News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-22
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HE RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE-
LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.


The Close of a Remarkable Campaign.
Nothing Like 1t Since the Days OF
whitefield-A Sermon on the Marvels
of Nature and the GIories of Heaven.
LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The closing week
of Rev. Dr. Talmage's preaching tour
was marked by several gatherings which
in magnitude and enthusiasm ecllpsed
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 10000. The crowd was so
dense that many WON en- tainted and had
to be removed.
During the services the auditors were
raised to the highest pitch of religious
fervor, and scenes were enacted such as
have not been witnessed since the days
of Whitefeld On the following We'd
nesday evening DR.. Talmage addressed
a great audience at 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 DIR. Talmage was en-
tertained at 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 DR.. Talmage's eminent services to
God and humanity; also that he had
travelled over $4,000 miles and preached
in every prominent city in Great Britain
to hundreds of thousands of eager audi
tors, collected vast sums for various
English beneyolences, and throughout
the entire tour paid his own expenses,
not retaining one farthing. Rev. DR..
Thain Davidson seconded the motion,
and declared that DIR. Talmage COM
manded 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, in
behalf of his English admirers, with
beautiful and costly gold watch of
unique des: n, inscribed Presented to
Rev. DR.. Tall; tge at Crystal palace, Lon
don, in comm elnoration of his preach
ing tour through England in the summer
of 1892" DIR. Talmage was then escort
ed to 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 at the
close. This was the second sermon ever
preached in the Crystal palace, the first
having been delivered by Pastor Spur
geon thirty-five years ago on the Cri-
mean war The text selected for today
is from Proverbs xxx, 2S: ''The spider
taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces"
Permitted as | was few days ago to
attend the meeting of the British Scien-
tific association at Edinburgh, found
that no paper read had excited more in
terest than that by Rev. DIR. McCook, {.
America. on the subject of spiders. 1t
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
not beneath the dignity of man to study
them.
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE.
We are sAl watching phenomena.
"A sky run of stars shining from Janu-
airy to January calls out not SO many re-
marks rs the blazing of one meteor. A
whole flock of robins take not SO much
of our attention as one laundering bat
darting into the window on a summer
eve. Things of ordinary sound and
sight and occurrence fail 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
Impet clinging to a rock, no rind of an
artichoke but would teach us lesson if
we were not SO stupid. God in his Bible
sets forth for our consideration the lily,
and the snowflake, and the locust, and
the storks hest, 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 Inakest my feet like kinds
feet that | may walk ON high places"
And another sacred writer sees the os-
trich leaving it's egg in the sand of the
desert, and without any care of incuba-
ton 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
Quoted amid the pomp of the throne and
the courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magnifcence inspira-
ton points us to spider plying its shut
tie and weaving its net ON the wall 1t
does not call us to regard the grand sur
roundings of the palace, but to solemn
and earnest consideration of the fact
hands and is IN kings palaces"
Is is not very certain what was the
particular species of insect spoken of in
the text, but l 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 Mat intruder" and the
servant of Solomon's palace comes with
his broom and dashes down the insect,
saying, what a loathsome thing it is.
But under microscopic inspection | find
1t more wondrous of construction than
the embroideries ON the palace wall and
the upholstery about the windows.
All the machinery of the earth could
not make anything so delicate and beau
tiful 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 tapes
try hanging around the windows of
heaven, or in the horses or chariots of
fire with which the dying day departs,
or to look at the mountain swinging out
j 8 sword arm from under the mantle of
farkness until it can strike with its
scimeter of the lightning.
GOD IN LITTLE THINGS.
love better 10 study God in the shape
of fiy's wing, in the formation of
fl his scale, in the snowy whiteness of a
pend lily. love to track his footsteps
III the mountain moss, and to hear his
veice in the hum of the rye fields, and
discover the rustic of his robe of light in
the south wind Oh this wonder of di-