. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . h it be with broken utter-ance, and in terms which may seem too strong for those who never had an oppor-tunity of gathering the fruit of this luxuriant almond-tree. RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS FATHER, In my fathers old age was to be seen the beauty of a cheerful spirit. Inever remember to have heard him make a gloomy expression. This was notbecause he had no perception of the pollutions of society. He abhorred any-thing like impurity, or fraud, or double-dealing. He never failed to lift up hisvoice against sin, when he saw it. Pie was t
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . h it be with broken utter-ance, and in terms which may seem too strong for those who never had an oppor-tunity of gathering the fruit of this luxuriant almond-tree. RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS FATHER, In my fathers old age was to be seen the beauty of a cheerful spirit. Inever remember to have heard him make a gloomy expression. This was notbecause he had no perception of the pollutions of society. He abhorred any-thing like impurity, or fraud, or double-dealing. He never failed to lift up hisvoice against sin, when he saw it. Pie was terrible in his indignation againstwrong, and had an iron grip for the throat of him who trampled on the help-less. Better meet a lion robbed of her whelps than him, if you had been stealingthe bread from the mouth of the fatherless. It required all the placidity of mymothers voice to calm him when once the mountain storm of his righteous wrathwas in full blast; while as for himself, he would submit to more impositions,and say nothing, than any man I ever T. DE WITT TALMAG3 AT 25From a Photograph Hitherto Unpublished DR. TALMAGES ANCESTRY 25 But, while sensitive to the evils of society, he felt confident that all wouldbe righted. When he prayed, you could hear in the very tones of his voice theexpectation that Christ Jesus would utterly demolish all iniquity, and fill theearth with his glory. This Christian man was not a misanthrope, did not thinkthat everything was going to ruin, considered the world a very good place tolive in. He never sat moping or despondent, but took things as they were,knowing that God could and would make them better. When the heaviest surgeof calamity came upon him, he met it with as cheerful a countenance as evera bather at the beach met the incoming Atlantic, rising up on the other side ofthe wave stronger than when it smote him. THE OLD CHEERFUL TIMES Without ever being charged with frivolity, he sang and whistled andlaughed. He knew about all
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