The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-30

fore be content to do what God com
mands you to do. God is not
ashamed to do small things. He is not
ashamed to be found chiseling a
/ grain of sand, or helping a honey bee
to construct its cell with mathematical
accuracy, or tinging bell in the surf.
or shaping the bill of a chafinch.
What you do, do well, be it a great
work or small work II ten talents,
employ all the ten. If five talents, en-
ploy all the FIVE If one talent, employ
the one. If only the thousandth part
of a talent, employ that ''Be thou
faithful unto death, and / will give
thee the crown of life" 1 tell you if
you are not faithful to God in small
sphere, you would be indolent and ig-
significant in large sphere.
A gain, my next text teaches me that
responsiveness and loathsomeness will
sometimes climb up into very elevated
places. You would have tried to have
killed the spider that Solomon saw.
You would have said: This is no
place for it. If that spider is deter
mined to weave a web, let it do so
down in the cellar of this palace, or in
some dark dungeon" All! the spider
of the text could not be discouraged.
1t clambered on, and climbed up higher
and higher and higher. until after
awhile it reached the kings vision, and
he said: 1.-THE spider tal1eth hold with
her hands and is in kings palaces"
And so it often is now that things that
are loathsome and repulsive get up in
to very elevated places
The Church of Christ, for instance, is
"a palace. The King of Heaven and
earth lives in it. According to the
Bible, her beams are of cedar, and
her rafters of fir, and her windows of
agate, and the fountains of salvation
dash rain of light. 1t is glorious
| palace-the Church of God is: and yet,
sometimes, unseemly and loathsome
| things creep up into it-evil-speaking
rancor, and Islander. and backbiting,
and abuse, crawling mp on the walls of
the church, spinning a web from arch
to arch, and from the top of one COM
munion tankard to the top.of another
communion tanlxard. Glorious palace
in which there ought only to be light,
and love, and pardon, and grace; yet a
spider in the palace.
W u CstSJlc- III
to be the residence of everything royal
Kindness, love, peace, patience and
forbearance ought to be the princes
residing there; and yet sometimes dis
sipation crawls up into that home, and
the jealous eye comes up, and the scene
of peace and plenty becomes the scene
of domestic jargon and dissonance.
You say: what is the matter with the
home?" L will tell you what is the
matter with it. A spider in the palace.
A well-developed Christian character
is grand thing to look at. You see
some man with great intellectual and
spiritual proportions. You say: How
useful that man must be-" But you
find, amid all his splendor of faculties,
there is some prejudice, some within,
some evil habit that great many peo-
pie do not notice, but that you have
happened to notice, and it is gradually
spelling that mans character-it is
gradually going toinjure his entire in
fluence. 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 A spider in the pal
ace.
severance will mount into the kings
palace. 1t must have seemed long
distance for that spider to climb into
Solomon's 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 so God has decreed it that many of
those who are down in the dust of sin
and dishonor shall gradually attain to
the Kings palace. We see it in worldly
things. Who is that banker in Phila-
delphia? Why, he used to be the boy
that held the horses of Stephen
Girard while the millionaire went in
to collect his dividends. Arkwright
tolls on up from a BARRIERS shop
until he gets into the palace of inven-
ton. Sextus V tolls on up from the
office of switchboard 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
the Christian eloquence. Hogarth, en-
craving pewter pots for living, tolls
on up until he reaches the palace of
world-renowned art. And God hath
decided that, though you may be weak
of arm, and slow of tongue, and be
struck through with a great many
mental and moral deficits, by His Al
mighty grace you shall yet arrive in
the Kings palace-not such an one
as is spoken of in the text-not one
of marble, not one adorned with pillars
of alahaster and thrones of ivory,
and fagons of FURNISHED gold--but a
palace in which God is King and the
angels of Heaven are the cup-bearers.
The spider crawling up the wall of Sol
omon'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 pal
ace of the King immortal BY the
grace of God may we all reach. Oh,
Heaven is not a dull place. It is not
worn-out mansion with faded curtains,
and outlandish chairs, and cracked
ware. No; it is as fresh, and fair, and
beautiful as though it were completed
but yesterday. The Kings of the earth
of the earth shall bring their honor
and glory into it.
A palace means splendor of apart
ments. Now, I do not know where
Heaven is, and / do not know how it
looks, but if our bodies are to be re-
surrected in the last day think
Heaven must have a material splendor
as well as as pirital grandeur. Oh,
what grandeur of apartments when