Savannah morning news., 1885-09-14
DIR. TALMAGE In EUROPE.
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER
FROM BROOKLYN'S DIVINE.

The Coming World Feast.
LONDON, Aug. 2S.-War must come.
We have hoped against it, but visit to
Great Britain and the continent this sum-
mer will convince any one that unless
there be speedy proWdentlal interference
France will not much longer keep her
hands off Germany, while England and
Russia cannot much longer be
at peace. Nine out OF ten Eng
hshmen whom 1 have met want
immediate arrangement OF Russia.
They say war must come, and the sooner
it comes the better. They are glad thai
MIR. Gladstone is out, and Mr.. Gladstone,
as saw him the other day, looks as If he
felt relieved at being out. Meanwhile the
Frenchmen want to get back Strasbourg
and Metz, and will be in irritation until
Alsace and Lorraine return. When these
wars break out the nations OF Europe
have so many grudges to settle that there
will be the hemorrhage of a continent.
Blessed are the United States in being
1900 miles away from the field of newt
able strife.
This approaching collision has nearly
luluNO iut Gllltb uGDSuuGuAO OA lil6 phLIOu-
age OF foreign tourists. This apprehen-
sion and the expectation of cholera make
plenty of room for travellers, and give
them the choice of places at hotels. Be-
sides this the cities of Northern Europe
are unusually clean, and all the laws of
sanitation have been better observed.
While in Spain and Southern France
the pestilence has been ter
rinc, the death rate in the
mOsC OF Europe has been very moderate.
Baden-Ba den, Carlsbad, and many OF the
German health resorts are as full as
ever, the lack of American and English
patronage more than made up by the
coming of the more affluent classes OF
Spaniards, who have fed from home to
escape sickness.
ENGLISH WATERING PLACES.
There is no better place in which TO
study character than at the watering
place. The English watering places are
to us great fascination.
Brighton is like Long Branch. Way
mouth is like Cape May. Scarborough
is like Saratoga. Isle OF Wight is like
heaven.
Brighton, being within an hour and a
half of London, the great masses pour
out to its beach and take dip in the
sea.
Dub DChIDuIOuEui 10 buC pihCE NUtIt Jut
high prices shut out those OF slender
purse. 1t combines more OF nataral and
artificial beauty than any place L ever
saw. IL is built on terraces. It's gardens
rise in galleries. Two great arms OF land
reach out into the seas, and hundreds OF
gay sailing craft float in. A castle TOO
years old straggles it's ruins out to the
very precipice. The air is tonic, and the
spectacle bewitching. Lords and ladies
and gentry come here for a few weeks.
The place is cool in summer and warm in
winter. In December the thermometer
hOyers about the Dos, and the people
breakfast with open windows, while
others are skating in London. OF all the
summer watering places l have ever
seen, in some respects Scarborough is the
most brilliant, and is appropriately called
''the Queen Of English resorts" But the
prices are enormous and not many could
meet them.
Brighton is best known 10 American
theolORians as the scene of the late Fred
orlck w. RObertsOn's ministry. We at
tended his little church, which holds, per-
haps, 600 or 800 people, but from whose
pulpit he preached after death 10 thou
sands of clergymen in Europe and Amer
lea thOee strange, powerful, original, and
melan holy sermons. What q life Of pain
be liyea, sleeping many Of his nights on
the door with the back Of his head on the
bottom Of chair, because he could sleep
no other way without torture: his wife
still wOrs torment. Some Of the
English clergy have had wives cell
ebrated in the wrong direction,
but more Of them have homes
decorated and made memorable with all
conjugal affabilities. In the evening Of
tue Saba we worshiped N RObertsOn's
church. We went into ''the extramural
cemetery" TO see his grave. Though dead
thirty-tWO years his tomb bears all the
marks Of fresh atle, tin. on 0ll sides vim
and flowers in the highest culture. Two
bronze medalliOns, one by his congrega-
tlon, the Otner by the working people,
who almost idoll2ed him. On th5 one
medallion his church has Inscribed:
"HOnOred as minlnter, beloved as
man, he awakened the bollest f7enngs In
poor and ricn, in ignorant and learned
therefore is he lamented as their guide
and comforter by many who in 'he bond Of
brotherhood and In grateful remem-
Drance, have erected this monument"
On the other medallion, the work ng peO-
pie, whose practical friend he proved him
self 10 be, preferred the inscription: "rO
the Rev. r. W. Robertson, NJ. A. In
grateful remembrance Of his sympathy,
and in deep sorrow for their loss. the
members Of the Mechanics institution
and the wOrkingmen OF Brighton have
placed this medallion on their beneiac-
tors tomb" How independent OF time
and death an earnest man lives on! That
is poor life which breaks down at the
cemetery.
ROBERT HALLS CHAPEL.
Many Of these illustrlous English
preachers had insignificant looking
churches. We went 10 Bristol 70 see Rob
ert Halps chapel. The present sexton
remembered the great Baptist orator and
preacher. The chapel IN Robert Halps
day would not hold more than 800 audi
tors, but there he preached dlsoourses
that Tung round the world and will ring
through the ages. The size Of mans
chop is not Of so much importance as the
style Of work he turns out. Ole Bull
could play the "Halielujah Chorus" on a
cOrn-stslk fiddle. Blessed are all they
who do their best, whether In sphere re-
sounding or insignificant
But the Isle OF Wight as already
hlnted, has supernal beauty. II "A poet
you will 20 there and see TennygOn's
summer residence. and find him saunier-
ing among the cOrpses with his inevitable
pipe. II you are an invalid you will 70
there 10 bless your lungs with the soft
atmosphere OF its valleys. II you are
fond OF royalty you will either get into
tho Queens castle at Osborne, or see her
equipage on its daily outing. lf you are
a Christian you will 60 To the village
which Leigh Richmond has made immor-
tai, stop at the Inn called "The Hare and
HOundav aud Wait the crave NJ tho