Show IS 1 A HUMBUG I 1 R AND ND MOST distrusted OF YANKEE PREACHERS the new york sun san of last sunday paid its respects to the kev rev T de witt talmage in an article from which retake we take the following extracts extrac tL fhe the suns compliments coer cover ab about out picc the we are able to t spare lorther lor or them so we choose only a paragraph here and there the most prominent figure in in the american pulpit today is T da dewitt witt talmage no oilier other living man speaks with tongue and pen to so in many any listeners iet enere his great congregation in brooklyn is is but an insignificant c alit fraction ion of his whole audience II 11 is voice is heard weekly in in two c continents montiner I 1 Is and millions are in in the vast throng hat that listens to his words in man many y respects dulmage may be deperi described bed a as s one of the most remark able and moet most puzzling products of modern civilization comparisons with him are impossible lie ile takes rank at once as of a new species of the genins homo if he be but mentioned with the great orators or the giant intellects of the age he lie sinks into an insignificancy that is pitiable and yet for years more men and women have eagerly sought ilia life words than have paid heed head to any public teacher of this or any other genera tion the tits solution of the mystery I 1 ie found in the man himself who if is be what is he and how bow 1 be he attained hie his wonderful popularity truthful ans answers to these questions paint a figure quite unlike any oaler her in the worlds portraiture and one winch which in its it strong cont contracts of strength and weakness nes compels more than passing attention there is nothing of interest in ili dr Ta images career pevious ions to his tits coining to brooklyn twenty one years ago lie ire bad gamed gained a local reputation in philadelphia as a sensational preacher with a wonderful amount of energy the tile church to which he lie came was broken down and almost hopelessly disintegrated he lie put new life into it and drew a croas crofta d almost from tl tb e atari start he ile got the crowd by cry very much the game same methods that the dime dim 0 museum manager uses lie ile realized reali sed that the situation was desperate and he lie adopted desperate m measures e buries lie seems to have delibera tel so reach lame fame by the ladder of notoriety ue ile made himself a pulpit mountebank no clown in the circus ring could have been more ingenious than talmage in in treating his audience to fresh acrobatic surprises of late at 13 years he be has almost abandoned the feits feats of thorn those early days lays iio ile gained bis his object lie got himself if amsel talked about and at once the newspapers were full vt of hie his performances I 1 1 A I 1 I 1 P hijii he ile was ridiculed mercilessly from one end of the land to theother alio other bat but he cared nothing for that ho ions ion as a 1 the delaper apers a about ft him I 1 m it t maje liolla differ Ancle to him whether they were complimentary or otherwise lie ile fliller hie bid church a il he gained a national reputation euch such as aaita it R ins columns might bf be written abent Tal balmages mages pulpit gymnastics in bie his acrobats acro bati batie da dub a but a dingle single incident within the tile recollection jofs of a sun reporter will gire give a fair idea of the tile sort of entertainment he provided for bie bid congregation congre pation one sunday morning when the time a came forbid for bini to deliver hie his sermon be tie walked to the extreme adte 01 one bide side of hingre hia breit ett fifty foot platform m faced about and suddenly started ae no fast fat HS as he lie could jump for the opposite aldo ilia 1 lie coat ta baile Is flew out behind him hie ills long arine brambel theair the air like a windmill b hie is leae lers with trousers above tile tits ankles worked like the tile crank attached to a ate steamers amers walking bear beat jua ai everybody every body breathless expected to see him pitch beader be adir tg brorn from fie the fur thereside ther side of the leaped suddenly into the air anil anti camo wit wilh h a crapa g Y o 0 ling man you are ruebina lowarl a precipice and be he proceeded to eclid r a rat ling vermon upon ilia fisl and of youth in fit a b g city lie ie is face to face aist now with one of the pe Fe verest teats of hia ilia real power and influence which lie iian ha encountered lie ile must raie rai e funds mudd to build a church that he be heartily drenda treads the task ie is show n by his t two W 0 deeper ate late attempt atte nipe a to gain hie his 1 oba bj ct by a bold stroke and thus escape the arar inn details of a house ahouse canvass talmage starred started for 1 the holy lind jut lut ju lu t after lii As church had been burned and when bie his congregation wae was gilli 9 with the moet most problem lal they could have encountered bow to b ii id a n new e w ci chueh u c 1 k w without lt bo money n 0 ne 1 but 3 ut th the e p pastor ai ato r w contented n t en t e d himself 1 f by before hie his departure by resorting to lie the most audacious pla i for raising miney that ever was attempted in fit the name of a 11 congre congregation gatin n farat urstle he aued i a broadcast appeal to christendom to come and