Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-19
THE KINGS PALACES.
DR.. TALMAeE's FAREWELL SERMON
IN LONDON.

Of Preaching In Great Britain--Pre-
seHted with Gold watch--Takes the
Work OF the Spider as an illustration.
LONDON, Sept. ls.-'rhe closing week of
Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching tour was
marked By several gatherings which in
magnitude aud enthusiasm eclpsed all
that had preceded them. The last service
In London was on Sept 3, when, after adj
dressing three great meetings during the
daytime, he spoke to nm immense multi
tude In Hyde park in the evening. Some
estimates place the number at 10000 The
crowd was SO dense that many women
tainted and Ind TO be removed During
the service the auditors were raised to the
highest pitch Of religious feryor. and
scenes were enacted snch rs have not been
witnessed since the daysof Whitcfield. On
.s%the following Wednesday evening DR.. Tai
mage addressed q great audience ut the
Crystal palace, Sydenham, the largest
building in the suburbs Of London. Prayer
meetings invoking the divine blessing on
the services were held in various churches
the preceding Monday and Tuesday even
ings
Before the sermon Dr. Tamage was en-
tertained at banquet In the large ban
quoting hall OF the Crystal palace by 100
distinguished clergymen and laymen Of
every denomination and from every con-
tincnt, even including Australia. A vote
of thanks was moved rehearsing DIR. Tai
IMAGES eminent services to God and HUI
manity; also that he had Travelled over
12,000 miles and preache& in every promi-
nent city in Great Britain to hundreds Of
thousands of eager auditors collected
vast sums for varions English benevo
lences, and throughout the entire tour
paid his own expenses, not retaining one
farthtng. Rev. DR.. THAN Davidson sec
onded the motion and declared that DR.. \
Talmage commanded the 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-
plause.
Dr. Talmage was then presented 81, be-
half of his English admirers with d beau
tiful and costly gold watch OF unique de
sign, inscribed Presented to Rev. DR.
! Talmage at Crystal palace, London, in
Il commemoration Of his preaching tour
y through England in the summer Of 1892"
DR.. Talmage was then escorted to the great
hail. where the vote of thanks was unani-
mously Endorsed end ratified by the entire
audience.
He then preached his farewell sermon
and SHOOT hands with hundreds ut the
close This was the second sermon ever
; preached in the Crystal palace, the first
having been delivered by Pastor Spurgeon
thirty five years ago on the Crimean war.
The text selected for today is from Prov
erbs xxx, 29 "Hhe spider taketh hold with
, her hands and is in kings palaces"
Permitted us was few days ago to at
tend the meeting Of the British Scientific
association Mt Edinburgh, l found that no
paper read had excited more interest than
that by Rev. DR.. McCook, of America, on
the subject of spiders 1t seems that my
talented countryman, banished from his
pulpit for short time by i'll health, had
in the fields and forests given himselfto
the study of insects. And surely If it is
not beneath the dignity of God TO make
. spiders 1t is not beneath the dignity Of
man to study them.
THE UNUSUAL ATTRACTS.
We are all watching for phenomena. A
sky full of stars shining from January to
January calls out not SO many remarks 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 a summer eve. Things OF ordi-
nary sound and sight and occurrence
faii 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 in the window shutter
no barnacle on ships hun, no burr on a
chestnut, no limpct clinging to rock, no
rind of an artichoke but would teach us a
lesson II we were not so stupid God In
his Bible sets forth for our contemplation
the lily, and the snowflake and the locust,
and the stork's nest, and the kinds foot
and the aurora b0realis, and the ant hills
One OF the sacred writers walking on
the mountains sees Il hind skipping over
the rocks. The hind has such peculiarly
shaped foot that it can go over the steep
est 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 ne says, Thou
makest my feet like kinds feet that may
walk ON high places" And another sacred
writer sees the ostrich leaving its eggs in
the sand of the desert, and without any
care OF incubation walk Off, and the Scrip
ture says that is like some parents, leav
ing their children without any wing OF
protection or care
In my text inspiration opens before us
the gate of n palace, and we are indicted
amid the pomp Of the throne and the
courtier, and while we are looking around
upon the magnihcence inspiration points
us to n spider plying its shuttle and weav-
ing its net on the wall 1t does not call us
to regard the grand surroundings of the
p,Aace, but to solemn and earnest con
sideration of the fact that "The spider
taketh hold with her hands and Is in
kings palaces"
IL Is not very certain what was the par