The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-30

~honcysucklc because IL cannot, like the
eagle. dash its wing into the sun?
What IL the rain drop should refuse to
descend because 1t is not n Niagara
What IL the spider of the text should re-
fuse to move It's shuttle because u can
not weave n Solomon's robe? Away
with such folly. Ifyou arc lazy with the
one talent you would be lazy with the
tn 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 n gem
cral 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 hat our Christian character Is
builded. Therefore be content with
what God commands you to do. God is
not ashamed to do small things. He Is
not ashamed to be found chiselling II
grain of sand, or helping Il honey bee
to construct its cell with mathematical
accuracy, or tineing u shell in the surf,
or shaping the bill of a chaiiinch. What
God does, he does well. What you do,
do well, be 1t n great work or u small
work. IL ten talents employ all the
ten. II five talents employ all the five.
II one talent, employ the one. If only
the thousandth pu-t of q talent, employ
that 'Tc thou faitful unto death, and
l will give thee the crown of life" ]
tell you IL you are not faithful toGod in
a small sphere, you would be indolent
and Insignificant in a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that re.
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sometimes climb up into very elevated
places. You would have tried to have
killed the spider hat Solomon saw.
You would have said: This Is no
place for it. II that spider is deter
mined to weave n web, let it do so down
in the cellar Of this palace, Oh In some
dark dungeon" All. the spider Of the
text could not be discouraged. II
clambcred on, and clambered up high.
or, and higher, and higher, until after
awhile 1t reached the kings vision, and
he said: ''Thc spider taketh hold with
her hands, and is in the kings palaces
And so it often is now that things that
are loathsomc and rcpulsive get up into
very elevated places.
The church OF Christ. for instance, ID
a palace. The King of Heaven and
earth lives Ia 1t. According to the
Bible, her beams are Of cedar, and he,
rafters Of fir, and her windows of agate
and fountains OF salvation dash a rair
of light. 1t is a glorious ~palace-th,
church Of God is; and yet, sometimes
unscemly md loathsomc things creel
up into it-evil-speaking. and rancor
and Islander, and backbiting. and abuse
crawling up on the walls of the church
spinning n web from arch to arch, ant
from the top OF one communion tanltart
to the top Of another communion. Clio
rious palace in which there ought onl,
to he light and love, and pardon an
grace; yet II spider in the palace!
Home ought to be n castle. 1t ough
to be the residence Of everything royal
Kindness, love, peace, patience, an'
forbearancc ought to be the princes re
siding there; and yet sometimes diss'
patton crawls up into that home, an
the jealous eye comes up, and the seen
Of peace and plenty becomes the seen
Of domestic jargon and d~issonance
You say: "IYhat is the matter with tn
home?" / will tell you what is tn
matter with 1t. A spider in the palace
|, A well developed Christian characte
is n grand thing to look at. You sc
some man with great intellectual an
| spiritual proportions. You say: 'Ho'
useful that man must be-" But 70
find, amid all his splendor of faculties
, there is some prejudice, some whiu
|, some evil habit, that a great many pc,
. pie do not notice, but that you hav
happened to notice, and Is gradual
, spelling that mans characterize
/ gradually going to injure his entire il
fiuence. Others may not see it, but yo
: are anxious in regard to his welfare
, aud now You discover it. A dead fly |
|, the ointment. A spider in the palac,
, Again, my text teaches me that PEI
severance will mount into the king
|, palace. 1t must have seemed a lon
distance for that spider to climb in So
/, omon's splendid residence, but it star
, cd at the very foot OF the wall an
went mp over the panels of Leblanc
: cedar, higher and higher, until it stoo
Q higher than the highest throne in al
4 the nations-the throne OF Solomon
And so God has decreed il that man
v of those who are down in the dust c
. sin aud dishonor shall gradually attai
to- the Kings palace. We see it i
worldly things. Who is that banker j
G Philadelphia? Why, he used to be tn
boy who held the horses of Stephe
Girard while the millionaire went in I
. collect his dividends. Arkwright toll
on up from IA BARRIERS shop until h
a gets into the palace of invention. SEX
y tus V. tolls on up from the office of
m. "a -'se,d until he gcts iYs,. the H-iac
accident one DAY this week. jhdth
working with q gasoline stove vi
VI 40 explosion took place burningri
severely about the face and bod a
Echo. w
md The Ringing Bros, circus wadn
best ever held in Red Cloud. ma
than 5000 people attended it. su'
were in attendance In the a~ftefea
and more than 1000 at night. II
; good and drew people from 30 g
miles distance. m.