The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-20
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HE RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE-
, LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.

WhiteheId-A Sermon on the MarveIs
OF Nature and the GIOries Of Heaven
LONDON, Sept 1S.-The closing week
of Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching tour
was marked by several gatherings which
IN magnitude and enthusiasm ecl1psed
all that had preceded them. The last
service in London was on Sept. 8, when,
after addressing three great meetings
during the daytime, he spoke to an i'm
mense multitude in Hyde park in the
evening. Some estimates place the
number at 1000. 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
a great audience at the Crystal palace,
Sydenham, the largest building in the
suburbs of London. Prayer meetings in
voking the divine blessing on the services
were held in various churches the pre-
ceding Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Before the sermon Dr.. Ta1mage was en-
tertained at banquet in the large ban
quoting hall of the Crystal palace by a
hundred distinguished clergymen and
Iaymen of every denomination and from
every continent, even including Aus
tralia.
A vote of thanks was moved rehears-
ing DIR. Talmage's eminent services to
God and humanity; also that he had
travelled over $4,000 miles and preached
in every prominent city in Great Britain
to hundreds of thousands of eager audi
tors, collected vast sums for various
English benevolences, and throughout
the entire tour paid his own expenses,
not retaining one farthing. Rev. DR..
Thain Davidson seconded the motion.
and declared that DR.. Talmage 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 APP
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.. TaImage at Crystal palace, Lon
don, in commemoration of his preach
ing tour through England in the summer
of 1892" DR.. TalmaSe was then escort
ed to the greet hall. where the vote of
thanks was unanimously Endorsed and
ratified by the entire audience.
He then preached his farewell sermon,
and shook hands with hundreds at the
close. This was the second sermon ever
preached in the Crystal palace, the first
having been delivered by Pastor Spur
geon thirty-fve years ago on the Cri-
mean war The text selected for today
is from Proverbs xxx. 2S: THE spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces
Permitted as l was a few days ago to
attend the meeting Of the British Scien-
tifc association at Edinburgh, 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,
banished from his pulpit for a short
time by i'll health, had in the fields and
forests given himself to the study of in
sects. And surely if it is not beneath
the dignity Of God to create spiders it is
not beneath the dignity of man to study
them.
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE.
We are all watching for phenomena.
4 sky full of stars shining from Jaru-
airy to January calls ont not so many re-
marks rs the blazing Of one meteor. -
whole flock of robins take not so much
of our attention as one laundering bat
darling into the window on summer
eve. Things of ordinary sound and
sight and occurrence fail to reach rs,
and yet no grasshopper ever springs sup
in our path, no moth ever dashes into tue
M floats
the sunbeam that poUrs through the
crack of the window shutter, no barnacfe
on ships hull no burr on a chestnut, DO
Hmpet cEnging to a rock. no rind Of s-a
artichoke but would teach US lesson II
we were rot so stupid. God in his Bib q
sets forth for our consideration the lilv,
and the snowflake, and the locust, at !
the storl5's nest, and the kinds foot, Al .
the aurora borealis, and the ant hills
One of the sacred writers sitting AND
the mountains sees a hind skipping
over the rocks The hind has such
peculiar 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 az
thinks of the divine care over him he
saws, Thou makest my feet like binds
feet that [ may walk on high places.
And another sacred writer sees the os
trich leaving its egg in the sand Of the
desert, and without any care of incuba
ton walk off, and the Scripture ssyi
that is like some parents leaving tbeiI
children without any wing of protector
or care.
In my text inspiration opens before
Us the gate of palace, and we are IN
Quoted amid the pomp of the throne anc
the courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magni6cence inspira
ton points US to spider plying its shut
tie and weaving its net on the wall
does not call us to regard the grand sur
roundings of the palace, but TO a solemn
and earnest contemplation Of the fac
that THE spider taketh hold with he
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