Beautiful Thoughts

by T. De Witt Talmage

Beautiful Thoughts: by The Best Authors; A collection of the best things in the literature of love, home and religion to which is added brief biographies of the writers. Beautifully illustrated by the best American and European artists. With an introduction by T. DeWitt Talmage. D.D.

400 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1896

About the author

Reverend Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage was a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church. He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He also preached to crowds in England. During the 1860s and 70s, Talmage was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.

During the last years of his life, Dr. Talmage ceased preaching and devoted himself to editing, writing, and lecturing. At different periods he was editor of the Christian at Work (1873–76), New York; the Advance (1877–79), Chicago; Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine (1879–89), New York; and the Christian Herald (1890–1902), New York. For years his sermons were published regularly in more than 3,000 journals, through which he was said to reach 25,000,000 readers.

[Bio source: Wikipedia]

See also Thomas De Witt Talmage.