Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-22
THE KINGS PALACES,
DR.. TAhMAoE'S FAREWELL SERMON
IN LONDON.

Review of His Extraordinary Campaign
of Preaching in Great Britain-Pre-
ted with u Gold Watch-Takes the
wcrk of the Spider as an illustration.
LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The closing week of
Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching tour was
marked by several gatherings which in
magnitude and enthusiasm eclipsed all
khat had preceded them. The last service
BIN London was on Sept. 3, when after ad-
dressing three great meetings during the
daytime, he spoke to an immense multi
tude in Hyde park in the evening Some
estimates place the number at 10000 The
crowd was SO dense that many women
tainted and had to be removes During
he service the auditors were raised to he
highest pitch Of religious fervor and
scenes were enacted such us have not been
witnessed since the days of Whitefeld. On
he following Wednesday evening DR. Tai
image addressed great audience at the
Crystal palace, Sydenham, the largest
building ia the suburbs of London. Prayer
meetings invoking the divine blessing on
the services were held in various churches
he preceding Monday and Tuesday even
ings.
Before the sermon DR.. Talma9e was en-
tertained at a banquet in the large ban
quoting hall of the Crystal palace by 100
distinguished clergymen and laymen of
every denomination and from every con-
tinent even including Australia. A vote
of thanks was moved rehearsing DR. Tai
image eminent services to God and hui
mauity; also that he had travelled over
lG,0 miles and preached in every promi-
hent city IN Great Britain to hundreds of
thousands of eager auditors, collected
MAST sums for various English benevo-
penccs and throughout the entire tour
paid his own expenses, not retaining one
tarthing. Rev. Dr.. Thain Davidson sec
onded the motion and declared that DR..
'Halmape commanded the admiration of
he entire Christian world for faithfully
preaching the orthodox Gospel in times Of
fierce religious dissenson. The motion
was unanimously carried amid great APP
plaUse.
DR.. Ta!mage was then presented in be-
half of his English admirers with n beau
tiful and costly gold watch of unique de
kigu. inscribed presented to Rev. DR..
Talmage at Crystal palace, London, in
commemoration Of his preaching tour
Trough England in the summer of 1892 "
DR. Talnage was then escorted to the great
hall, where the vote of thanks was unani-
monslv indorsed and ratified by the entire
audience
He then preached his farewell sermon
and SHOOT, hands with hundreds at the
close. This WAS the second sermon ever
preached in the Crystal palace. the first
having been delivered by Pastor Spurgeon
hirty-fve years ago on the Crimean war
The text selected for today is from Prov
RIBS xxx, IS, "Ihe spider taleth hold with
her hands and is in kings palaces"
Permitted as | was few days ago to at
tend the meeting of the British Scientific
association ut Edinburgh, found that no
paper read had excited more interest than
hat by Rev. DR.. McCook, Of America, on
he subject of spiders. 1t seems that my
Vlented countrylnan, banished from his
pit for short time by i'll health, had
n the fields ana forests given himself to
be study OF insects And surely il it is
,lot beneath the dignity of God to make
p.Gers it is not beneath the dignity of
bnan to study them.
THE UNUSUAL ATTRACTS.
We are AL Watching for phenomena A
sky full Of stars shining from January to
january calls out not SO many remarks as
he blazing OF one meteor \ whole flock
of robins take not so much of our attention
as one laundering bat darling into the
Window on n summer eve. Things OF ordi-
naIy sound and sight and occurrence
fail to rracn Us, and yet no gras-hopper
eve. springs up in our path. no moth ever
taSAcs into tie evening candle, 10 mote
ever float, in the sunbeam that pOurs
hrou@h he crack in the window shutter,
io h2rnGc!e on ships hull, no burr on a
rAeStuut, no liinptt Ciinging to rock. no
iirl OIL an a,tiohoEe but would teach us u
lesson il ';o were not SO stupid. God in
A. 4
the lily. 2nt jnc snowflake, ana the locust,
Rad the s'ar.'. nest, and the kinds foot,
f.nd the aurora loreals, and the ant hills.
One Of the sacred writer's sitting amid
the mountains sees hind skipping over
tine rocks. The bind has such peculiarly
shaped foot that ii can 20 over the steep
est places without falling, and rs the
prophet looks upon that marking Of the
Alrd foot on the rocks and thinks Of the
divine care over him he says, Thou
|makest my feet like kinds feet that NAV
walk on high Places And another sacred
writer sees the ostrich leaving it's eggs in
the sand Of the desert and without any
care OF lacubati0n walk of, and the Scrip
ture say that IL like some parents, leaV-
Ing their children without any wing Of
protection or care
IL my text inspiration opens before US
amid the pOmp Of the throne and the
courticr and while we are looking around
upon the magnihcence inspiration points
rs to a spider plying its shuttle and weav-
ing its net On the wall. 1t does not call us
TO regard the grand surroundings Of the
palace but to a solemn and earnest con
eideration Of the fact that "rhe spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palace"
1t i, not very certain what was the par
ticu!ar species of insect spoken OF in the
text but | shall proceed 10 learn from it
the exquisiteness Of the divine mechanism
The kings chamberlain comes into the
palace and looks around and sees the spi-
Her on the wall and says, Away with that
intruder" and the servant of Solomon's
palace comes with his broom and dashes
(down the insect, saying, what loath-
Some thing it is" But under microscopic
Inspection find it more wondrous OF con
htruction than the enbroderes on the
palace wall and the upholstery about the