AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4775, 17 July 1894, Page 2

AROUND DUNEDIN.

(ByfScotohMist) V n—1l ** msf Talmage! Talmage! Talmage! Y7o J liave had him/ fei breakfast, dinner and tea, for the past week, and very various aie tho opinions concerning tins gieatman One of our local doctors said "he i\ould make an excellent Showman for a Nigger Minstiel Tioop," others say "ho has too much of twins; style, too Yunkeenltogetheu" another opimon'is that he" tells" nothing his hearers did not know befoie, etc But the leal fact of the matter is the Scotchmen down our , way expect too much' for 1 their money The majonty of the public, however, enjoyed his'lectuies tholoughly at was proved by the packed audiences nightly seen m the Gamson Hall Peihaps if I gave a prefeience to one lectuie mora than another I should say, "The School of Scandal"was his besfc;jTHe*two * things Dr. Talmage stands head and'■■'.' ;•."■;' shoulder above most lecturers in,are - : his wonderful wdrdpaihtingbf places and scenes he has visited (His de-. sonption of .thefield of Waterloo yKwas.'«{? : masjtea«e : 'of ■■ oratory), v ahd ■ the dther''gi®point • ishisoriginality, He is nothingif nbL,. original,. On S.unday /S he consenteiJv to occupy the ■ -'V onj: (the condition that .every seat should be, freo,for that night, and never-iui'the history bf-tha Church, has snob a congregation, gathered. There is for 1,400, but tliero; were oyer "crushed. iniHho v building, the'aislesp the'stau'S to tho'pulpit (on which I", sat),\,the ; |yestry,r choked' to 'suffocation, ''the-' stair-" cfises leadiiig'to the galloiy iiiid of gait' loft tod werepack'ed, ! awl.there were ,twice,as manyjin th'e.sh'eets; blocking '/■ tiio ti'hffic^'in; front''of the''Chui'ch. , ; ill this took place at 5,30 o'clock, so the; congregation had ton ■hour to sit during which time Mr Bartb, organist, enHveiMthe audience with'soniegr'audZ.^ musical selections, WheOr. TaW. ,? magd, 'accompanied by his Bon,-andsv Mi- Downie Stewart, arrived, they. ■ hadgreatdifficulty in getting into'tho ' Cliurch,anditwasonly'wliou raising that big voice of liis,.Dr. Talmage;;' promised to ad^^s'themoMsidethVV Church at tho conclusion of service, ■ that a passage lvasjiiiade for him to - the pulpit, He isa.tall. well-made . man, clean-shaven, his grey locks., . from tho side being brushed ove'r the . top of his head. His eyes aro Bmall i lint'very keeniiand his mouth and i chin are characteristic of a man of i much determination and great forpe., : , Afterengagingin siletLfcpray6r aifeW ) momente, :s ,;he';.aroße and gazed , solemnly at the two thousand faces : : in front of him, and' then ho asked , thomtosingthelOOtU ■■•. ! People that Qn Earth do t such a volume of souhdcanbotter.be • f imagined than'ddsc'ribe'dj';;esp'epially | when the by mnwaß taken j multitude outside ivlwsang lustily 3 ill the open'r^ l >fißfcjjifcui'b Nvas r a>treat his }nv : can say : iii truth—a took for '. his text, " The Statutes of the Lord - are good,". Psalm 19th, 8, andfov ah 1 hour;and'twdminntes ; he kept the 1 congregation spelUbound,. ; .^. ■ . Speaking of great'men as ihndels: li he said for every five weicould name' .[ s to him, he could give us ten who bee lieved in God. He said the greatest s men of.science .were, 0n,,,. the sido of religion, anil ho' always ■ s folt quito sick when young scientists, !, as soon as they knew the difference^ ■. between the horns of the beetle and ■' the sting of the wasp, with a copy of ; Darwin under one arm and a box of transfixed grasshoppers under the : other, f?patrbnized':the : Almighty arid talked about "culchaw,";,and his only wonder was "how; the.Lord got on. without them beforp ,they. ; y were,bprn, and how the'lordwould--i, get on without them after, they wore ri dead." I hope, every facility will be l t : given tojou Wairarapa folks to d hear Dr. Talmage, and' that you e won't', let, an: opportunity like this•', h one be missed; '':'.. : : ." ; ..V.',''•

Mr Scqbi6:McKenzio<retmedTto his home -yesterday. At Anderson's Bay great sympathy seems: to .be'felt for him in his defeat; He is Buffering' too; with a bad -eyG,'' having'' caught; ft cold in it; during his 'one' solitary week's Had ; he, had time to visit all the .towns and', speak, thoroi is • not a doubt Mr: Larnach would have been tho defeated. : candidate,. I bear- most of ; th'o ..gentler sex; wero in Mi- Scobie McKenzio's favouiybut the elements were against them, It rained' in' torrentso'n the polling day, and the' mud was indescribable, 1 , making.it' almost ah impossibility for women to; go out. Mr Larnach with Mrs Larnach aro already on their way to Wellington, where thoy i will no • .doubt; .riieot with a warm: welcome by all Mount Oargill ; and Flagstaff' are • covered with snow, and so aro all the lowrlying hills, Our cold, frosty days aro infinitely preferable to the wet weather, you are experiencing in the North, and I sincerely hope you won't send it on to us, Moisture is : not in ourline, we are getting more strict prohibitionists everyday, Tho wholesale licenses were quashed by Judgo Williams, bo Clutha is a strictly prohibited district' jiow. To commemorate the death .of: the \ hotels the Salvation Army solemnly playedth'e : "Dead March" before each hotel on Sunday' morning, much to the'chagrin of the inmates. Yes, 22 hotels here are standing in our midst as monuments of. emptiness, tho • inhabitants of which, having sold thei ju&rior,havo left us never ito retuiJpHarthey have all gom to Wdllingtoni' ■■