The New Student's Reference Work/Talmage, Thomas De Witt

[[Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage|Talmage (tal′mắj), Thomas De Witt, ]]American Presbyterian clergyman and lecturer, was born at Bound Brook, N. J., Jan. 7, 1832; was educated at the University of the City of New York; and graduated from the Theological Seminary of New Brunswick, N. J. He was pastor successively of Reformed Dutch churches at Belleville (N. J.), Syracuse (N. Y.) and Philadelphia (Pa.), and from 1869 to 1874 he was in charge of Central Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, N, Y. In 1895 he accepted a call to First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C. He edited The Christian Herald, and was also editorially connected with The Christian at Work, The Advance and Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. Besides many volumes of lectures and sermons he published Around the Tea-Table, The Marriage-Ring, Old Wells Dug Out, The Pathway of Life, Everyday Religion, From Manager to Throne, Woman and Sundown. He died on Apr. 12, 1902.