Jesus Coming into His Garden
Devotional pieces offering Christian hope in suffering (Romans 15:13), pastoral counsel on marriage, and comforting reflections on death and the children's heaven.
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Archives
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Jesus Coming into His Garden
The Cradle-Song
Sermons and family devotions: Gordon urges a steadfast Christian race (Heb.12) and warns from Lot's loss (Gen.19). T. De Witt Talmage urges mothers to teach Jesus by cradle-songs.
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Parental Anxiety and Its Alleviation
Two sermons: 'Prayer Answered' reflects on Elijah at Carmel and God's faithfulness in answering prayer. 'Parental Anxiety and Its Alleviation' explores parents' fears and urges balanced discipline.
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Behold the American!
T. DeWitt Talmage's lively dinner speech praises the Pilgrim forefathers, Puritan virtues, national unity and piety, celebrating American identity and the soldiers' homecoming.
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Pen, Pulpit and Platform: Shots at Sundry Targets
T. DeWitt Talmage urges the Church to take deliberate, focused aim in preaching and Christian life—targeting soul‑saving, correcting errors, easing burdens, and winning victories.
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Live Coals
A collected volume of T. DeWitt Talmage's sermons urging Christian piety, church reform and defense of orthodoxy—attacking evolution, urging Sabbath observance and vital worship.
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The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital
T. DeWitt Talmage's 1886 sermon on the labor vs. capital struggle warns against anarchic revolt, urges the Church to mediate, and calls for cooperation, industry, and mutual dependence.
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New Tabernacle Sermons
Talmage's "Brawn and Muscle" uses Samson to warn that physical strength without moral power leads to ruin, urging robust Christians to serve God and resist societal vice.
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Our Seaside Cottage
Selections from The Brooklyn Magazine (Sept 1886): a melancholic portrait of poet John G. Saxe’s decline, essays on East Hampton seaside life and Puritan civic virtues, plus miscellany.
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Choosing the Real God
1886 Brooklyn Magazine features a profile of poet John G. Saxe in decline and two sermons by T. De Witt Talmage on judging others (Matt. 7) and choosing God’s way (Ruth 1).
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The Midnight Revel
Magazine issue features a portrait of poet John G. Saxe and authorized out-of-town sermons by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, including moral exhortations urging repentance and judgment.
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The Bible: The King of Books
Profile of poet John G. Saxe and two sermons by T. DeWitt Talmage: one urging mercy (Matt. 7) and one defending the Bible's authenticity via archaeological evidence (Ps. 19).
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Measured by Your Own Yardstick
1886 Brooklyn Magazine: portrait of poet John G. Saxe and Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage's sermon "Measured by Your Own Yardstick" (matthew 7:2) urging mercy and charitable judgment.
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Religion in Summer
1886 magazine: a travel sketch of Elsinore/Kronborg and T. De Witt Talmage's sermons ('An Island Vision' on Patmos/Revelation; 'Religion in Summer') urging steady Christian devotion.
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An Island Vision
Travel sketch of Elsinore and Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage's sermon 'An Island Vision' reflecting on Revelation's pearly gates, the resurrection body, and Christian unity across denominations.
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High License; The Monopoly of Abomination
1886 prohibition journal arguing high-license laws are a corrupt compromise that empowers liquor monopolies and undermines temperance reform, law, and family life.
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Wedding Congratulations
Sermon on original sin asserting human depravity from birth and the inward conflict of conscience, with pastoral reflections on marriage, fidelity, and domestic duty.
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The Black Servants of the Sky
Selections from The Brooklyn Magazine (1886): T. De Witt Talmage's sermons on working-class hardships and God's providence — Elijah fed by ravens — plus a piece on 'Crackers'.
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Labor’s Greatest Enemy
1886 Brooklyn Magazine pieces: an ethnographic sketch of “Crackers,” and T. De Witt Talmage sermons on labor hardships and the perils of alcohol, urging sobriety, thrift, and reform.
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Monopoly and Communism
Brooklyn Magazine (1886) excerpts: a portrait of Southern “Crackers” and T. DeWitt Talmage’s sermons on workers’ hardships, monopoly, communism, and social injustice.
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