The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-19
DIR. TALMAGE ON PALACES
he PREACHEs HIS FAREWELL SER
MON IN LONDON.

ans Crystal FalaCe Lno Eceno OF BIS
Last Effort Ia Rngland-Insignifl-
canoe No Excuse for Inaction-Per-
severance VIII Mount Into the
Kiug's Palacs-The Grave as a Great
Cavern.
LONDON, Sept. 1S-The closing week of
Rev DIR. Talmages preaching tour was
marked by several gatherings which In
magnitude and enthusiasm eclipsed all that
had preceded them. The last service in
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 $4,000. The
crowd was 30 dense that many women
tainted and had TO be removed. During
the service the auditors were raised 90 the
highest pitch Of religious fervor and scenes
were enacted such as have not been
witnessed since the days of Whiteheld.
On the following Wednesday evening DR..
falmage addressed great audience at the
| Crystal palace, Sydenham, the largest
bulldog In the suburbs Of London. Prayer
meetings invoking the divine blessing on the
services were held in various churches the
preceding Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage was enter
tanned at q banquet in the large banquetiug
hall OF the Crystal palace by 100 distin-
guished clio: gymen and laymen OF every
denomination, and from every continenI,
oven including Australia. vote Of thanks
was moved rehearsing DIR. Talmage's emf
nent services 60 God and humanity; also
that he Travelled over IL, 900 miles and
RseAGaasd asa.. IN R,,t"iny every prominent Sn5nt city
Thousands OF eager auditors; col-
lected vast sums for various English
benevolenoes, and, throughout the entire
tour, paid his own expenses, not retaining
one farthing. Rev. DR.. Thain Davidson
seconded the motion, aud declared that DR..
TAlmage commanded the admiration Of the
entire Christian world for faithfully preach
ing the orthodox gospel in times Of fierce re-
| ligious dissension. The motion was unani-
mously carried amid great applause. DR..
| Talmage was then presented, in behalf of
his English admirers, with a beautiful and
| costly gold watch Of unique design, in
scribed: Presented TO Rev. DR.. Talmage
at Crystal Palace, London, IN commemora-
| ton Of his preaching tour through England
in the summer OF 1897 DR.. Talmage was
then escorted Co the great hall where the
vote Of thanks was unanimously iudorsed
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 Spurgeon thirty-flve
years ago on the Crimean war. The text
selected for to-day is from Prov. XXX, 28;
"The spider taketh hold with her hands aud
is In kings palaces"
Permitted as | was few days ago, to at
tend the meeting of the British Scientific
Association at Edinburgh, found that no
paper read excited more Interest than that
| OF Rev. DIR. McCook OF America on the sub
| ject of spiders. It seems that my talented
countryman, banished from bis pulpit for a
| short time by i'll health. had in the fields
and forests given himself TO the study of in-
scots. And surely II it is not beneath the
dignity Of God TO make spiders 1t Is not be-
| meath the diguity OF man to study them.
We are all watching for phenomena, A
sky full OF stars shining from January to
January calls out not 80 many remarks as
| the blazing OF one meteor. A whole flock
| OF robins take not 30 much Of our atten-
| ton as one blunderiug bat darting into the
window on summer eve. Things Of ordin-
ery sound, and sight, and occurrence, fall 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 cling
| Ing TO a rock, no rtnd of an artichoke but
| would teach us a lesson IL we were NOT
so stupid. God In his Bible sets forth for
! our consideration the lily, and the snow
| fake, and the locust, and the stork's nest,
and the hind's foot, and the aurora bore
| Ais, and tho ant bills. One of the sacred
| writer's, sitting amid the mountains, sees a
hind skipping over the rocks The hind has
such peculiarly shaped foot that it can go
| over the steepest places without falling,
and as the prophet looks upon that marking
Of the binds foot on the rocks. aud thinks
| Of the divine care over him, he says: "rhou
| mAkest my feet like binds feet thar l NAV
l BaI N nd fhar
writer sees the ostrich leaving its egg
| In the sand of theI desert, and, with
! out any care of incubation, walk off; and
| the scripture says that Is like some parents,
leaving their children without any wing Of
! protection or care. In my text inspiration
| opens before us the gate of palace, aud we
are indutced amid the pomp of the throne
| and the courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magnihcence, inspiration
| points us to spider plying it's shuttle and
weaving it's net on the wall. 1t does not call
US to regard the grand surroundings OF the
| palace, but to a solemn and earnest consid-
GRAFTON OF the fact that: "The spider taketh
hold with her hands, and is In kings
palaces"
1t is not very certain what was the par
ticular species Of insect spoken of In the
text, but / shall proceed 60 learn from 10
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 In
truder," and the servant of Solomon's
palace comes with his broom and dashes
down the insect, saying; "Whet a loath-
some thing it is.n But under microscopic
inspection find it mors wondrous of con-
struction than the embroi ferries on the
palace wall, and the upholstery about the
windows. All the machinery on earth
could not make anything so delicate and
beautiful as the prehensile with which that
spider clutches its prey, or as any OF its eight
eyes. We do not have to 90 so far up 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 to took at the mount
am swinging out its sword-arm from under
the mantle of darkness until it can strike
with its scimetar Of the lightning love
better to study God in the shape Of a ly's
wing, in the formation of a fsh's scale, In
the snowy whiteness Of a pond lily love
10 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. o. this wonder
| OF divine power that can build a
habitation for God in an apple blos-
som aud tune a bees voice until 1t is fit for