Connecticut western news., 1892-09-22
nALMAGE IN LONDON.
LIE RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE- I LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.

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 1 vvhiteneld-A Sermon on the Marvels |, of Nature and the Glories of Heaven. l LONDON, Sept. 1s.-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 30,OO0. The crowd was so dense that many women 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. Tal4nage addressed a great audience at the Crystal palace, Sydenham, the largest building in the suburbs of London. Prayer meetings in voEpg 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 at banquet in the large ban quoting hall of the Crystal palace by hundred distinguished clergymen and laymen of every denomination and from every continent, even including Aus tralia.
 l A vAte of thanks was moved rehears- ing Dr. Talmage's eminent services to God and humanity; also that he had travelled over ,12,0 900 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 naanded 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 design, inscribed Presented to Rev. Dr. Talmage at Crystal palace, Lon don, in commemora ion of his preach ing tour through England in the summer of 1892" Dr. Talmage was then escort cd to the great hall, where the vote of thanks was unanimously 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 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, 28: "The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings palaces"
 n Permitted as was few days ago to attend the meeting of the British Scien- tifc association at Edinburgh, found that no paper read had excited more in- terest 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 ill health, had in the fields and forests given himself to the study of in- II the dignity of God to make spiders it is net beneath the dignity of man to study them.
 THE TEACHINGS OF NATURES
 We are all watching for phenomena. A sky full of stars shining from Janu- ary to January calls out not so many re- marks as the blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of robins take not so much of our attention as one blundering 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 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 a chestnut, no limpet clinging to 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 stork's nest, and the hind's 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 leoks upon that marking of the minds foot on the rocks and thinks of the divine care oyer, him he says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' 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 of, 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 ms the gate of palace, and we are in ducted amid the pomp of the throne and the courier, and while we are looking around upon the magnifcence inspira- Hon points us to spider plying it's shut { tie and weaving it's net on the wall. It 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"
 It is not very certain what was the particular species of insect spoken of in theetext, but I 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
 ssAway with that intruder" and the servant of Solomon's palace comes with his broom and dashes down the insect
 laying, "What loathsome thing it is. But under microscopic inspection l fine
 1t more wondrous of construction thal
 the embroideries on the palace wall an
 the upholstery about the windows.
 All the machinery of the earth coul