Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-24
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
He RECEIVES AN OVATION AND DE-
LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.

Z LINERS HIS FAREWELL SERMON.
The Close of Remarkable Campaign.
Nothing Like 1t Since the Days or
whi.encld-A Sermon on the Marvcis
of Nature and the GIories of Heaven
LONDON. Sept. 1S.-The closing week
Of Rev. DR.. TalmaSe'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. 8. when.
after addressing three great meetings
during the daytime. he spoke to an inn
mense multitude in Hyde park in the
evening. Some estimates place the
number mt 10000. 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.. 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 at IL 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 Ans
trala.
A vote of thanks was moved rehears-
ing DR.. Tallnages eminent services to
God and humanity: also that he hld
Travelled over 10000 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 ono farthing. Rev. DIR.
Thain Davidson seconded the motion.
and declared that DR.. 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.. Talinage 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 commemoration of his preach
ing tour through England in the summer
of 1902" DIR. Talmage was then escort
ed 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-Gve years ago on the Cri-
mean war The text selected for today
is from Proverbs xxx. 2S: 1.-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.. DR.. McCook, of
America. on the subject of spiders. 1t
seems that my talented countryman,
banished from his pulpit for Il short
time by ill 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 all watching for phenomena.
A sky full 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 summer
eve. Things of ordinary sound and
sight end occurrence fail to reach US,
and yet no grasshopper ever springs up
in our path. no moth ever dashcs into the
evening candle, no mote ever floats in
the sunbeam that pours through the
crack of the window shutter, no harnacle
on ships hull, no burr on chestnut, no
;limpct clinging to a 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 consideration the lily.
and the snowflake, and the locust, and
the stork's nest. and the hi1Hl'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 looks upon that marking
of the kinds foot on the rocks and
thinks Of the divine care over him he
says, Thou mahest 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-
ton 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
as 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 it's net on the wall. 1t
does not cali rs to regard the grand sur
roundings Of the palace, but to I; solemn
and earnest consideration of the fact
that "The spider taketh hold with her
hands and is in kings palaces.
1t is not very certain what was the
A.-+;cn1or e,,sc;es of insect sDoEen of in