Show BOOK CLOSED CLOSED- ON LIFE OF DR fI WASHINGTON WASHINGTON April Apri 14 The The Rev Hev Dr T. T DeWitt Talmage th the noted Presbyterian clergyman lecturer lecturer and writer died Saturday night at his home in this city Th The immediate cause of death was inflammation of ot I Ithe the brain He had been iii about six weeks The funeral will take tale place at 4 p.m. p.m. p.m. p. p m. m Tuesday from the Church of the Covenant The services will be bevery bevery bevery very simple There will be no funeral sermon ermo 1 but shott short addresses concern concern- concernIng Ing log the tho life Ute and works or Dr Talmage will Wll be made I Dr Ir Teunis S So Han ilin the pastor of ot the church and d Dr Thomas Thoas Chalmers Easton of ot the the Ea Eastern Presbyterian rl n church of Washington will both assist in the services Dr Samuel Samue J. J Nl of pf St. St Louls Louis a lI lifelong elon friend will make an address and Dr E. E P. P Ter- Ter vine of New Jersey Dr Howard Suydam Suydam Suydam Suy- Suy dam of R N. N H. H and Dr James Demarest of Brooklyn all school friends of ot the deceased have been asked to assist At 9 0 o'clock Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day morning the Interment will take tip S ST. T. T DeWitt Talmage place In the family lot at Greenwood cemetery Brooklyn Messages of ot sympathy from nearly every State In the Union and from England Russia and other European 1 countries came canoe to the famIly the day i Career of Talmage I Thomas DeWitt Talmage wa wain wl in Bound Brook N. N J. J Januar January In his youth he studied law b bt bIJ gave it up for the ministry tended the University of Ne New but was not graduated Later fi h fi at New Brunswick The Thea seminary and in 1856 he was waa 6 pastor of the Reformed cl cHi chu u Belleville N. N J. J He had ch churches In Syracuse N. N Y f fr ri rito to 1862 and In Philadelphia fr to 1859 He was chaplain of ot a P vanla vania regiment during the CivilIn Civil CivilIn In 1869 he was made pastor pastor c Presbyterian church 1870 the Brooklyn erected for him by his His sern sermons ons were published w we wh twenty-nine twenty years In nearly t th hl hundred religious r and In inthe the United States and Euro were translated into various Ian reaching it is estimated thin lions people weekly I jj In 1894 he removed to Wash Wasl He has edited The Christian Christiana J Advance Frank Leslie's Sunda azine and at the time of ot his d de z editor of the Christian Her Heral l was the author of a number Qt f |