The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-21
FAREWELL TO EUROPE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage breaches His
Farewell European Sermon
In tho Crystal Paiace-Lessons In Pcrss-
vetance That Can be Learned From
the Spider-Ihsignihoan No
Excuse for 1naction-what
You Do, Do Well

Talmage addressed an immense audi
ence at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
the largest building In the suburbs OF
London. Before the sermon he was en-
tertained at banquet in the large ban
quoting hall of the Crystal Palace by
100 distinguished clergymen and lay
men Of every denomination, and from
every continent, even including Aus
tralia Avote of thanks was moved re-
hearsing DIR. Talmage's eminent serv-
ices to God and humanity; also that he
has travelled over $4,000 miles and
preached in every prominent city in
Great Britain, to hundreds Of thousands
OF eager auditors; collected vast sums
for various English benevolences, and,
throughout the entire tour, paid his own
expenses, not retaining one farthing.
Rev. DR.. Thaine Davidson seconded the
motion, and declared that Dr. Talmage
commanded the admiration Of the entire
Christian world for faithfully preach
ing the orthodox gospel in times OF
fierce religious dissension. The motion
was unanimously carried amid great
applause. Dr. Talmage was then pre-
sented, in behalf Of his English ad-
mirers, with beautiful and costly gold
watch of unique design, inscribed:
presented to Rev. DIR. Talmage at
Crystal Palace, London, in commemora-
tion of his preaching tour through En-
gland, in the summer of 1s09." DIR. Tai
y,,ooo wac +ban aeonrtad to tho orraa 4
hall, where the vote Of thanks was
unanimously indorsed 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 sermon
ever preached in the Crystal palace, the
first having been delivered by Pastor
Spurgeon thirty-fve years ago on the
Crimean war. The text selected was
from Proverbs, XXX, 2s: "The spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces"
Permitted as was few days ago 10
attend the meeting OF the British Scien-
tiAc association at Edinburg, l found
that no paper read had excited more In
terest than that by Rev. DR.. McCook, Of
America, on the subject Of spiders. II
seems that my talented countryman,
banished from his pulpit for a short
time by i'll 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 moi
beneath the dignity Of man to study
them
We are all watching for phenomena
A sky full of stars shining from January
TO January calls out not so many re
marks as the blazing of one meteor. A
whole flock of robins take not so mucl
of our attention as one laundering ba'
darting into the window on summeI
eve. Things of ordinary sound anC
sight and occurrence fail 10 reach us
and yet no grasshopper ever springs VI
in our path, no moth ever dashes int
the evening candle, no mote ever float
in the sunbeam that pours through tn,
crack of the window shutter, no barna
Gle on a ships hull, no burr on a chest
nut no limpet clinging to rock, n,
rind Of an articholSe but would teach u
lesson II we were not 30 stupid Go,
in his Bible sets forth for our consider
alton the lily, and tho snowflake, ant
the locust, and the storis's nest and tn
hind's foot, and the aurora .borealii
and the ant-hillA One OF the sacre,
writer's, sitting amid the mountains, see
hind skipping over the rocks. TIL
hind has such peculiarly shaped foo
that II can go over tho steepest place
without falling, and as the prophe
looks upon that marking Of the hind
foot on the rocks, and thinks of the Di
vine care over him, he says: Tho
makest my feet Ike hind's feet that
may walk on high places" And IN
other sacred writer sees the ostric
leaving It's egg In the sand Of the dei
ert, and without any care Of incubation
walk off; and the Scripture says, tina
is like some parents, leaving their chi
dren without any wing Of protection @
care. In my text, inspiration opens bt
fore us the gate Of palace, and we ar
inducted amid tho pomp Of the thron
and the courtier, and while we ar
looking around upon the magnihcenc,
inspiration points US TO a spider plyin
It's shuttle and weaving It's net on th
wall. II does not call US TO regard th
grand surroundings Of the palace, bu
TO solemn and earnest considerable
of the fact that 'the spider talseth hol
with her hands, and is in kings pa
aces .ru..
It is not very certain what was th
particular species Of the insect spoke
Of In the text, but shall proceed I
learn from 1t the exquisiteness Of tn
divine mechanism. The kings chan
berlain comes into the palace, and lool
around and sees the spider on the wal
and says: away with that intruder,
and the servant Of Solomon's palac
comes with his broom and dashes dow
the insect, saying: What . loathsom
thing IL is" But under microscopic Il
spection l and II moro wondrous Of COZ
struotion than the embroideries on q
palace wall, and the upholstery abor
the windows. All the machinery {
the earth could not mako anything /
delicate and beautiful ~ the pr
hensile with which that spid'
clutches It's prey, or any Of its eigl
eyes We do not have 70 60 30 far up
see the power Of God In the tapestr
hanging around the windowBof heavel
or in the horses or ohariots Of Gre viii
which the dying day departs, or 70 loo
at the mountain swinging out its swor
arm from under the mantle Of darlrne
until IL can strike with its scimstar,
The lightning. ! love better 10 stnd