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Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of "How to Speak in
Public," Etc.
With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other
Theologians
Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University
1908
TALMAGE (1832-1901).
A Bloody Monster
SPURGEON (1834-1892).
Songs in the Night
POTTER (1834-1908)
Memorial Discourse on Phillips Brooks
ABBOTT (Born in 1835).
The Divinity in Humanity
BROOKS (1835-1893).
The Pride of Life
GLADDEST (Born in 1836).
The Prince of Life
CLIFFORD (Born in 1836).
The Forgiveness of Sins
MOODY (1837-1899).
What Think Ye of Christ?
FOWLER (1837-1908).
The Spirit of Christ
WHYTE (Born in 1837).
Experience
WATKINSON (Born in 1838).
The Transfigured Sackcloth
LORIMER (1838-1904).
The Fall of Satan
LITTLE (Born in 1839).
Thirst Satisfied
Thomas De Witt Talmage was born at Bound Brook, N.J., in 1832. Formany years he preached to large and enthusiastic congregations at theBrooklyn Tabernacle. At one time six hundred newspapers regularlyprinted his sermons. He was a man of great vitality, optimistic bynature, and particularly popular with young people. His voicewas rather high and unmusical, but his distinct enunciation andearnestness of manner gave a peculiar attraction to his pulpitoratory. His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness andsensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of peoplespellbound as in the presence of a master. He died in 1901.
1832—1901
[Footnote 1: Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch, and reprinted bypermission.]
It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him.—Gen. xxxvii.,33.
Joseph's brethren dipt their brother's coat in goat's blood, and thenbrought the dabbled garment to their father, cheating him with theidea that a ferocious animal had slain him, and thus hiding theirinfamous behavior. But there is no deception about that which we holdup to your observation to-day. A monster such as never ranged Africanthicket or Hindustan jungle hath tracked this land, and with bloodymaw hath strewn the continent with the mangled carcasses of wholegenerations; and there are tens of thousands of fathers and motherswho could hold up the garment of their slain boy, truthfullyexclaiming, "It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him."There has, in all ages and climes, been a tendency to the improper useof stimulants. Noah took to strong drink. By this vice