Democratic messenger., 1892-09-24
DIR. TALMAGE IN LONDON
HE RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE-
LivERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.


whitencId-A Sermon on the Marvel.
of Nature and tho GIorIes of Heaven.
LONDON. Sept. ls.-The closing week
of Rev. DR.. Talmage's 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 addressing three great meetings
during the daytime. he spoke to an i'm
mense multitude in Hyde park in the
evening. Some estimates place the
number at $4,000. The crowd was so
dense that many women tainted and had
to be removed.
During the services the auditors were
raised 10 the highest pitch of religious
fervor. and scenes were enacted such rs
have not been witnessed since the DAYS
OF Whitefeld. On the following We'd
nesday evening DIR. Talmage addressed
great audience ut 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 DR.. Talmage was en-
tertained ut n 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 DIR. Talmages eminent services to
God and humanity: also that he had
travelled over $1,000 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
mandcd the admiration of the entire
Christian world for faithfully preaching
the orthodox Gospel in times Of fierce
religious disscnsion. The motion was
unanimously carried amid great ap-
plause.
DIR. Talmage was then presented, in
behalf of his English admirers, with
a beautiful and costly gold watch Of
unique design. inscribed Presented 10
Rev. DIR. Talmage at Crystal palace. LoO-
don. in commemoration of his preach
ing tour through England III the summer
OF 1892" DR. Talmage was then escort
ed to the great hall. where ;n. vote Of
thanks was unanimously indurscd 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-tive 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 rs was a few days ago TO
attend the meeting of the British Scien-
tific association ut Edinburgh. found
that no paper read had excited more in
terest than that by Rev. DIR. McCook, of
America. on the subject of spiders. II
seems that my talented countryman,
banished from his pulpit for short
time by i'll health. had in the fields and
forests given himself 10 the study Of in
sects. And surely if it is not beneath
the dignity of God tn make spiders it is
not beneath the dignity of man to study
them.
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE.
We are all watching for phenomena.
a sky full Of stars shining from Janu-
AIRY TO January calls ont not so many re-
marks IS the blazing of one meteor. A
whole flock Of robins take not so much
Of our attention rs one blnndering bat
darting into the window on summer
eve. Things of ordinary sound and
sight and occurrence fail TO reach us.
and yet no grasshopper ever sprin.-s mp
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 10 rock. no rind of an
artichoke but would teach us IA lesson if
we We're no, SO stupid. God i'll his Bible
cts 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 a
peculiar shaped foot that it can go over
the steepest places without falling, and
as 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
desert. and without any care Of incuba-
tion 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. and we are in
ducted amid the pomp of the throne and
the courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magnificence inspira-
tiOn points us 10 spider plying it's shut
tie and weaving its net on the wall. 1t
uptS ioL tslli US ~ ltSdtd iic ~ anu sur
roundings of the palace, but to "A solemn
and earnest consideration of the fact
that The spider taketh hold with her
hands and is in kings palaces"
IL is not very certain what was the
particular species of insect spoken of in
the text, but | shall proceed to learn
from it 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 intruder" and the
servant IF Solomon's palace comes with
his broom and dashes down the insect.
saying, What loathsome thing it is"
But under microscopic inspection find
1t more wondrous of construction than
the embroiderics on the palace wall and
the upholstery about the windows.
All the machinery of the earth could
not make anything So delicate and beau