Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-19
GODS HANDIWORK.
THE SPIDER TAKETH HOLD WITH HER HANDS
AND is IN KINGS PALACES
Dr.. Talmage's Sermon in London Yssterday--A
Great Ovation 10 the Eloquent American
Diyine-A Costly Testimonial.

LONDON, September 1S.-The closing
week Of Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching
tour was marked by several gatherings
which in magnitude and enthusiasm
eclipsed all that had preceded them.
The last service in London was on Sep
TENDER 3, when, after addressing three
great meetings during the daytime, he
spoke 70 an immense multitude In Hyde
Park in the evening. Some estimates
place the number at thirty thousand.
The crowd was so dense that many
women tainted and had 10 be removed.
During the service the auditors were
raised 70 the highest pitch OF religious
fervOr, and SceneSwere enacted such as
have not been witnessed since the days
OF Whitefeld. On the following We'd
uesday evening, DR.. TaImage addressed
a ereat audience at the Crystal Palace,
Sydenham, the lars est building in the
suburbs OF London. Prayer meetings
invoking the divine blessing on the
services were held in various churches
the preceding Monday and Tuesday
evenings Before the sermon, DR.. Tai
mage was entertained at banquet In
the large banQueting hall OF the Crystal
Palace, by 100 distinguished clerRymen
and laymen OF every denomination,
and from every continent, even includ-
ing Australia. A vote Of thanks
was moved rehearsing DR.. Tai
IMAGES eminent services 20 God and hui
mainly, also that he had travelled over
1000 miles and preached in every
prominent city I'M Great Britain to hun
dreds OF thousands OF eager auditors;
collected vast sums for various English
beneyOlences, and throughout the en-
tire tour, paid his own expenses, not
retaining one farthing. Rev. DR.. THAN
Davidson seconded the motion, and de-
clared that DR.. Talmage commanded
The admiration of the entire Christian
world for faithfully preaching the or
thodOx Gospel In times Of fierce relig-
ious djsSenSion. The motion was unan-
imOusly carried amid great applause.
Dr. Talmage was then presented, In be-
half Of his English admirers, with a
beautiful and costly gold watch or
unique design, inscribed: Presented
to Rev. DR.. Talmage at Crystal Palace,
London, ia cOmmemOrasiOn OF his
preaching tour through England in the
summer Of 1892" DR.. Talmage was
then escorted 10 the great hall, where
the vote Of thanks was unanimously en-
dorsed and ratified by the entire audi
ence.
he THEN PREACHED
his farewell sermon aud shook hands
with hundreds az the close. This was
the second sermon ever preached in
the Crystal Palace, the first having
been delivered by Pastor Sturgeon
thirty-hye years ago on the Crimean
War. The text selected for to-day Is
from Prov. 3O:2S: The spider taketh
hold with her hands and is in Kings
palaces"
Permitted as ] was a few days ago 20
attend the meeting OF the British Scten-
title Association, at Edinburgh, l found
that no paper had excited more interest
than that by Rev. Or. McC0ok, Of
America, on the subject OF spiders. IL
seems that my talented cOuntryman,
bauished from his pulpit for short
time by ill-health, had in the fields and
forests given himself % the study Of in
sects. And surely if it is not beneath
the dignity Of God TO make spiders, 10
is not beneath the dignity Of man TO
study them.
We are all watching for phenomena.
A sky full OF stars shining from January
70 January calls out not so many re-
marks as the blazing Of one meteor. A
whole flock OF robins take not so much
Of our attention as one laundering bat
darting into the window on a summer
eve. Things OF ordinary sound, and
sight, and occurrence. fail to reach Us,
and yet no grasShOpper ever springs up
in our path, no moth ever dashes into
the evening candle, no mote ever floats
I'm the sunbeam that pOurs through the
crack OF the window shutter, no barna-
Gle on ships hull, no burr on q chest
nut, no limpet Clinging 70 a rock, no
rind OF an artichOke but would teach Us
q lesson If we were not so stupid. God
IN his Bible sets forth for our cOnsid-
GRAFTON the lily, and the snowflake, and
the locust and the stOrk's nest, and the
kinds foot, and the aurora bOcealiS, and
the ant-hills. One Of the sacred writer's,
sitting amid the mountains, sees hind
skipping over the rocks. The hind has
such a peculiarly shaped foot that it
can
GO OVER THE STEEPEST PLACES
without falling, and as the prophet
looks upon that marking Of the kinds
foot on the rocks, and thinks OF the
Divine care over him, he says: Thou
makeSt my feet like kinds feet that l
may walk on high places" And an
other sacred writer sees the ostrich
leaving its egg in the sand OF the desert,
and without any care OF incubation,
wa Ks of; and the Scripture says, that
IS like some parents, leaving their chill
dren without any wing Of protection or
care. Ia my text, inspiration opens be-
fore US the gate of q palace, and we
are indicted amid the pomp OF the
throne and the COurtier, and while we
are looking around upon the magnid-
cence, Inspiration points Us 70 spider
plying its shuttle and weaving its net
on the wall Ii does not call Us 70 re-
gard the grand surroundings Of the
palace, but TO q solemn and earnest
consideration of the fact that: The
spider taketh hold with her hands, and
IS in kings palaces"
Ii was not very certain what was the
particular species of insects spoken Of
in the text, but l shall proceed TO learn
from il the exQuiSiteneSS Of the Divine
mechanism. The kings chamberlain
comes into the palace, and looks around
and sees the spider on the wall, and
SAYS: Away with that intruder" and
the servant OF SOloman'S palace comes
with his broom and daShes down the
insect, saying: "What a lOathSOme
thing 10 is" But under microscopic in
spectiOn I find it more wOndrouS Of con-
structiOn than the embroiderieS on the
palace wall, and the upholstery about
tba vvfndoVs All the machinery OF the