Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-09-29
THE KINGS PALACES.
DR.. TALMAeE's FAREWELL SERMON
IN LONDON.

Review Of His Extraordinary Campaign
OF Preaching In Great Britain-Pre-
sented with Gold watch-Takes the
Work Of the Spider as an Illustration.
LONDON, Sept. 1a-The closing week Of
Rev. DR.. Talmage's preaching tour was
marked by several gatherings which in
magnitude and enthusiasm eclIpsed all
that bad preceded them. The last service
in London was on Sept. 8, when, after ad-
dressing three great meetings during the
daytime, he spoke to an immense multi
tude 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 service 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 Whiteheld. On
the following Wednesday evening Dr. Tai.
mage addressed a great audience at 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
iugs
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage 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-
tinent, even including Australia. A vote
Of thanks was moved rehearsing DIR. Tai
mage's eminent services to God and hu-
manity; also that he had Travelled over
1900 miles and preached in every promi-
nent city in Great Britain to hundreds of
thousands of eager auditors, collected
vast sums for various English benepo-
lences, and throughout the entire tour
paid his own expenses, not retaining one
farthing. Rev. DIR. Thain 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 in be-
halt Of his English admirers with a beau
| tiful and costly gold watch of unique de
| sign, inscribed Presented to Rev. DR..
| Talmage at Crystal palace, London, in
commemoration Of his preaching tour
| through England in the summer of 1892"
DR.. Talmage was then escorted to the great
hall, where the vote of thanks was unani-
| mously indorsed 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
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thirty-fve years ago on the Crimean war
The text selected for today is from Prov
erbs xxx, 2S, "The spider taketh hold with
her hands and is in kings palaces"
Permitted as was few days ago to at
tend the meeting of the British Scientific
association at Edinburgh, found that no
paper read had excited more interest than
that by Rev, DR.. McCook, of America, on
the subject of spiders It seems that my
talented countryman, banished from his
pulpit for short time by i'll health, had
in the fields and forests given himself to
the study Of insects. 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 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 darting into the
window on q summer eve. Things OF orli.
nary 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 in the window shutter, |
no barnacle on ships hull, no burr on |
chestnut, no limpet clinging to rock, no
rind of an artichoke but would teach us a |
lesson If 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 hind's foot, |
and the aurora borealis. and the ant hills. |
One of the sacred writer's walking on
the mountains sees 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 |
hind's foot on the rocks and thinks of the |
divine care over him he says, "Thou |
makest my feet like hinds' feet that I 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 palace, and we are inducted |
amid the pomp Of the throne and the |
courtier, and while we are looking around |
upon the magnificence inspiration points |
US to spider plying its shuttle and weav-
ing its net on the wall. It does not call us |
to regard the grand surroundings of the |
palace, but to solemn and earnest con-
sideration Of the fact that 'The spider |
taketh hold with here hands and is in
kings palaces"
1t Is not very certain what was the par
ticular 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 spi-
der on the wall and says, Away with that
intruder" and the servant of Solomon's
palace comes with his broom and dashes
down the insect, saying, "What loath-
some thing it is" But under microscopic |
inspection find it more wondrous Of con-
struction than the embroideries on the
palace wall and the unholstery about the
windows ALI the machinery of the earth
could not make anything so delicate and
beautiful as the prehensile with which
that spider clutches its prey, or as any of
its eight eyes.
We do not have to go so far up to see the
power Of God in the tapestry 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 noun
tain swinging out its sword arm from un-
der the mantle of darkness until it can
strike with its scimeter of the lightning I |
love better to study God In the shana Of a