The youngest of twelve children, born in 1832 at a New Jersey toll-gate his father kept, Talmage became one of the most popular preachers of his age, filling Brooklyn’s Tabernacle and reaching millions through printed sermons. His autobiography follows the milestones of his life, his travels and the celebrities he met, and was completed after his death by his wife Eleanor.
A lively record of nineteenth-century American religious celebrity, for readers of church history and the Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.