Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-19
WORD OF THE LORD
Talmage Delivers His Farewell
in London
TO An IMMENSE COacOURsE
The Campaign HIS Been the Most Rs-
uzTka1l= Since Wnltneld's Time
Natures Mzrvers.

LoNDos. sept. 15-The closing week
or Rev DR.. Talmage's preaching tour
Wa marked BY several gatherings which
IN magnitude and enthusiasm eclipssd
al that lad preceded them The last
service Ia London was on sept 5. when,
after addressing three great meetings
during the daytime, DO spoke 20 an iHn-
mense multitude IN Hyde park Ia the
evening. Some estimates place the
number at 5000. The crowd was so
dense that many women tainted and had
% De removed
During the services the auditors were
raised - the highest pitch Of religious
fsry0r, and scenes were enacted such a.
have not been witnessed since the days
or Whitehead. On the following Wed
nesday evening Or. Talmags addressed
. great audience at tho Crystal palace,
Sydenhan, the largest building IN tho
suburbs u London. Prayer meetings in
yoking the divine blessing or the services
were held Ia various churches the pre-
ceting Monday and Tuesday evenings
Before she sermon DR.. Talmage was en-
tertained at banquet In the large ban
quoting hail Of the Crystal palace by a
hundred distinguished elsrgyInen 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 10
God and humanity; also that hs had
travelled over u 900 miles and preached
II every prominent city u Great Britain
10 hundreds Of thousands OF eager audi
tors, collected vast sums for various
English oenevolences, and throughout
the entire tour paid his own expenses,
rot retaining ono farshing Rev. DR.
Than Davidson seconded the motion,
and declared that DR.. Talmage COM
manded tn 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-
piagse
DR. Taimage was then presented, in
behalf II his English admirers, with
q beautiful ard costly gold watch Of
unique design. inscribed Presented 20
Rev. Dr.. Talmage az Crystal palace. Lon
don. IN cOmmemoration OF his preach
ing tour through England in the summer
Of 1892 DR. Talmage was then escort
ed 10 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 az the
close. This was the second sermon ever
preached ia tho Crystal palace, the first
having bean delivered by Pastor Spur
geon thirty-hve 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 l was few days ago 70
attend the meeting Of the British Scien-
tifsc association az Edinburgh, l found
that no paper read had excited more IN
tsrest than that by Rev. DIR. McCook, of
America. on the subject Of spiders. 1t
seems that my talented cOuntrynan,
banishsd from his pulpit for short
tims by III health, had In the fields ard
forests given himself 70 the study Of in
sects. And surely IL IL Is not beneath
not beneath the dignity of man to study
them.
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE
We ara al watching for phenomena.
A sky fun Of stars shining from Janu-
AIRY 70 January calls out not so many re-
marks - the blazing OF one meteor. A
whole 49, Of robins take not so much
OF our attention. "a one laundering bat
darting into tie window on summer
eve. Things q ordinary sound AMI
sight and occurrence fail 70 reach us.
aud yet no grasshopper ever springs Up
IN cur path no moth ever dashes into tina
evening candle. no mote ever floats in
the sunbeam that pours through the
crack &c the window shutter. no barnacls
On ships buN. no burr on chestnut. no
iimget cliixins - rock. no rind OF an
artichck8 ous would teach as a lesson II
we were net So stupid God Ia his Bible
sets forth for orr consideration the lily.
and ths snowiiase. and the locust. and
the stork's nest. ani the kinds foot. and
TIE aurorn epreaft and the ant hills.
One n the writers sitting amid
tha mount hind skipping
QhrE Nftf nttAtt fst> rNtA 4
pecuher sass ga ia shat IL can 90 over
the steepesi ieos without failing. aud
rs the propfel locks upon that marking
OF the hass fot ora the rocks and
tunx- az tl.tvrie care over him Ia
ss,ys. Thou ritsost my feet like kinds
+. feet that mry walk on high places. "
And another sacged writer sees the os-
tricb leaving ~ egg in the ssnd Of the
desert. and without any care q incuba-
ton waIs 81. add the Scripture saws
tnat Is Hxe some parents leaving their
cnildren without any wing of protection
or care.
In my tsxt Inspiration opens before
as She gate 20 = uslsce AID We are IN
ducped amid she pamp ~ tas throne and
ts.s c5artier. All while ws are looking
arornd apon tina ma9nidcencs inspira-
tien points IA ~ a spider PLYING Is shut
tle snd weaving ia net on the wall. Il
dos not cali a. - regard TIE grand sur
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