Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-24

web worthy OF this great palace; what
can do amid all this gold embroidery?
! am not able to make anything fit for
so grand place and so l will not work
my spinning jenny" Not so, said the
spider THE spider taleth hold with
her hands" o, what a lesson that Is
for you and me! You say if you had
some great sermon TO preach, II you
only had great audience to talk to, If
you had great army to marshal, If
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
us! What if the Levite in the ancient
temple had refused to snuff the candle
because he could not be high priestP
What il the humming bird should re-
fuse to sing its song into the ear of the
honeysuckle because 1t cannot, like the
eagle, dash its wing into the sun?
What If the rain drop should refuse to
descend because it is not a Niagara?
What If the spider of the text should re-
fuse to move its shuttle because it can
not weave Solomon's robe? Away
with such Jolly. Ifyou 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 promotion, but you cannot be gen
eral until you have been captain, a
lieutenant and a colonel 1t is step by
step, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by
stroke that 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 a
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 chatfinch. What
God does, he does we'll. What you do,
do well, be it great work or small
work. If ten talents employ all the
ten. If five talents employ all the five.
If one talent, employ the one. IT only
the thousandth part of talent, employ
that BE thou faithful unto death, and
l will give thee the crown of life" /
tell you if you are not faithful to God in
n small sphere, you would be INDECENT
and insignificant in a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that re-
pulsiveness and loathesomeness 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 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 clambered up high
err, and higher, and higher, until after
awhile it reached the kings vision, and
he said: THE spider taketh hold with
her hands, and is in the kings palaces. ;"
And so it often is now that things that
are loathsome and repulsivc get up into
very elevated places
The church of Christ, for instance, is
u 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 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, and rancor.
and SANDER, and backbiting, and abuse,
crawling up on the walls of the church,
spinning web from arch to arch, and
from the top of one communion tankard
to the top of another communion. Clio
rious palace in which there ought only
to be light and love, and pardon and
grace; yet spider in the palace!
Home ought to be castle. 1t ought
to be the residence of everything royal.
Kindness, love, peace, patience, and
forbearance ought to be the princes re-
siding there; and yet sometimes dissi-
patton 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-
Pile do not notice, but that you have
happened to notice, and is gradually
spelling that mans character-it is
gradually going to injure 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 palace.
Again, my text teaches me that per-
severance will mount into the kings
palace. 1t must have seemed long