The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-28
SPIDERS WORK.
~.0,r Mechanism the orandost In
tho World.
,,en Though Loathsome-sermon
nv rev. a. Dewitt TalmaEe' I'D.

The text selected for Sunday Is from
- Xxx. Is: "Tho spider taketh hold
IAN her hands and Is In kings palaces"
identified rs was few days ago To
\ md the meeting Of the British scien.
~. association, ut Edinburgh, found
~, no paper read had excited more
,-,srcst than that 10y Rev. DIR. McCook,
- America, on the subject Of spiders.
- ..ems that my talented countryman.
h.uishcd from his pulpit for n short
,,,0s by III health, had in the fields and
,S.es,s given himself up To the study of
,..ec,s. And surely IL IL Is not beneath
.Ae dignity Of God To make spiders IL Is
~, beneath the dignity OF man TO
study them.
We are all watching for phenomena,
s,y full Of stars shining from January
"a January calls out not so many re-
marks as the blazing of one meteor, A
,yhole flock OF robbins take not 50 much
a our attention rs ono laundering bat
darling into the window OF n summer
ave Things of ordinary sound, and
.lght. and occurrence, fail To reach us,
and yet no grass-hopper ever springs
nm In our path, no moth ever dashcS in
20 the evening candle. no moat ever
aoa,s In the sunbeam that pours
through the crack of the
window shutter, no barnacle on ships
hull no burr on n chestnut, no limpet
elinginy To- rock, no rind of an arti-
choke. but would teach us u lesson II
we were not 40 stupid God in his Bible
acts forth for our consideration the lily,
and the snowflake. and the locust, and
the stork's nest. and the kinds foot,
and the aurora borcalis, and the ant
hills. One of the sacred writers, sitting
amid the mountains, sees hind skip
ming over the rocks The hind has such
A pecularly.shaped foot that 1t can go
over the stccpcst places without falling,
and rs the proRhct looks upon that
marking of the hind's foot on the rocks,
and thinks Of the divine care over him,
he SAYS: Thou makcSt my feet like
kinds feet that | may walk on high
places" And other sacred writer sees the
ostrich leaving his egg In the sand OF the
desert, and, without any care of ncuba-
ton. walk of; and the Scripture says
that is like some parents, leaving their
children without any wing of protcc-
ton or care. In my text inspiration
opens before us the gate OF II palace,
aud we are indicted amid the pomp of
the throne aud the courtirr, and while
we are looking around upon the mag
nifcencc, inspiration points us tn n
spider plying its shuttle and weaving
its net on the wall. 1t does not call us
10 regard the grand surroundings of the
palace, but To a solemn and earnest con
sideration OF the fact that: THE spider
takcth hold with her hand, and Is in
kings palaces"
II is not very certain what was the
particular species Of insect spoken OF in
the text. but shall proceed 20 learn
from il the cXquisitcncss OF the divine
mechanism. The kings chamberlain
comes into the palace, and looks around
and sees the spider on the wall and
says away with the intruder and
the servant Of Solomon's palace comes
with his broom and dashcS down the
insect saying: "Whut n loathNom,
thing it is" But under microscopic
inspection find it more wondrous 81
construction than the embroidcrics OF
the palace wall and the upholstery
about the windows. All the machinery
OF the earth could not make anything
80 delicate and beautiful rs the pre-
hensilc with which that spider clutches
his prey, or rs any of its eight eyes
We do not have Ia 60 So far up To see
the power of God in the tapestry hang
ing around the windows OF heaven. o'
IN the horses or chariots OF fire witt
which the dying day departs, o'
To look ut the mountain swing
ing out It's sword-arm IRON
under the mantle of darkness
until II can strike with its scimctcr o
the lightning, love better to study
God in the shape of II iiy's wing In th'
formation of iish's scale, in the snowy
Wilderness of pond lily. | love to trac'
his footsteps in the mountain moss ah'
TO hear his voice In the hum OF the rye
helds, and discover the rustic oil M
robe OF light In the south wind. oh
This wonder Of Divine power that ear
build habitation for tod In nh apple
blossom. and tune bees voice until !
ht for the eternal orchestra, ana ear
say In n freely: Let there bo hght
and from holding an ocean in the hol
low OF his hand goes forth to hn'
heights, and depths, and length an'
breadth of omnipotcncy In dewdrop
and dismounts from the chariot OF ma
night hurricane "a cross over on UNI
suspension bridge OF a spiders wen
You may take your telescope and sweel
hacross the heavens In order to oohoi'
The glory of God. but | shall take IN
leaf holding the spider, and the spider