The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

MR. SPURGEON AT DUNDEE.

We are often preaching sermons to the working men
which are insults to them—(applause)—but I have been
thinking of taking this hall and preaching only to rich
men—jute manufacturers, for instance— (laughter)—
the west-enders—intirnating that nobody will be admitted
except he declare that he is worth £40,000. What a mass
of iniquity there would be in this hall I deubt not.
(Great laughter.) Well, well, I believe all classes are
pretty much alike. The credit is always given to a man
that he is a deep thinker if he starts something that is
quite off the track, and away from the true line. It is
well they should tell us they are thoughtful, for we should
not have known it if they had not informed us of it. You
may depend upon it, brethren, that all the best philosophy
in the world is to be found in the old Calvinistic doctrine—
(loud'applause)—and I believe that there are in the Confes-
sion of Faith more of the true elements of moral and spiritual,
philosophy than in any other work in the Eno,,,lish
language. (Applause.) Some people fancy they are holy'
if they make their faces extraordinarily long, and their
words long too. (Great laughter.) You never see them
laugh, for is not the thirty-ninth commandment "Thou
shalt not laugh?" (Laughter.) They are always very
proper, these kid-gloie Christians—(laughter)—always
very, very, very proper=(laughter)—always very pre-
cise. (Laughter.) There is considerable difference be-
tween vinegar and and wine, and there is a difference
between holiness and acerbity of temper, and morosity and
excessive propriety. (Laughter, and " Hear.") Holiness
is not something cold and lifeless, like a statue ; it walks
down from the statue full of life, with a living and
quickening spirit within it. Do you know that lam
persuaded that IVl`Cheyne ought to have been a Baptist?
(Laughter.) There are believers in this world who lam
glad are not Baptists. (Laughter.) I have no desire to
have them in the same boat with me—(laughter)—and had
much rather live with them for ever in heaven than one
hour on earth. (Great laughter.) But there are holy
men whom every denomination would delight to have
within their folds.

ART AND LITERATURE.

Mr. Mark Lemon is stated to be seriously ill.

The Rev. E. O'Meara, A.M., is preparing a catalogue
of Irish Diatomaca. This catalogue will appear in the
form of a report to the Royal Irish Academy, and will,
we presume, be published in its Transactions.
A Berlin correspondent writes that Baron Liebig has re-
covered from his recent severe illness.

The London Figaro says :—M. Regnier and ,Madlle.
Ma;deleine Brohan, both from the Francais, made their
first appearance in London on Monday next, in " L'Aven-
toriere, ' a play which is well known as the original of
Mr. T. W. Robertson's Haymarket comedy -Called
" Home." Talking of Mr. Robertson, it is satisfactory
to know that he is fast recovering, and is now able to
drive out.

We (Nature) regret to learn that Mr. Archibald Geikie,
who recently left England to investigate the Geology. of
the Lipari islands, was prostrated by fever as soon as he
arrived there, and is iu such a weak state of health _that
he has been ordered back to England.
Miss Lydia Thompson has re-appeared 40 Niblo's Gar-
den, New York, in a play by Al, Alexandre Dumas,
written, it is said, especially for her. This piece, which
is entitled " Mosquito," is inelo-drama of the most ex-
ravagant kind.---Mr_ Compton only goes to Manchester
for a season.

The At. enceum says :—We believe that Mr. Syr-inhume,
in his new volume of poems, which bears the somewhat
mysterious title of songs before Sunrise," deals in a
bold manner with the speculative questions of
the day.—A biography of the famous, or infamous,
Lady Caslemaine, is in preparation. The Cob-
den Club are said to .be planning a volume of
Essays on International Relations for January, 1872.
Mr. Disraeli's "Lothair " seems attracting attention on
the Continent. The Augsburger Zeitung has criticised it
at length, and other German papers are doing the same
thing. The Bibliogretlia ltaltauct announced beforehand,
" Lord Disraeli publichera it 2 maggio in suo nuovo
romanzo, iutitolato "Lothair."—M. Fremy, writing
Cosmos, says that science is declining in France
owing to the want of sufficient endowments.—
Mr. W. R. S. Ralston has just started for Russia, with
the view of collecting further materials for a work on
Russian Folk-Lore, which is likely to appear in the
autumn.—" Literature !" was a toast that was to have
been given at the Theatrical Fund dinner on Monday ;
but, as Mr. Dickens was not able to attend to propose or
reply to it, the toast was omitted altogether.