T. De Witt Talmage

we had another just like him; remembered when the first steamer struck the North river with its wheel-buckets; was startled by the birth of telegraphy; saw the United States grow from a speck on the world's map till all nations dip their flag at our passing merchantmen. He was born while the Revolutionary cannon were coming home from Yorktown, and lived to hear the tramp of troops returning from the war of the great Rebellion. He lived to speak the names of eighty children, grand-children and great-grand-children. He died just three years from the day when my mother sped on.

When my father lay dying the old country minister said to him, "Mr. Talmage, how do you feel now as you are about to pass the Jordan of death?" He replied--and it was the last thing he ever said--"I feel well; I feel very well; all is well"--lifting his hand in a benediction, a speechless benediction, which I pray God may go down through all the generations--"It is well!"

Four of his sons became ministers of the Gospel: Rev