Excerpt from Authorized and Authentic Life and Works of T. Dewitt Talmage But he did not change because of this criticism.' Year after year he preached on to the largest congregations that ever continued to hear one man. And the people went to hear him! Why? Because he was agreat, human personality. We spend three years in college studying ancient mythology, he says, and three years in the theological seminary learning how to make a sermon, and then we go but to save the world; and if we cannot do it accord ing to Claude's Sermonizing or Blair's Rhetoric or _kame's Criticism, we will let the world go to perdition. If we save nothing else, we will save Claude and Blair.' The work of the religious teacher is to save men; and though every law of grammar should be snapped in the undertaking, and there be nothing but awkwardness and blundering in the mode, all hail to the man who saves a soul from death! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.