Talmage, T. DeWitt; Adams, Charles Francis. The Life and Sermons of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Co., 1902. First Edition. [10217]
Gold cloth decorated in gilt & black, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, the binding is clean and very good. Private bookplate and gift inscription, both dated 1903. 192 clean pp., several illustrations, inscription on rear fly page from the 1903 owner, "I read this book in Jan. 1904. I found it to be a very fine book." Very good. Hardcover.
The first 50 pages are the biography, with the remainder being his sermons.
Thomas DeWitt Talmage (1832-1901), born in New Jersey, died at Washington, D. C. "He studied at the University of the City of New York (special diploma, 1853), and was graduated from the Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., 1856. He was pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Belleville, N. J., 1856-59; at Syracuse, N. Y., 1859-62; of the Second Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 1862-69; Central Presbyterian Church, Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1869-70." New Schaff-Herzog.
Rev. Talmage continued to preach in New York city at various locations until 1895, when he became associate pastor with Dr. Byron Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. In 1899 he retired "from all active pastoral work, continuing the issue of his sermons in the weekly journals; indeed, his sermons were widely published in American and Europe, weekly, for thirty years." ibid. Talmage edited several weekly newspapers and journals his sermons and other books fill up several shelves. He was a popular author and crusader against social evils.
