Talmage, Thomas De Witt. Live Coals; From the Discourses of T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. Collated by Lydia E. White, Compilation Authorized by Dr. Talmage. Illustrated. Chicago: Fairbanks & Palmer, 1887. [8601]
Russet cloth decorated in black & gilt, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches, slight edge-wear, brown floral end papers. Portrait, 678 clean pp., illustrations, tight. The closed foredge has a stain at the bottom but it does not affect the pages inside. Very good. Hardcover.
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.