Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-22
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
AE DELIVERS HIS FAREWELL
SERMON.
The Close of Remarkable Campaign
Nothing Like 1T Since the Days of White
field-A Sermo on the NIarvels OF Nature
and the Glories of Heaven.
Talmage Sermon.


several gatherings which in magnitude
and enthusiasm eclipsed all that had
preceded them at the last service in Lon
don, after addressing three great meet
ings during the daytime, he spoke to an
immense multitude in Hyde Park in the
evening. Some estimates place the num-
| Der at 10000. The crowd was so dense
that many women tainted and had to be
removed.
| During the services the auditors were
raised to the highest pitch of religious
! fervor, and scenes were enacted such as
| have not been witnessed since the days
of Whitefeld. On the following We'd
nesday evening Dr. Talmage addressed
great audience at the Crystal Palace,
| Sydenham, the largest building in the
| suburbs of London. Prayer meetings
| invoking the divine blessing on the SER
vices were held in various churches the
| preceding Monday and Tuesday even
| ings. Before the sermon DR.. Talmage
was entertained at a banquet in the large
| banqueting hall of the Crystal Palace by
| a hundred distinguished clergymen and
| laymen Of every denomination and from
every continent even including Aus
| tralia.
| A vote CT thanks was moved rehears-
| ing DR.. Talmages eminent services to
God and humanity; also that he had
travelled over II, 900 miles and preached
In every prominent city in Great Britain
to hundreds of thousands of eager audi
| tors, collected vast sums for various
| English benevoences, ard throughout
| the entire tour paid his own expenses,
not retaining one farthing, Rev. DR..
THAN Davidson seconded the motion,
and declared that DR.. TaImage com
manded the admiration of the entire
Christian world for faithfully preaching
| the orthodox Gospel in times of fierce
religious dissension. The motion was
unanimously carried amid great ap-
plause.
| DR.. Talmage was then presented, in
| behalf of his English admirers with a
| beautiful and costly gold watch of
unique design, inscribed ''Presented to
| Rev. DR.. Talmage at Crystal Palace, Lon
| don, in commemoration of his preaching
| tour through England in the summer of
1892 DR.. Talmage was then escorted
| to the great hall, where the vote OF
| thanks was unanimously lndOrsed and
ratified by the entire audience.
He then preached his farewell sermon,
| and shook hands with hundreds at the
| l.
| preached in the Crystal Palace, the first
having been delivered by Pastor Spur
geon thirtY-five years ago Oh the Cri-
mean war. The text selected for to-day
| is from Proverbs xxx. %: 1.-THE spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces"
| Permitted as | was few days ago to
attend the meeting of the British Scien-
| tific Association at Edinburgh, I found
| that no paper read had excited more in
| terest than that by Rev. DR., McCook of
| America, on the subject Of spiders. 1t
seems that my talented countrYman ban
| iShed from his pulpit fora short time by
| i'll health, had IN the fields and forests
| given himself to the study Of insects.
| And surely if it is not beneath the dig
| nifty of God to create spiders it is not
| beneath the dignity Of man to study
| them.
| We are all watching for phenomena.
| n sky full of stars shining from January
| to January calls out not so many re-
marks as the blazing of one meteor A
| w .oe flock Of robins take not so much
| of our attention as one laundering bat
darling 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 in
| the sunbeam that pours through the
| crack OF the window shutter, no barnacle
| on ships hull, no burr on q chestnut, no
| limpet cIinging to a rock, no rind of an
artichoke but would teach us a lesson if
| we were not so stupid. God in His Bible
| sets forth for our consideration the lily,
and the snowflake, and the locust, and
| the stork's nest, and the kinds foot and
| the aurora borealis, and the ant hills
One Of the sacred writer's sitting amid
| the mountains sees q hind skipping over
| the rocks. The hind has such peculiar
shaped foot that it can go over the steep
est 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 nv feet like kinds feet that /
| may walk on high places" And another
sacred writer sees the ostrich leaving it's
egg in the sand of the desert, and with
| out any care of incubation walk off, and
| the Scripture says that is like some par
ents leaving their children without any
wing of protection or care.
In my text Inspiration opens before US
the gate of palace. and we are indicted
amid the pomp OF the throne and the
courtier and while we are looking around
upon the magniticence inspiration points
us to spider plying it's shuttle and
weaving its net on the wall. II does rot
call us to regard the grand surroundings
of the palace, but to solemn and earn
est contemplation of the fact that 1.-The
spider taketh hold with her hands and is
in kings DalaceS -
1t is not very certain what was the
particular species OF insect spoken of in
the text, but l shall proceed to learn
from it 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 SER
want of Solomon's palace comes with his
broom and dashes down the insect, say
ing, "What loathsome thing 1t is F"
But under a microscopic inspection find
it more wondrous of construction than
the embroideries on the palace wall and