help a poor et congregation of only 5 or and with still an impoverished ed pastor to build a church to them somehow christendom tumble over oser in in responding to ilia invitation awn n came Talin ros h liliant coup d betat lie ito sat down at fit I 1 in is desk ow day when the time for or hia 1118 do dei haq a drawing near and arid wrote a gerits sern serne e of pathetic personal onal lelure letters to cerlia cerium hl wealthy citizens of western states lie was careful to pick out the too w lio ho had bg b bank act accounts an I 1 who had bad suffered some amat faulty family borea bereavement rea it mal in no dif fronce rence whether they w ri personally knovs n to him that a as not to tie lie doctors burp ye re to each of lot three men of burp I 1 lard aal 1 grief rief stricken hearts talmage made this cool proposition send me in cash to rebuild the taber a ie je and ill bhrim ten the new building build nt AS Is a it 11 of your dead eon son or daughter or wife as the case may be the manner of of bis his sermons for newspaper publication IR is tin interesting ici ess tue the original copy is is supplied Buni liel ab ut two week in in advance in fact all of dr tal 1 magee mages sunday morning sermons must be composed com aeed or eighteen dab days before they are delivered ite lie take the brou trou trundle ole even to write A rite the original manu lie dictate to a stenographer or and rarey nn con burned more than an hour ia in the tile copy is sent seat to the press association idem and anti is is set up twice in two of lyp minion and brevier brever more store than stereotype plates are nia ie to and bent sent by express to new a a efrom fromM maine alne to california any anyon one euty city or town these thesa plater plates it being a pa ila t of the bargi barga it that each paper ashal have ue ae of the bermon in a certain fid fiel ie i nothing which the aso astoria I 1 a tion 1100 sells ie is in such demand ai la I 1 mages sermons aud and it follows that they bring the beet prue the art ima pae pays dr I 1 lal alaia aae ae about for each ermon T 0 dollars from each of the new eje papers a which hecei ve the plates lates m would be e a low rae rate so that there ri maina a big margia in argin lor for profit even at tr the ex ense of end find ie pro aided tor in fact there is fortuch for such substantial ga gans abote ins his present receipts that it is is a the tile acquisitive does cot not run hie his own sermon distributing bureau perhaps lie will do it before a he lie gets through it is alit the enterprising agents of the tile newest patent me alicine n a or the latest brand of soap hae have not attempted to make a dicker wih wi h talmage they could w veil ell afford to pay him a fabulous pr ie ca to ring fit in a quiet little allusion lueion al to their particular line of roods goods in in the course of t a a biking ala oba p iut aut ina iu a sermon it should be said to the honor of the popular tabernacle pa tor atiat tie lie hals not yet been known coald this ac se to his manifold methods of money getting talmagde Tal magee mages trip to the tile holy land id which has attracted attention to him all over america and on account of the inet holli a k fully amplo ed ad to advertise his ills r movements nove ments was wits made for purpose of collecting material fyr fr use in w writing if alie le lite life of christ upon which he lie is at work ork talmage ekpo expo expects acts by means of this book to lift hint himself solf from notoriety into fame farne abat his book will be eagerly read and that it mil ill be a financial success the clever adv adverts erds ing methods already used make c certain ertain the trip to palestine is sai eaid d to have been suggested by the publishers a 0 of f the tile work who paid all the tile ex lesof of the tour 0 o doubt the outlay lit ilem ay will prove a wise investment before be he left america talmage Talio ago prepared ed a series of sermons one for each sunday n d ay during durin hie bid absence a b nee wn alich it 1 1 b be e arran arranged ged xa should uld be bel s bent e at oui out to 60 00 0 n newspapers e w shapers front week to week ad u shou should id be printed as having lisen delivered in the most prominent spot near which his itinerary indicated he be should be on the repp clive sundays of f his journey J bourney furthermore it was arranga arran arranged gd that the papers should print thet e sermons sermon 6 under da date te of tl tha is various places where they were supposed to be ile delivered and that they supid a should otil d appear as cabled report 4 here then is presented an astonishing spectacle 1 A minim minster ter of the gospel foremost in in the tile pulpit of ins ilia country in ili the tile opinion of many luany becomes a party to a fraud and an imposition lian the public I 1 I 1 here lore is a sar sample of th the u form in in iii advance sermons appeared iu in american newe o 0 papers TALMAGE TA LUUl IN LONDON TUB BROOKLYN divina 11 TO AN 11 INQ 10 ON ilia 1111 AY TO AMERICA A ON FAITH DRAWN ROM TH K i I 1 cable to the tile morning journal what mor hideously impious thing could there be than this going on a to the tile land which the tile affet of christ himself had trod a prea preacher cherot of his ilis go gospel deliberately plots a Do ie edless deception