Show DE WIT halmage DEAD well known 1 divine aay after illness reverend dewitt talmage the noted presbyterian clergyman died at 9 saturday batur day n at bis resi dencel wah agton mr talmage had been ill for ahe past six weeks suffering from influenza and serious camarri at troubles chomas dewite talmage was born in bound book N J january 7 1839 in 1 is youth he stud ed law but soon gave it up for tie mm stry he attended the university but was not graduated later he graduated at new brunswick tl sem nary and in he was orda ned pastor of the deformed Pe formed church in belleville N J he had charge of churches in syracuse N Y from 1859 to and in philadelphia from 1860 to 1869 lie was chaplain of a Pennsyl vaa a regiment durings the civil war in 1869 he was made pastor of the central presbyterian church brooklyn in 1870 tl e brool lyn tabernacle was erected for him by h s congregation H s sermons were published weekly for twenty n ne years in nearly thirty BIZ hundred rel gio is and secular jour nals in tl e united slate and europe and were translated into various languages reach ng it is estimated thirty million people weekly in 1894 1 e removed to washington has ed ted the christian at work advance frank leslie s sunday magazine and at tl e time of h s death was editor of the christian herald lie was the author of a number of works |