. In Sing Sing, Auburn, Moyamen-sing, and all the other great prisons, are men and women who went wrong inmid-life and old age. We need around us a cordon of good influences. Weforget to apply the well-known rule that a chain is no stronger than its weakestlink. If the chain be made of a thousand links, and nine hundred and ninety-nine are strong, but one is weak, the chain will be in danger of breaking atthat one weak link. We may be strong in a thousand excellencies, and vethave one weakness that endangers us. This is the reason that we see menaround us, distinguished for a whole round of virtues, collapse and go down. 99 100 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK The weak link, in the otherwise stout
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