The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-21

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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
suspension bridge of SPIDERS web
You may take your telescope and sweep
II across the heavens In order to behold
the glory Of God; but shall take the
leaf holding the spider and the spiders
web, end shall bring the microscope
to my eye, and while gaze and look
and study and am confounded, will
kneel down in the grass and cry:
"Great and marvellous are Thy works,
Lord God Almighty"
Again, my text teaches me that in
significance is no excuse for inaction.
This spider that Solomon saw on the
wall might have said; ~ can't weave
web worthy of this great palace;
what can do amid all this gold en-
broidery? am not able to make any
thing fit for SO grand place, and SO /
will not work my spinning jenny" Not
so said the spider. 1.-THE spider taketh
hold with her hands" o, what les
son that is for you and mel You say If
you had some great sermon to preach,
If you only had q great audience to
talk TO, If you had great army to
marshal, II you only had constitution
to write, II 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 Levite in the an
cient temple had refused TO snuff the
candle because he could not be q high
priest2 What II the hummingbird
should refuse to sing its song into the
ear Of the honeysuckle because 1t can
not, like the eagle, dash its wings into
the sun? What II the raindrop should
refuse to descend because it is not a
Niagara? What II the spider Of the text
should refuse to move its shuttle be-
cause it cannot weave Solomon's robeP
Away with such folly. II you are lazy
with the one talent you would be lazy
with the ten talents II Milo cannot
lift the calf he never will have strength
TO lift the OK. In the Lords army
there is order for promotion; but you
cannot be a general until you have
been captain, lieutenant, and q
colonel. 1t is step by step, II Is inch by
inch, It is stroke by stroke that our
Christian character is builded. There
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 grain Of sand, or
helping honey bee to construct Its
cell with mathematical accuracy, or
tinging shell in the surf, or shaping
the bill Of chafilnch. What God does,
he does well. What you do, do well, be
II a great work or small work. II ten
talents, employ all the ten. II five tai
ents, employ all the five. II one talent
employ the one. II only the thousandtf
part Of a talent, employ that "Be thor
faithful unto death and l will give thee
the crown of life" tell you II you arC
not faithful to God in a small sphere
you would be indolent and insignificant
In large sphere. ....
Again, my text teaches me that re
pulsiveness and loathsomeness will
sometimes climb up into very elevatet
places. You would have tried to hav,
killed the spider that Solomon saw
You would have said: This Is no plac,
for It. II that spider is determined Il
weave web let It do 70 down in tn,
cellar Of this palace or in some darl
dungeon. Ali the spider Of the tex
could not be discouraged. ItclambereC
on, and climbed up, higher, and highe
and higher, until after awhile itreachet
the kings vision, and he said: 9Th
spider taketh hold with her hands ant
is In kings palaces" And 50 IL often
now that things that arc loathsome AM
repulsive get up into very elevate'
. placea
The church Of Christ, for instance, 1
palace. The King Of heaven and eartl
lives In It. According TO the Bible he
beams are Of cedar, and her rafters at
Of FIR, and her windows Of agate, an,
the fountains Of salvation dash rain o
light II Is glorious palace-th
church of God Ia; and yet sometimes
. unseemly and loathsome things cree
up into it-evil speaking and ranco
and slander and baokbiting and abus
crawling upon the walls of the church
spinning a web from arch to arch, an
from the top Of one communion tankar
, 10 the top Of another communion tank
, ard. Glorious palace in which ther
, ought only TO be light and love and pal
don and grace; yet a spider In a palace
, Home ought 10 be a castle 1t ough
, to be the residence Of everything royal
, Kindness, love, peace, patience and fol-
bearance ought TO be the princes resid
ing there and yet, sometimes dissipation
crawls up into that home and the jeal
GUS eye comes up, and the scene G
peace and plenty becomes the scene @
D domestic jargon and dissonance. Yo
, say: What Is the matter with tn
, homer" Twill tell you what is the maj
, ter with II. A spider in the palace
: A Awell-developed Christian characte
= Is grand thing to look at. You Sc
some man with great intellectual an
spiritual proportions You say: "Ho'
/, useful that man must bep' But 20
, ind amid all his splendor of facultis
! there II some prejudice, some whin
. some evn habit, that great many pee
pie do not notice, but that You hav
, happened 70 notice, and Is gradual
1 spelling that mans oharacter-it
I gradually going TO injure his entire IL
. Husnce. Others may not see II, but yo
!. are anxious In regard TO his welfare
and now you discover IL A dead fly |