Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-22
TALMAGE'SFAREWELL
PREACHED IN FAMOUS CRYS-
tai PALACE. LONDON,
Many Thousands Hear the Great Amcri-
eau Presented with u Gold
watch la Commrmoration Ut Ills
Tour In Britain.

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! the largest building in the suburbs of
London. Prayer meetings invoking
! the divine blessing on the services
/ were held in various churches the pre-.
/ ccding Monday and Tuesday evenings,
| Before the sermon, DIR, Talmagc WAS
entertained ~ banquet in the large
banqucting hall of the Crystal Palace
by 100 distinguished clergymeu and
/ laymen of every denomination, and
! from every continent even Including
/ Australia 4 vote of thanks was
moved rchearsing DR. ralmagc's cmi-
nent services to tod and humanity;
also that he had travelled over l2,Ooo
city IN Great Britain to hundreds oi
| thousands Of eager auditors; collected
vast sums for various English bcncyo.
lcnccs, and, throughout the entire tour,
! paid his own expenses, not retaining
one farthing, Dr. Talmago was then
presented, in behalf of his English adj
mircrs, with u beautiful and costly
/ gold watch Of unique design, inscribed,
| Presented to the Rev. DR., Talmngc ut
| Crystal Palace, London, in common
Grafton OF his preaching tour through
| England, In the summer of lSp2," DIR,
J Talmagc 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 SER
mon and shook hands with hundreds
at the CLOSE This was the second SER
mon ever preached in the Crystal Pal
ace, the frat having been delivered by
| Pastor Spurgcon thirty-tve years ago
ON the Crmean war.
| Permitted aS ! was n few days ago to
attend the meeting Of the British
Scientific association, 1T Edinburg,
found that no paper read had excited
more interest than that by the Rev,
| Dr. McCook at America on the subject
of spiders. II seems that nay talented
countryman, banishcd from his pulpit
for short time 10y ill-hcalth, had In
| the fields and forests given himself Ia
the study of insects And surely II il
is not beneath the dignity of God Ia
make spiders, 1t Is not beneath the
/ dignity Of man Ia study them
We are all watching for phenomena,
A sky full Of stars shining from ,Ianu-
AIRY To January calls out not 50 many
remarks rs the blazing Of one meteor.
! A whole flock of robins take not 81
| much of our attention rs one blundcr.
| ing bat dartiug into the window ON u
summer eve. Things of ordinary sound,
! and sight, and occurrence, fail torcach
us and yet no grasshopper ever springs
mp in our path, no moth ever dnshcs
! into the evening candle, no mote
ever floats In the sunbeam that pour-
through the crack OF the window
shutter, no barnaclc on ships hull,
no burr on chestnut, no limpct cling.
ing To rock, no rind of an artichoko
but would teach Ms u lesson II we were
not so stupid. God in his bible
: sets forth forour consideration the lily,
! and the snowflake, aud the locust, and
the storls nest, and the kinds foot
and the aurora borcais, and the ant
hills. One Of the sacred writers, sit
ting amid the mountains, sees II hind
Skipping over the rocks. The hind
has such peculiarly shaped foot that
IL can go over the steepest places with
out falling, and as the prophet looks
upon that marking of the hind's foot
on the rocks, aud thinks Of the divine
care over him. he says: "Thou makesi
my feet like kinds feet that
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 incu'
baton, walk off; and the scripture
says, that Is like some parents, leaving
their children without any wing OF
protection or care. In my text, in
SEPARATION opens before us the gate of q
palace, and we are indicted amid tn,
pornp OF the throne and the courticr,
and while we are looking around upon
the magnificcncc, inspiration points u,
10 spider plying its shuttle and wcav
ing its net on the wall. II does not
call us to regard the grand surround
ings of the palace, but to solemn
and earnest consideration of the fact
that: "Thc spider takcth hold with
her hands, and is in Kings palaces. '
IL Is not very certain what was the
particular species Of insect spoken oi
In the text, but shall proceed To learn
from it the cXquisitcncSs 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 Solomon's palace comes
with his broom and dashes down the
! insect. saying: What II loathsomc
/ thing it is" But under microscope,
Inspection find it more wondrous OF
| construction than the embroideries ON
| The palace wall, and the upholstery
| about the windows All the machin'
| cry of the earth could not make any
J thing so delicate and beautiful as the
prchcnsile with which that spider
/ clutches its prey, or as any of its eight
eyes. We do not have to go SO far M
| To see the power of God in the tapestry
| hanging around the windows of heaven,
| or in the horses or chariots of fire with
| which the dying day departs, or e
u
/ look at the mountain swinging out It's
sword-arm from under the mantle OF
| darkness until IL can strike with
| its scimetar of the lightning.
| love better to study God IN
the shape of fy's wing, in the forma,
ton of u fish's scale, in the snowy
whiteness of pond lily. ! love to
track his footsteps in the mountain
| moss, and to hear his voice in the hum
of the rye fields, and discover the rustic
of his robe of light in the south wind.
Oh, this wonder of divine power that
can build habitation for God in an
apple blossom, and tune bees voice
until it is fit for the eternal orchestra,
/ and can say to freely: Let there
be light" and from holding an
| ocean in the hollow of his hand
\ goes forth to find heights, and
depths, and length, and breadth of ON
nipotency in dewdrop, and dismounts
: from the chariot Of midnight hurricane