Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-22

| lit for the eternal orchestra, ana can say
| to FREELY, Let there be liGht;' and from
holding an ocean in the hollow of his haun
goes forth to find heights and depths and
| length and breadth of omnipotency in n
detvdrop, and dismounts from the chariot
of midnight hurricane to cross over on the
suspension bridge of "A SPIDERS web. You
may take your telescope and sweep it across
the heavens in order TO behold the glory OF
Sod; but shall take the leaf holding the
spider, and the spiders web, and / shall
! bring the microscope to my eye, and while
/ ! gaze and look and study and am con-
| founded, ] will kneel down in the grass
and cry, Great and marvellous are thy
works. Lord God Almighty"
NONE ARE TOO WEAK.
| Again, my text teaches me that insig-
| nifcance is no excuse for iuaction. This
spider that Solomon saw on the wall
might have said: II can't weave web
worthy of this great palace; what can l do
amid all this gold embroideryY | am not
able to make anything fit for so grand a
place, and so | will not work my spinning
| jenny" Not SO said the spider. 1.-The
| spider taketh hold with her hands" Oh,
what a lesson that is for you and mel You
say if you had some great sermon to
preach, if you only had a great audience
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shall, if you only had constitution to
write if there was some tremendous thing
! in the world for you to do-then you would
show us Yes you would show usl
What if the Levitc in the ancient temple
| had refused to snuff the candle because he
could not be "A high priest? What if the
| humming bird should refuse to sing its
song into the ear Of the honeysuckle be-
cause it cannot, like the eagle, dash it's
wing into the SUM What If the faindrop
should refuse to descend because it is not
a NiagaraF What if the spider of the text
should refuse to move it's shuttle because
it cannot weave n Solomon's robe? Away
with such folly If you are lazy with the
one talent you would be lazy with the ten
| talents. If Milo cannot lift the calf he
never will have strength to lift the OK. In
/ the Lords army there is order for promo
ton, but you cannot be a general until you
have been a captain, a lieutenant and u
colonel. 1t is step by step, it is inch by
| inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Chris
tian character is builded. Therefore be
content to do what God commands you
to do.
God is not ashamed to do small things.
! He is not ashamed to be found chisehng a
grain of sand, or helping honeybee to
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curacy, or tingeing n shell in the surf, or
shaping the bill Of a chaflinch What God
docs he does well. What you do, do well,
be it great work or a small work. If ten
talents, employ all the ten. If five talents,
employ all the five II one talent, employ
the one. If only the thousandth part of n
talent, employ that. BE thou faithful
unto death, and | will give thee the crown
( of life" tell you ii you are not faithful
to God in small sphere you would be in
dolent and insignificant in a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that repul-
siveness 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
determined to weave n 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 be said, The spider
taSeth hold with her hands and is in
kings palaces" And so it often is now
that things that are loGthsome and repul-
sive get up into very elevated places,
The church Of Christ, for instance, is Il
palace The King of heaven and earth
lives in it, According to the Bible her
beams are of cedar, and her rafters of fr
and her windows Of agate, ana the foun-
tRinS Of salvation dash q rain Of light. 1t
is a glorious palaCe-the church of God is.
and yet sometimes Unsecmly and loath-
some things creep up into it-evil speak
ing aud rancor and SANDER and backbit-
ing and abusc, crawling up on the walls
Of he church, spinning web from arch
to arch, and from ne top of one commu-
Mon tankHrd to the top of another com
munion tankard. Glorious palace in which
there ought only to he light and love and
pardon and grace, yet Il spider in the pal
ace!
THE CHRISTIAN HOME.
Home ought to be a castle. l. ought 70
be the residence OF every hing royal. Kind
ness love, peace, patience and forbearance
ought TO be the princes residing there; and
yet sometimes dissipation 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 disco
nance You say, "What is the matter
with the hcme?" ! will tell You what is
the matter with it. \ spider in the palace
A well 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 be-" But you find, amid all his
splend0r Of faculties, there is some preju-
dice, some within, some evil abit that "A
great many people do not notice, but that
you have happer!ed to notice, and il is grad
ually spelling that mans characterize is
gradually going to injure his entire inAu-
ence. Others may not sec it. but you are
anxious n regard to his welfare, and now
you discover il. \ dead fly in the ont-
ment. a spider in the palace
Again, my text teaches me that perse-
verance will mount into the king palace
1t must have seemed a long distance for
that spider to climb in 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 decrecd it that many of those
who are down in the dust Of sin and dis
honor shall gradually attain to the Kings
palace. We see il in worldly things
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