Preface

This book takes its title not more from the first sermon than from the fact that it is an attempt to re-open the old fountains of the Gospel, which have of late years been partially filled up. For that reason we call the book “Old Wells Dug Out.”

Some of these discourses were preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and others in the Academy of Music, while our new church was being built.

As word comes to us from all directions that the previous volumes have been the means of comfort and salvation to very many on both sides the Atlantic, we send this book out, hoping it may do a similar work. These sermons, like their predecessors, were taken down by phonographerSj and are left as they were uttered in extemporaneous delivery, without any material changes, because I have not had time to reconstruct them.

They are part of my life. With me the lecturing platform and the literary column are episodes; but the preaching of the Gospel of the Son of God is my chief employment and my indescribable delight. The Christian printing-press is only the pulpit on cylinders. May this attempt to preach through the printed page harvest many sheaves for the Lord’s garner!

T. De Witt Talmagk