Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-24
SMALL THINGS.
Dr.. Talmage breaches His Farewell
Sermon In London.
Lessons Drawn From the spiders Web
Small Sins May Grow Until They
Blight tho Church or Ruin tho
FaniIy-The Toiler's Reward.

text was from Prov. xxx. 2S: 1.-THE
spider talseth hold with her hands and
is in kings palaces" DR.. Talmage said:
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
interest than that by Rev. DR.. McCook,
of America, OH the subject of spiders.
II seems that my talented countryman,
banished from his pulpit for q short
time by i'll health, had in the fields and
forests given himself to the study Of
insects. 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.
We are all watching for phenomena.
A sky full of stars shining from Janu-
AIRY to January calls out not so many
remarks as the blazing of one meteor.
A whole flock of robins take not SO
much of our attention as one blunder-
ing bat darting into the window on a
summer eve. Things of ordinary sound,
and sight, and occurrence, fail to reach
us, and yet no grasshopper ever springs
up in our path, no moth ever dashes in
to the evening candle, no mote ever
floats in the sunbeam that pours through
the crack of the window shutter, no
barnacle on ships hull, no burr on
chestnut, no limpet clinging to rock,
no rind of an artichoke but would teach
us lesson il we were not SO stupid
God in His Bible sets forth for our con-
sideration the lily, and the snowflake,
and the locust. and the stork's nest and
the kinds foot and the aurora
borealis and the ant hills. One
of the sacred writer's, sitting amid the
mountains, sees hind skipping over
the rocks The hind has such pc
.culiarly shaped foot that it can go over
the steepest places without falling and
as the prophet looks upon the marking
of the kinds foot on the rocks and
thinks of the Divine care over him. he
says: "Thou markest my feet like
kinds feet that may walk on high
places" And another sacred writer
sees the ostrich leaving its egg in the
sand of the desert, and without any
care of incubation, walk off; and the
Scripture says, that is like some par
ents, leaving their children without
any wing of protection or care. In my
text, inspiration opens before us the
gate of palace, and we are indicted
amid the pomp of the throne and the
,courtier, and while we are looking
around upon the magnificence, inspira-
ton points us to spider plying its
shuttle and weaving its net on the wall.
1t does not call us to regard the grand
surroundings of the palace, but to a
solemn and earnest consideration of
the fact that: "The spider talketh hold
with her hands, and is in kings
palaces"
1t is not very certain what was the
particular specie of insect spoken OF in
the text, but l shall proceed to learn
from it the exquisiteness of the Divine
mechanism. The kings chamberlain
comes into the palace, and looks around
and sees the the spider on the wall, and
says: Away with that intruder" and
the servant OF Solomon's palace comes
with his broom and dashes down the
insect, saying: "What loathsome
thing it is" But under microscopic in
spection / find it more wondrous of con-
struction than the embroideries of the
palace wall, and the upholstery about
the windows All the machinery OF the
earth could not make anything so deli
cate and beautiful us the prehensile
with which that spider clutches his
prey, or as any of its eight eyes. We
do not have to go so far uR to see the
power of God in the tapestry hanging
around the windows of Heaven, or in
the horses or chariots of fire with which
the dying day departs, or to look at the
mountain swinging out its sword arm
from under the mantle of darkness I'M
til it can strike with its scimetar OF the
lightning. love better to study God
in the shape of hy's wing, in the for
nation of fish's scale, in the snowy
wilderness of a pond lily. l love to
track His footsteps in the mountain
moss and to hear His voice in the hum
of the rye fields. and discover the rustic
of His robe of light in the south wind.
o, this wonder of divine power that can
build habitation for God in an apple
blossom, and tune bees voice until it
is fit for the eternal orchestra, and can
say to FREELY: Let there be light"
and from holding an ocean in the hol-
low of His hand, goes forth to find
heights, and depths, and length, and
breadth of omnipotency in dewdrop,
and dismounts from the chariot of mid
night hurricane to cross over on the sus-
pension bridge of spiders web. You
may take your telescope and sweep 1t
across the heavens in order to behold
the glory of God, but shall take the
leaf holding the spider and the spiders
web and shall bring the microscope
to nv eye and while I gaze and look
and study and am COMPOUNDED will
l. ha and QFvs