The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-23
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HE RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE-
LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.

INtHS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.
The Close of a Remarkable Campaign
Nothing Like 1t Since the Days o
whiteneld-A Sermon on tho Marvel
of Nature and tho Glories Of Heaven.
LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The closing weel
Of Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching tou,
was marked by several gatherings which
In magnitude and enthusiasm eclipset
all that had preceded them. The las
service In London was on Sept. 8, when
after addressing three great meeting,
during the daytime, he spoke TO an I'M
mense multitude in Hyde park In the
evening. Some estimates place the
number at 10000. The crowd was SC
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 Whitefield. 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 DIR. Talmage was en-
tertained at a banquet In the large BAN
quoting 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 of thanks was moved rehears-
ing DR.. 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 ferce
religious dissension. The motion was
unanimously carried amid great ap-
plause.
DR.. Talmage was then presented, in
behalf of his English admirers, with
beautiful and costly gold watch of
unique design, inscribed presented to
Rev. DR.. Talmage at Crystal palace, Lon
don, in commemoration Of his preach
ing tour through England in the summer
of 1892" DR.. Talmage was then escort
ed 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-five years ago on the Cri-
mean war. The text selected for TODAY
is from Proverbs Xxx, %: "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, found
that no paper read had excited more in
terest than that by Rev. DR.. McCook, of
America, on the subject Of spiders. It
seems that my talented countryman,
banished from his pulpit for a short
time by Ill 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 make spiders it is
not beneath the dignity q man to study
them.
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE.
We are all watching for phenomena.
A sky full of stars shining from Janu-
; y to January calls out not so many re-
marks as the blazing Of one meteor. A
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 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 chestnut, no |
limpet clinging to rock, no rind Of an
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 writers sitting amid |
the mountains sees hind skipping
over the rocks. The hind has such q
peculiar shaped foot that 1t can 20 over
the steepest places without falling, and
rs 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 my feet like kinds
feet that may walk on high places"
And another sacred writer sees the os-
trich leaving its egg in the sand Of the
lesert, and without any care OF incuba-
ion walk off, and the Scripture says
that is like some parents leaving their
children without any wing Of protection
,r care
In my text inspiration opens before
is the gate of a palace, and we are in
1ucted amid the pomp of the throne and
The courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magnifcence inspira-
ion points us to spider plying its shut
lie and weaving its net on the wall. 1t
loes not call us to regard the grand eur
'oundings Of the palace, but to q solemn
md earnest consideration of the fact
hat 1.-THE spider taketh hold with her
lands and is in kings palaces"
1t is not very certain what was the
particular species Of insect spoken OF In
he text, but l shall proceed to learn
rom it the exquisitensss OF the divine
The king. chamberlain
ZONES into the palace and locks aroand
md sees the spider on Che ~af and saps,
Away with that intruder" and TIE
servant Of solomon's palace comes with
lis broom and dashes down the insect,
saying, What a loathsome thing It b."
But under microscopic inspection end
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