LONDON PREACHER on LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 976, 17 January 1882, Page 2

LONDON PREACHER on LONDON.

';•?/"" '.• •. ■» . Mr 0: H. Spurgoon, minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, in' presiding at a weekly lecture a : shprttime-ago, observed-in. opening the proceedings, that never, perhaps, was it more necessary for those living in London to- pray earnestly than at the present , time. .He had beard it said that there % are "now 4,700,000: living souls ! ■the metropolitan district. Such, a oity before never existed on the face of the : earth. Ancient : Rome was _ immensely large'and magnificont, while it was? dilfi- ." cult'to accurately make out whatwas/its population, but of a certainty, in the dayß ■ 'of its highest glory and splendour it never even approximated the size of London of A t'dday. Nor could China with teeming m millions, And its great cities such as ' Pekin boast of .any city to be compared to London, to make up which it would take the two largest cities iu the world, .' Siile it would require five of the other foremost cities. Perhapß some of his : hearers had not even anidea of what a- : million meant, If there where any such present he would recommend them to 'count.a thousand, and observe the time occupied in so doing, though they had fonly got one-thousandth the vay to the .'million.. Then to think that this enormous multitude making up modem London was • continually increasing, not- only "by births, but by those daily flocking into ; it from various parts of the country. " 'Well might they cry out to God that the; ■ - people might be blessed. The wgrst of the matter often was that people conrng to London from tho country did not find the : usual place of worship to go to Frequently they went to live,in streets, the denizens of which never went'to a church at all, and, thus situated, many of.thera ceased going to churchTvtoo. He (Mr ; Spurgeoii) was often struck by the faot ~% that,, many person.! joining that church W (the' Tabernacle) were those who had- , coma from country districts, and who had .ever,the sense o! religion in them, -There werjj. many.Abrahams to-day required to ; pray..,for such a city as this. He-.(Mr. ■ ■ Spurgeon) had of ton' heard a great deal • ; aiboiit plans that were to convert the whole ~jof/jjondon in. a-:, short time; but he candidly confessed. that he believed m none of these -." plans" whatever,. In Grid and the; Holy Spirit, where he and hisl hearers—was, every individual in "fact—to rply, whilst each one tried to give light and example-, within his'ow.nsphere, whatever, that might be,—where each one :so toiao't .there would be veryjittle need fnr.fi:plans." If : lljey( in what was least, He would give them -charge.of r At all events : whan they looked round them they saw enough to pray for,: .then let them pray earnestly..

L'Ohao-t'aug, the presont General Manager of the Arsenal of Fooohow, is under appointment to proceed.to London to asrorae the duties ai Mmtsteif.at-.tbe Chinese • Legation at St James.' Li, present Charge diAffajres.at the same Legation, .will -return at the same time,-and proceed to \ Tokio, Japan, to relieve the Minister .there. ■ A' famous Oalforaia Indian named Tonocoa chief of the Tonjnn Indians, who was a young raanjn 1769, ulm the first friars landed at San Diego, and is conso- \ quently much motto than a hundred years i old has just died, &k A serious conflict recently took place Meoca betweon factions of Moliamme- * dan pilgrims to tho tomb of the prophet. The. fight was sovoro, and sevoral persons wero killed and wounded on both sides. The Govenor of the city refused to interfere, and allowed the combatants to fight it out. A clerk in Cincinnati, in attempting to remove some goods from a show-window by means of a brass rod, on 0ct.25, accidentally touched an electric light .wire and received a shock that threw him headlong through tho plate glass to the pavement. His fnco was badly cut, but lie was not permanently injured. A trip to tho Umpire Ulty may not only . bo mado pleasurable but profitable. To those who can combine business with pleasure, ijt. must bo gratifying to inspect tho.-.large stocks of seasonable Drupmj &ni.'Olgl;Mng, such as can be sceu only in a vast centre of population like'the City ot Wellington, Visitoi'B from tho Wnirarapa'tyill 'find one of • thelargest ami best selcctctlat lames Smith's ■ ;Te'J.ro House. ':.'",". ■ Tho stock of Chthhuf. iat Men' l ), Youjhs' and. •Boys'wear has been made to specia order for Te Aro House. All materials liavo been carefully soleotod anil all styles judi- . eiously chosen. Belter mine it ts impossible to obtain. Ons .great speciality of Te Aro House is the immense variety of Boys' and. Youths' Clothlwj. Parents and Guardians ' should fact in mind when they visitit(wn,nud wend their way to James Smith ft'Aro Home. Th.feSpriiig'.'l'aSliioiis tins season are_ ex-.. 1 oeedingly pretty, varied, and chaste. 'lnLadies' Dress materials, Millinery, Mantles, laccf,. Bibbons, and Scarfs the choice is unusually large-and-elegant. Visitors to Wellington would do well to pay an early : / visit to James Smith's Tc Aro House. '"' .. ■ ' i ' i