The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-20

spiritual proportions. You say, "HoW
useful that man must be!' But you find
amid all his splendor of faculties there
is some prejudice, some whim, some evil
habit that great many people do not
notice. but that you have happened to
notice. and it is gradually spelling that
mans oharacter-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 dis
cover it a dead fly in the ointment. A
spider in the palace.
TOLL FOR THE HIGHER.
Again, my text teaches me that per
severance will mount into the kings
palace. 1t must have seemed a long
distance for that spider to climb III 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 pations-the
throne of Solomon. And so God has de-
creed 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 Philadelphia?
Why, he used to be the boy that held
the horses of Stephen Girard while the
millionaire went IN to collect his divi-
dends. Arkwrigbt tolls on up from
BARRIERS shop until he gets into the pal
ace of invention. Sextus 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 eloQuence. Hogarth,
engraving pewter pots for living, tolls
on mp 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
great many mental and moral deficits,
by his almighty grace you shall yet ar
rive 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 alabaste< and thrones of ivory and
hagons of FURNISHED gold-but palace
in which God is the King and the angels
of heaven are the cupbearers.
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 may we all reach it Oh, heaven is
not dull place. It is not a wornout
mansion, with faded curtains and out
landish chairs and cracked ware. No;
it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
| though it were completed but yesterday.
IL rDf {1,a hf-1n
honor and glory into 1t.
A palace means splendOr Of apart
ments- Now, l do not know where
heaven is, and do not know how it
| looks, but if our bodies are to be resur-
rected in the last day think heaven
must have q material splendor as well
as a spiritual grandeur. Oh, what
grandeur of apartments when that
divine hand which plungee the sea into
blue, and the foliage into green, and
sets the sunset on fire, shall gather all
the beautiful colors of 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 eternal architecture, and that
hand which hung with loops of fire the
curtains of morning shall prepare the
upholstery of our kingly residence!
THE PALACES OF GOD.
y palace also means splendor of asso-
| Citations. The poor man, the outcast
cannot get into Windsor castle. The
sentinel of the queen stands there and
cries HALT" as he tries to enter. But
in the palace of which l speak we may
all become residents, and we shall sill be
princes and kings. We may have been
beggars. we may have been outcasts, we
may have been wandering and lost as
we ell have been, but there we shall take
our regal power. What companlonshlT
in heaven! To walk side by side with
John and James and Peter and Paul
and Moses and Joshua and Caleb and
Ezekiel and jeremiah and Micah and
Zechariah and Wilberforce and Oliver
Cromwell and Philip Doddridge and Ed.
ward Payson and John Milton and Eliza
beth Fry and Hannah More and Char
lotte Elizabeth, and all the other kings
and queens of heaven. Oh, my soul
what a companionship!
A palace means splendor of banquet
There will be no common ware on that
table. There will be no unskilled mu.
sicians at that entertainment. There
will be no scanty supply of :ruit or bev-
erage. There have been banquets spread
that cost million of dollars each; but
who can tell the untold wealth OF that
banquet? do not know whether Johns
description of it is literal or fgurative
A great many wise people tell me It i:
fgurative: bat prove it! do not know
but that it may be literal. lido not know
but that there may be real fruits plucked
from the tree of life.
/ do not know but that Christ referred
to the real juice of the grape when ht
said that we should drink new wine il
our Fathers kingdom, but not the in
toxicating stuff of this worlds brewing
do not say it is so; but have as much
right for thinking it is so as you have
for thinking the other way. At any rate
it will be glorious banquet Hank
the chariots rumbling in the distance
really believe the guests are coming
now. The gates swing open, the guest!