The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-19

Lord God Almighty
Again, my text teaches me that insignin-
canoe is no excuse for inscsion; Tnis spider
that Solomon saw on the wall might have
said: 81 can't weave q 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 30
will not work my spinning jenny" Not so
said the spider. "Ihe spider taketh hold
with her hands, o, what lesson that is
for YOU and me! You say IL you had some
great sermon to preach, If you only had a
great audience to talk to, IL you had q great
army TO marshal, II you only bad consti-
tuition to write, II there was some
tremendous thing in the world for you
e. do-then you would show US.
Yes. YOU would show US! What IL the Le-
vite In the ancient temple had refused. to
snuff the candle because he could not be q
high prlestl What II the humminR bird
should refuse to sing its song into the ear OF
the honevsuckle because It cannot, like the
eagle, dash Its wing into the sum- What IL
the rain drop should refuse to descend be-
cause it is not a NiagarAl What II the spi-
der Of the text should refuse to move its
shuttle because IL cannot weave a Solomon's
rObel Away with such folly. II you are
lazy with the one alent, you would be lazy
with the ten tslents If Milo cannot lift
the calf be never will have strength to lift
the OK. In the Lords army there is order
for promotion; but you cannot be q general
until you have been a captain, a lieu
tenant and colonel. 1t is step by step,
IL Is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke
that our Christian character is builded.
Therefore be content to do what God COM
mands you 10 do. God Is not ashamed 20 do
small things. He is not ashamed to be
found ohiseling grain or sand, or helping
honey bee 70 construct its cell with math-
ematical accuracy, or HRgtng a shell in the
atrrf ghantun the hill nf a NhafT1nNh
What God does, he does well. What you
do, do we'll, be IL a great work or a small
work. If ten talents, employ all the ten.
If FIVE talents employ all the five. If one
talent, employ the one. II only the thou
sandth part OF a talent, employ that. "Be
thou faithful unto death. and will give
thee crown Of hfe.n l tell you il you
are not faithful to God in a small sphere
you would be indolent and insignificant Ia
a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that repulsive-
ness and loathsomeness 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 il. II that spider is
determined to weave a web, let it do so
down in the cellar Of this palace, or in some
dark dungeon" Ali the spider of the text
could not be discouraged 1t clambered on,
and climbed up, higher, and higher. and
higher, until after awhile 1t reached the
kings vision, and be said: THE spider
taketh hold with her hands. and isIin kings
palacesn And so it often is now that things
that are loRthsome and repulsiye get up into
very elevated places.
The church Of Christ, for instance, Is a
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 the fountains Of SAL
fDv,d aa Of ferhA d oil
palace-the church OF God is; and yet, some
times. unseemlY and loathsome things creep
up into into it-evil-speakinR, and rancor,
aud SANDER, and backbiting, and abuse,
crawling up on the walls of the church,
spinning a web from arch to arch aud from
the TOP OF one communion tanknrd to the
top of another communion tankRrd. Glo-
rious palace 10 which there ought only to be
light, and love, and pardon, and grace; yet
a spider In the palacel
Home ought 10 be a castle. II ought 10
be the residence Of everything royal. Kind
ness, love, peace, patience and forbearance
ought to be the princes residing there; and
yet sometimes dissipation crawls up into
that home and the jealous eye comes up
aud the scene of peace and plenty becomes
the scene OF domestic jargon and disson-
ance. You say: What is the matter with
the home" will tell you what 10 the mat
ter with itl A spider in the palace.
A well-developed Christian character is a
grand thing TO look at You see some man
with great intellectual and spiritual pro-
portions. You say: How useful that man
must bel" But you find, amidst all his
splender Of faculties, there is some preju-
dice, some whim, some evil habit that a
great many people do not notice, but that
you have happened TO notice, and 1t is grad
ually spelling that mans character-it is
gradually going to injure his entire inf1u-
ence. Others may not see 1t, 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 a long distance foI
that spider to climb In Solomon's splendid
residence, but it started at the very, foot oi
the wall and went up over the panels Of
Lebanon cedar, higher and higher until il
stood higher than the highest throne In al
the nations-the throne OF Solomon. AnC
so God has decreed 1t that many OF thos'
who are down in the dust OF sin aud dis
honor shall gradually attain to the king
palace. We see 1t ia worldly things. Whc
Is that banker in Philadelphia Why, b.
used TO be the boy that held the horses o
Stephen Girard while she millionair
went in to collect bis dividends. Ark
wright tolls on up from barber
shop until he gets into the palace of inven
ton. Sextus V. tolls on up from the offlc
of a swineherd until be gets into the palac
of Rome. Fletcher tolls on up from tn
most Insignificant family position until b.
gets into she palace Of Christian eloquence
Hogarth, engraving pewter pots for liv
ing, tolls on up until he reaches the palac
OF world-renowned art And God hath de
cided that. though you may be weak o.
arm. and slow of tongue, and be struci
through with a great many mental and
moral deficits. by his almighty grace yoU
snail yet arrive in the kings palace-not
such an one as is spoken OF In the text-no
one of marble--not one adorned with oil
lars Of alabaster ami thrones OF ivory, anc
hagons of FURNISHED gold-but a palace
in which God Is the king and tht
angels Of heaven are the oup-bearers. The
spider crawling up the wall Of Solomon't
palace was not worth looking after or con.
sidering 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
o, heaven is not dull place. 1t is Tot q
WORKOUT mansion with faded curtains, and
outlandtsh chairs. aud cracked ware No
it is as fresh and fair and beautiful a.
though it were completed but Yesterday
The kings Of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it.
A palace means splendor of apartments.
Now, do not know where heaven is, and
! do not know how it looks, but IL our