The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19

ter while it reached the Kings VISION,
and he said: "The spider taketh hold
with her hands and is in Kings pala'
ces." And 30 it often is now that things
that are loathsome and repulsiVe get up
into very elevated places.
The church of Christ, for instance, IS q
palace. The King OF heaven on earth
lives in it. According to the Bible her
beams are of cedar, her rafters of fr,and
her windows of agate, and the fountains
of salvation dash rain of light. 1t is a
glorious palace, the church of God; and
yet sometimes unseemly and loathsome
things creep into the Church-evil spea'
king, and rancor, and hatred, and Sian
der, and back biting, crawling up on the
walls of the church, spinning web from
arch to arch, and from the top OF one
communion tankard to the top OF an
other. Glorious palace, in which there
ought only to be light, and love, and
pardon and grace, yet a spider in the
palaCel
Home ought to be a castle. 1t ought
to be the residence OF everything royal
Kindness, love, peace, patience and tor-
bearanCe ought to be the princes resld'
ing there; and yet sometimes dissipation
Crawls into that home, and the jealous
eye comes up, and the scene of peace
and plenty becomes the scene of jargon
and dissongnce. You say: What is the
matter with the homer" l will tell you;
A spider in the palace.
A we'll developed Christian character
is a grand thing to look at. You see
some man with great intellectual and
spiritual proportions. You say "How
useful that man must bel" But you find
amid all his spleLdor Of faculties there
is some prejudice, some whim, some evil
habit, that great many people do not
notice, but you have happened to notice,
and it is gradually spelling that mans
Character-it is gradually going to injure
his entire influence. Others may not
see it, but you are anxious in regard to
his welfare, and now you discover it-a
dead fly in the ointment; spider in the
palace.
Again, my text teaches me that perse-
verance will mount into the Kings pal
ace. 1t must have seemed long dis
tanCe for that spider to climb in Solo
mons splendid residence, but it started
at the very foot of the wall, and went up
over the panels of Lebanon cedar higher
and higher, until it stood higher than
the highest throne in all the nations
the throne of Solomon. And 80 God
has deCreed it, that many of those who
are down in the dust of sin and dishonor
shall gradually attain to the Kings pal
ace. We see it in worldly things. Who
is that banker in Philadelphia? Why,
he was once the boy who held Stephen
Girard's horses while the millionaire
went in to collect his dividends. Ark
wright tolls up from barber's shop till
he gets into the palace of invention,
Sextrs V. tolls on up from the Office of a
swineherd until he gets into the palace
of Rome. Fletcher tolls on up from the
most insignificant family position until
he gets into the palace of Christian elo-
uuence. And God hath decided that,
though you may be weak cf arm and
slow of tongue, and be struck through
with great many mental and moral de.
fCits, by his grace you shall yet arrive
in the Kings palaCe-not such a one as
is spoken of in the text, not one of mar.
BILE, adorned with pillars Of alabaster
and thrones of ivory, and aagons Of bur.
nished gold, but palace in which God
is the King and the angels of heaven are
the cup bearers. The spider crawling
up the wall of Solomon's palace was not
worth looking after or considering as
compared with the fact that we, who are
worms of the dust, may at last ascend
into the palace of the King immortal
By the grace of God we all reach it, Oh,
heaven is not a dull place. 1t is not
wornout mansion with faded curtains,
and riCkety chairs, and cracked ware
No, it is as fresh, and fair, and beautiful
as though it were completed but yester-
day. The Kings of the earth shall bring
their honor and glory into it.
A palace means splendor of apartments
Now, do not know where heaven is,
and l do not know how it looks; but if
our bodies are to be resurreCted in the
last day, l think heaven must have a
material splendor as we'll as a spiritual
grandeur. What will be the use of a
reeurrected foot if there be nothing to
tread Oh? or of resurrected hand if
there be no harp to strike and no palm
to wave, and no place to take hold in the
Kings paace2 Oh, what grandeur of
apartments, when that divine hand that
piunges the sea into blue, and the foil
age into green, and sets the sunset on
fire, shall gather all the beautiful colors
of the earth around his throne, and
when that arm which lifted the pillars of
Alpine rock and bent the arch of the
SKY shall raise before our soul the eter.
nal architecture, and that hand which
hung with loops of fire the curtains of
aorning, shall prepare the upholstery
of our kingly residence.
A palace also means splendor of asso.
Citations. The poor man, the outcast, can
no. get into the Tuilleries or Windsor
Castle. The sentinel stands there and
cries "Halt" as he tries to enter But in
that palace we may all become residents
and we shall all be princes and kings.
We may have been beggars, we may
have been outCasts, we may haYe been
wandering, as we all have been, but
there we shall take our regal power
What companionship in heavenI To
walk side by side with John and James
and Peter and Paul, and jeremiah and
WilberforCe, and Cromwell, and bod.
bridge, and Elizabeth Fry, aud Hannah
More, and Charlotte Elizabeth, and all
the Kings and Queens of heaven. 0,
my soul, what a companionshipl
A palace means splendor of banquet
There will be no common ware on that
table. There will be no unskilled musi-
clans at that entertainment. There will
be no scantY supply of fruit or beverage.
There have been banquets spread that
cost million of dollars each; but who
can tell the untold wealth of that ban
quet? do not know whether Johns
description of it is literal or fgurative;
but prove it. l do not know but that it
may be literal. l do not know but that
there may be real fruits, plucked from
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