BEECHER IN LONDON. He Preaches to an Immense Audience In the City Temple.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 3

BEECHER IN LONDON. He Preaches to an Immense Audience In the City Temple.

New Yokk, July 5,- The "Sun's" London cable special of July 4th says : Beecher's visit has stirred up a tremendous furore in Protestant circles. Appeals for tickets to the City Temple to day were unexampled in number and importunity. It is estimated that the number of applicants who were denied for want of room was sufficiently large to have filled ten temples. Hundreds of persons who considered themselves fortunate in being able to gain admittance under went physical suffering, by being crushed in the aisles, from which they will not recover for several days. Those who found room in that part of the church in which were seated Mrs Beecher and Mrs Parker, wife of the pastor of the City Temple, indulged in considerable comment upon. the contrast oetween the attire of the two ladies. Mrs Parker was conspicuouf ly arrayed in a fashionable costume of satin, while Mrs Beecher was very plainly attired in sober black. Miss Ellen Terry sat immediately beneath tho pulpit in a garden chair, and followed intently the discourse of the American divine, joining heartily in the occasional outoursta of mirth which Beecher's wit provoked. The text of the sermon was, " The greatest of these is love." The "World's" London cable special says : When the eertnon was over, a London official said : " That justifies all that I have ever heard of Beecher. He is the greatest preacher of modern times. We have no one equal to him " Half the congregation tried to shake hands with him, but he hurried away to a Fourth-of-July dinner, where the American eagle was the biggest fowl of the feast. Handbills were handed to the congregation announcing another sermon on 'next Thursday by Mr Beecher, admission tickets half a crovvnwith a shilling extra " for early doors to avoid the crowds at the main entrance." ' ■"■.*. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached in Union Cbapel, Islington, on July llfch, taking his text from, John xvii.. 20, 22, 23 : " Christian Unity by Love's Power." He" , urged not so much theological a« spiritual unity, of which he spoke hopefully. . Men, be paidj were coming 'nearer'; together and ' working for' a larger" humanity. Among , ! hid befit" friends were Catholic priests.' ' , 'He'refuted, the attacks made ' upon him by'th'eErigUsntlre&s for joking in the .pulpit, and'iep&'a'teoV his knbWn Views' ' ofr laughiWgF^^e^evdked^s'uppreßsecl laugher by^hia* 1 quainT: smiles'. 1 ~ The*' onatyjl'was crowded.- After the serraohi Beecher dined ; with' TJeah' Braajey; 1 hi m'&riiihsteV AbbiJy? ,He Afterwards 'visilteef'the'a^JJeyj 1 whWhe twill preach next Sunday. 1^ *•"

WARTJENBtJRc£ CASTLE BURNED. Many Flno Paintings and Works of ■> ' \ '■ '' "Art ''Destroyed. > ' >>'■<■ '•' The famous castle \of Wartenbu'rgJ at Wartenburg, in Prussian.! Silesia, the resi: dence of Prince Gustave yon Courlande, has, b6en, entirely destroyed by 1 "fife. f Prince." ( Gustave', arid his, wife, f the Princess Adele, were in bed when the fire broke out, , and narrowly 'escaped with their lives' The castle contained many famous paint' ings and valuable works of art, all of which were destroyed. ( The ( tire was caused by 1 ' the attack of a pet, dbg belonging 'tip the Princess upon, a man servant who was carrying a lighted paraffine lamp. The dog bit the man, who dropped' the lamp. The lamp exploded and the castle wa3 burned.