The Globe-republican., 1892-10-07
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HE DELIVERS HIS FAREWELL
SERMON.
The Close OF q Remarkable Campaign
Nothing Like 1t Since the Days of White
Zelda Sermon on the Marvels Of Nature
che "">-ies OF Heaven.
Talmage Sermon.

Talmage Sermon.
Using week of Rev. DR.. Tai
msge's preaching Tour was marked by
several gatherings which in magnitude
and enthusiasm echpsed 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
a great audi ICE 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 DIR. Talmage
was entertained at banquet In the large
banqueting hall Of the Crystal Palace by
a hundred distinguished clergymen and
,aymen Of every denomination and from
every continent even including Aus
tralia.
A vote CT thanks was moved rehears-
in g DR.. Talmage's eminent services to
God and humanity; also that he had
travelled over IL, 900 miles and preached
In every prominent city in Great Britain
to hundreds Of thousands Of eager audi
English benevolences, ard throughout
the entire tour paid his own expenses.
not retaining one farthing, Rev. DIR.
THAN 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 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 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 to-day
is from Proverbs Xxx. %: The spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces"
Permitted as I was a few days ago to
attend the meeting OF the British Scien
tiiic Association at Edinburgh, l 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 for short time by
ill health, had IN the fields and forests
given himself to the study of insects
And surely if it is not beneath the dig
niLy OF God to create spiders 1t is not
beneath the dignity of man to study
them.
We are all watching for phenomena.
"A sky full of stars shining from January
TO January calls out not SO many re-
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w .ole 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 US,
aud 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
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on ships hull, no burr on a chestnut, no
limpet clinging TO rock. no rind Of an
artichoke but would teach US lesson il
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 hind : foot, and
the aurora borealis, and the ant hills.
One Of the sacred writers sitting amid
the mountains sees 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 binds feet that l
may walk on high places" And another
sacred writer sees the ostrich leaving its
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out any care of incu baton walk of, and
the Scripture saws 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 or the throne and the
courtier, and while We are looking around
upon the msgnifcence inspiration points
US to spider plying, its 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 Ct the fact that The
spider taketh hold with her hands and is
in kings palaces"
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 aud dashes down the insect say
ing, ''What . foathsome thing 1t is"
But under microscopic inspection find
1t more wondrous OF construction than