upon thou tandi they were less pr profane olane who rill fled the cross crops luelf for fur they be ile ildved not into jerusalem and t the ie fratia prence 0 el ace of cal calvary vary it relf aia w the tile irasid carried hundreds hundred of f n pera proclaimed the news axin t the he ata ca cable Is 1 led i brought that talmage preached today to day tiny the tile follows following ng sermon on mars hill 11 T there here was groat great provocation to tor r the legons ous remark rf of ft a brooklyn man when he ila atad the bea dAnes in ili a morn morning ing paper 44 what a lucky thing it was for or paul that he got there first III 1 t ok w I 1 1 1 11 t W T the I 1 i f S sun u n I 1 liae t a a Tal 1 maitee g e I 1 a own 0 w ing hit adais syndicated edin teion lon alai that t ariti the 1 i e s etory t 0 r Y 11 newill lil which b wi e 11 h about bout hie him dell newspapers Irin printed ted a delivery of a dellvera sermon verr 1 in ow je Is a alwo mol lately af at d a frand on the reader readers bahna tain railed froni front liver liverpool go on aa biml ord and on monday to fol lowin twing A aioo 00 ameci can cart newe printed pd ed to be a cable det despatch from 1 dl qui which said will e a ene t ne lie ete amrin r in which hi he rev dr fAl mave left livera liverpool lol y tile berday ISM wai waiting some o 0 few hours t fir I 1 llie lie mails of the acore with him bull 1 hi he took went occasion to deliver the tile following a 1 dt dr tal ao 10 age whan when closely tinel by a sun ir porter on the day qu daei of hie his arrival horne home baid asid that none oft 0 tl paes pao engere ra left the steamer at lose 4 town and that he delivered a no ee r mon there were brief religious services nerv icee hoard board the tile t amer at aich he arnado on few remark marki a re i but it ia ii cot not the first lime time hit that tal conff ccoce have brov provoked when annd lor 0 llie ills sermons by the outside press first sprang up it was hie his custom to a nd advance copies and to folio low them with will a few worde words of intro diction d by telegraph on courdy Surd ly this th w pr lecas v as at least honest it etca caused two d a good deal of complaint however hovi ever from strict 1 who argued that the sunday we nee of the 11 telegraph wro yong nand and that a min biter wi was art lend himself to any arrangement which involved sabbath breaking probably the greater liberalism of to day would see less fees to arlt criticism criticise critic wao ise ia in enci a plan there were interesting tnt features of balmages Tal mages visit to the holy ladd which have not been publicly considered in ili their full significance la in the letters which be and bin secretary have written and in the public inter kiewe credited to 0 o him are eram character tei itic i tic of the m man a n w which li ie b w when li en 1 held i el d u up to t close t F ec cr t atia y tn may a y b be 0 vi viewed e e d with w pit h d em emoi ii j by devout people II 11 a own deperio on of 0 the time he a pentin palestino indicates indic atee that f from TO in hie tile time tim lie ito owed owe eute d tile facret land he left it he be was as torn by ps pr r byams 0 of emoni n which perhaps per ha wade made him not wholly hotly responsible lr r ie i e e lie bays himself that before wore I 1 reached bethlehem Keth lehem anil I 1 could not bleed bleep ua I 1 was as excited as a w 11 due allow allowance ance must be ma ie to for a it mau man in in mui a condition and be ila must mutt not be judged too harshly for a display of devout zeal aa which ie a but natural anler ID ler the tile circumstances the ficat extra ordin ry exploit of which we have authentic record utter after talmage reached the tha holy land was w his attempt to buy iry try for or spot ash h the sadden sudden In inspire spira tion which li seized the tabernacle preacher a as lie stood studying the th probable scene of tile crucifixion hi his secretary wrote ft rote to the E lagle agle As lie commence coni com mente cupin I 1 the cimpl and graphic et at ry he b bame posse eed of an idea aih mach cli prompted him to slee speedily dily cmunt hie his dorisey and ride tack lak to 0 jerusalem ilia ae to if if an sible the piece ol 01 grou groube d an ng both I 1 the be seen of the ci and arid the burial of jeee to lathis this suba euh ct lie devoted the remainder roma inder of the ilia afternoon making con effort to accomplish it b bt A failing fall in to do eo go part of the land I 1 ii used as a burial ground and the vaetor dm tor dieco wred that no amount am luntoo or monay could Ivro ulde the imol nil to part kith with the land where lie heir beir dead btag he lie succeeded in his plan to buy calaf calvary an i 1 the tomb ot of jesus he be would mould have try ar made over the property ai soon wn 11 acquired ired to the tile christian church at large lie ile failed to buy calvary but be ew leaded in pur purloining purloin laining ine a red reddish dialL i r ri c jhb h be lie rolle I 1 down the hill I 1 loaded ill led upon a cand camel can d and brought I 1 I 1 home iome t inke ice the corner curner atone tone ol 01 hiji his new church lie tame came eventually to toabe the river jorjan tia spot what beof it Is written then cometh jecius from galilee to jordaan uddo to tn of h him I 1 m but jolla forbade him I 1 bare |