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Title: T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Louis Albert, 1855-1933 Talmage, Frank De Witt
Subjects: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902 Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902 Presbyterian Church Clergy
Publisher: [London : O.W. Binkerd]
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in-washed, crowded anduncomfortable. CHRISTMAS IN BEYROUT Christmas we spent in Beyrout, and I preached in the Scotch Presbyterianchapel of that city. The majority of the audience were Syrians, but they allunderstood English, and a more attentive people I never addressed. The musicwas superb, solos, anthems and congregational singing. I will never forget thekindness of Dr. Bliss, the President of the college and the illustrious educator;nor Dr. Jessup, the renowned missionary, and moderator in 1883 of the GeneralAssembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and a mighty agentfor the transference of the best of Christian literature into Arabic; nor Dr. Post,the surgeon, the botanist, the Christian philosopher and prince of Christianworkers. Wre dined at the hospitable home of Dr. Jessup and became acquaintedwith his lovely and accomplished family. It was an American Christmas dinner.At four oclock we went on the steamer Minerva bound for Constantinople. IN THE HOLY LAND 167
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Fountain of the apostles 168 T. DE WITT TALLAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK The next morning we found ourselves off the island of Cyprus. Soonwe were approaching Patmos, the island of vision, where Domitians prisonerand exile was given to see all the victories and all the woes, and all the horrorsand all the raptures of earth and heaven going by him in a panorama, pleasingand blistered, and blackened and illumined. The evangel John has made thatIsland the most famous of all earthly islands. ON THE ROCK OF PATMOS Patmos is a rock sheer down, a plateau at the top reaching to the footof another rock, that lifts its bare forehead to great height, then a long line ofrock, sinking, rising, growing more defiant or subsiding into valleys in whichthere is no verdure, but only desolation and barrenness are cradled. The islandis a place where an evangelist and other offenders against sinful authority mighteasily be starved. Johns condition suggested, no doubt, much of the imagery ofhis inspired dream. A
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