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- BIO:Thomas Dewitt Talmage 1832-1902 American Presbyterian minister.
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- Thomas Dewitt Talmage was a lawyer before his conversion. Upon entering
- the ministry, he served three Reformed churches in New Jersey, New
- York, and Pennsylvania, and also two Presbyterian churches in New York
- and Washington, D.C. After serving as a chaplain in the Union Army
- during the Civil War, he built a tabernacle in Brooklyn in 1870. It was
- burned by vandals in 1872. It was rebuilt but burned again in 1889, and
- again in 1894. Talmage served as pastor of the First Presbyterian
- Church in Washington, D.C., from 1895 until 1899. His sermons were
- printed in 3,500 newspapers each Sunday across America and Europe. He
- also edited The Christian Herald and authored more than 500 sermons,
- which were published as a complete set. Preaching without the aid of
- notes, his oratorical powers were compared to those of George
- Whitefield, and his poetic expression to that of Shakespeare and
- Milton. Over 30,000 people received the Lord Jesus Christ as personal
- Sa- viour during Talmage's ministry as pastor.
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