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Updated: May 10, 2025
There were also Talmage clocks, and Spurgeon clocks, and Storrs clocks, and Brooks clocks, which respectively marked the flight of time by phrases taken from the sermons of these eminent divines, and repeated in precisely the voice and accents of the original delivery. In startling proximity to the religious department I was shown the skeptical clocks.
In peril, he exerted himself to deliver the man; in weakness, in danger of falling, he tried to uphold; suffering oppression, he arose to the defense, fearing no power, but contending earnestly for the right. Teacher Talmage was very gracious in receiving men, whether men of position or the common people. He treated all alike.
It was all very much like the theological guffaw that swept over Christendom when Darwin issued his "Origin of Species," and Talmage and Spurgeon set their congregations in a roar by gently sarcastic references to monkey ancestry. Amid the general popping of theological small-arms, Galileo moved steadily forward. If he had many enemies he surely had a few friends.
That prisoner read it through from the first mistake in Genesis to the last curse in Revelation; read it through as Talmage never did, for there were no distractions, no letters to answer, no morning and evening newspapers, no visitors dropping in.
And, moreover, if they were to be regarded as an integral part of the Church at home, that fact would prove to be a powerful incitement to prayer and liberality on the part of our people. But the rebuff did not dishearten Dr. Talmage. He renewed the appeal the next year, and had the satisfaction of seeing it succeed.
Talmage has told you that the typical American has yet to come. Let me tell you that he has already come. Great types, like valuable plants, are slow to flower and fruit.
John Scudder's, no other single family has been the means of making such a valuable contribution to the sons of Levi in the Dutch Church. "Mr. Talmage was not only exemplary in the ordinary duties of a Christian, but excellent as a church officer.
The third is Sir Isaac Newton against whom we put Charles Darwin. The fourth is Sir Walter Scott against whom we put Byron and Shelley. The fifth is Hugh Miller against whom we put Sir Charles Lyell. The sixth is Edmund Burke against whom we put Thomas Paine, or, if that will not do, Lord Bolingbroke. The seventh is Mr. Gladstone against whom we put John Morley. "Enough! Enough!" says Talmage.
If he has violated his conscience, the scars will remain through life. If he has soiled his reputation, the effect of it can never be washed away. If he shatters his body through indulgence and vice, he must suffer until death. As Talmage says, "The grace of God gives a new heart, but not a new body." "John," said a father to his son, "I wish you would get me the hammer." "Yes, sir."
We find the following allusion to the life and death of his mother, in a sermon by Dr. T. De Witt Talmage: "In these remarks upon maternal faithfulness, I have found myself unconsciously using as a model the character of one, who, last Wednesday, we put away for the resurrection.
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