New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-13
NUMBER 164.
ME- spHigcon and the .s Metropolitan .
Tabernacle.

On the 21st Of August a considerable number
OF persons assembled in the tabernacle, now in
Goufse q erection near Elephant and Castle,
3outHTafh, 70 near an account of the Rev. G. II,
Spargeohs tour on the Continent the object
being to obtain funds to proceed with the under-
taking According to the statement Of the Treas
urer, e22t l98 los. "a. has already been expended
the building, and about 95o09 more ia renrired
to complete it. In preliminary speech. Mr..
SpargeOn remarked that he should feel himself
" guilty, sneaking sinner if he came into the
place with fl0b debt upon it. Inc ground had
been as much given to them by the Lord "a ii an
angel had come down from heaven and cleared It.
He euOgized the design Of the buding, but said
he would have towers upon ft, uaiess some OF
the brethren wished 10 hang him on them. Before
the promised lecture On the continental tour ma
racr9us speakers addressed the meeting, Mr.
Spnrgcon having announced that he would not
begin until EtnG0 had been collected.
BY about O'Clock e4G0 was raised and Mr..
spurgeon then delivered his narrative. He had
e saftl, received Offers from two well-kn0wn pub
fishers, to issue book, containing a description
OF his journey; but the fact was, he had taken no
notes. However. he would give them o few rough
sketches. In the vessel which took lin TO Ant
worp were number Of Irisilmen who were going
out as the Pope.s brigade. lie felt thankful 10
the captain Tor taking such q lot cut of the conn
try They were the most irrcgular-looki brutes
ne saw, and the captain said they were not ft
to cut up for mops They had the snfalleat amount
Of luggage vessel ever carried with passengers,
among the whole lot there was not more than one
kel-handkerchief and some cold potatoes.
At AK la Chapele he saw some Of the P0pe's
Irish guard, and beautiful lot they looked They
seemed as if it would be necessary for others to
guard them soon. He hoped the day would come
when lreand's brave sons would find nobler &C.
cupation than to attempt to prop mp q rotten
throne, which lie prayed might fall, and might Gar
ibadi be the means of shaking it. This observa-
tion was received by the audience with repeated
rounds Of applause. Mr. Spurgeon proceeded to
give cuEaory notes Of the chief facts of interest in
ter. Antwerp he considered the most religious
place on the face OF the earth, in bad sense--t
Was iull OF Virgin Marys and superstition. He
articles for sale there that were horribly indecent
and vulgar. He blushed to reeollect them.
In Belgium he was gad to find that Louis Ma
poleon was much dsliked. lie thought the day
would come when the people Of this country would
regret that they had rot allied themselves to Prs-
sa instead Of TO France Our natural alliance vas
with Protestant and free country, united to lis
by ties of marriage, and not with tyfant. Bfus-
sells did not please him much, hut there was q nan
preached a sernonther i1 Catholic church which
gratiiied him. Throughout the country the women
did the hard work. while the men locked on and
smoked their Iipes. Had he tMr. Spurgeon) been
one OF the great ssrapping women he saw at work,
and had the husband been sitting down smoking
| his pipe he would have broken any act which
might be in existence for giving two months i'm
| prisonment to woman who beat her husband.
| 1t made him quite indignant to see women sweep
ing the streets and doing all kinds Of ork. As to
Bouogne, he never wanted to 20 there again. He
| had a more vivid recollection of what lie smell
! than what he saw. Every half yard gave some
thing more terrible than he ever snlclt before but
he did not know whether it was Popcry Of not. AT
Baden he went to see the gamiDg-table, and
thought it the most irghtfu spectacle he ever saw
Women sat up all night at it. He would warn peo-
pie that the worst thing that could happen to them
served them right; but they won, the Devil would
have them. flimes.