. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . Tin-! GLADSTONE FAMILY IN THE GROUNDS OF IIA\YARDF,N LATER SOJOURNS IN EUROPE 295 upon my table in the hotel ten different books of mine, all in Swedish, and thatprepared me for the greeting I received in The Immanuel Church at elevenoclock Sabbath morning. All must be done through an interpreter. I askedhim before entering the pulpit if he would translate sentence by sentence orwould take each idea after it was uttered. He preferred sentence by sentence,and so it was done. Only three times had I ever attempted to address an. THE
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . Tin-! GLADSTONE FAMILY IN THE GROUNDS OF IIA\YARDF,N LATER SOJOURNS IN EUROPE 295 upon my table in the hotel ten different books of mine, all in Swedish, and thatprepared me for the greeting I received in The Immanuel Church at elevenoclock Sabbath morning. All must be done through an interpreter. I askedhim before entering the pulpit if he would translate sentence by sentence orwould take each idea after it was uttered. He preferred sentence by sentence,and so it was done. Only three times had I ever attempted to address an. THE HEIR APPARENT OF DENMARK AND HIS WIFE 296 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK audience through the brain and lips of another; once when a theological student,standing before a congregation of American Indians; once in a church atHawaii, and once in Ceylon, an interpreter standing on the right of me totranslate what I said into Cingalese, and the other on my left side to translateinto Hindustani, my interpreters taking two-thirds of the time, while 1 tookone-third. In the Stockholm church—an immense church with galleries onthree sides—the pastor had first to request two very deaf people who, with ear-trumpets, sat in the pulpit, to remove, as otherwise there would not be roomfor the preacher of the day, and his interpreter. The hymns were given out,the Scriptures were read and prayer was offered by the Swedish interpreter. A SYMPATHETIC AUDIENCE The sevice was not embarrassing; the audience were very sympathetic;the translator was alert and fluent, and the people seemed to u
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