Trumpet Blasts or Mountain-Top Views of Life comprising The Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similes, Fearles Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that during His Whole Phenomenal Career Have Been Given to the World
Published by Edgewood Publishing Company (1892), (Philadelphia), 1892
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Teal blue cloth with gilt titles & designs, somewhat soiled and edge-worn, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Talmage, title page printed in black & red, many b/w plates and text illustrations, with 5 plates in colors. "Carefully Compiled and Edited, by Rev. J. Ward Gamble and Prof. Charles Morris. Beautifully and Profusely Illustrated." Date taken from the copyright. The publisher was in business from about 1885 to 1902, and sold books by subscription.After a biography of Talmage the selections promote holiness and attack vice, with such chapters as The Problem of Life; Evolution; Sins Advanced Guards; National Evils [Divorce, Polygamy, Libertinism]; The Burden of Debt; Sacred Song; The Lesson of the Pyramid; Traps for Men; The Object of Life; Cure for Sick Souls; Prayers for Garfield Answered; and The Burdens of Life.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. …
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- Trumpet Blasts or Mountain-Top Views of Life comprising The Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similes, Fearles Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that during His Whole Phenomenal Career Have Been Given to the World
- Author
- Talmage, T. DeWitt; Conwell, Russel H. [Introduction]
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- Edgewood Publishing Company (1892), (Philadelphia)
- Publication year
- 1892
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- Good
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- Hardcover
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Haaswurth Books
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