Connecticut western news., 1892-09-22

 dewdrop, and dismounts from the char lot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the suspension bridge of a spiders web.
 You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God, but I shall take the leaf holding the spider and the spiders web, and I shall bring the mi croscope to my eye, and while gaze and look and study and am confounded I will kneel down in the grass and cry, "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God AlmightyP'
 Again, my text teaches me that insig- nifcance is no excuse for inaction. This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: "I can't weave a web worthy of this great palace; what can 1 do amid all this gold embroidery? am not able to make anything fit for so grand place, and so I will not work my spinning jenny" Not so said the spider. "The spider taketh hold with her hands," Oh, what lesson that is for you and mel You say if you had some great sermon to preach, if you only had great audience to talk to, if you had a great army to marshal, if you only had 8 constitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to do-then you would show us. Yes, you would show usl
 What if the Levite in the ancient tenn pie had refused to snuff the candle be- cause he could not be a high priest? What if the humming bird should refuse to sing its song into the ear of the honey suckle because it cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into the sun? What if the raindrop should refuse to descend be- cause it is not Niagara? What if the spider of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave a Solomon's robe? Away with such follyl If you 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 promo tion, but you cannot be general until you have been captain, lieutenant and colonel. It is step by step, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Christian character is builded. Therefore be content to do what God commands you to do.
 God is not ashamed to do small things. He is not ashamed to be found chiseling grain of sand, or helping a honeybee accuracy, or tingeing shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of chafinch. What God does, he does we'll What you do, do well, be it a 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. If only the thousandth part of a talent, employ that. "Be thou faithful unto death, and will give thee the crown of life." tell you If you are not faithful to God in small sphere, you would be indolent and in- significant in a large sphere.
 THE REPULSIvE IN HIGH PLACES.
 Again, my text teaches me that re- pulsiveness 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 it. If that spider is determined to weave a web, let it do so down in the cellar of this palace or in some dark dungeon" Ahl the spider of the text could not be discouraged. Itclambefed on and climbed up, higher 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 kings palaces" And so it often is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up into very elevated places.
 The church of Christ, for instance, is 8 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 salvation dash a rain of light. It is glorious palace-the church of God is, and yet sometimes unseemly and loathsome things creep up into it. evil speaking and rancor and islander 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 tankard. Glorious 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. It ought to be the residence of everything royal. Kindness, love, peace, patience and for bearance ought to be the princes resid- ing there, and yet sometimes dissipation crawls up into that home, and the jeal- Ous eye comes up, and the scene of peace and plenty becomes the scene of domes- l tic jargon and dissonance. You say, "What is the matter with the homer | will tell you what is the matter with it. 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 proportions. You say, "How useful that man must bep' But you find amid all his splendor of faculties there is some prejudice, some whim, some evil habit that a great many people do not notice, but that you have happened tc notice, and it is gradually spelling that mans character-it is gradually going to injure his entire influence Others may not see it, but you are anxious 1T regard to his welfare, and now you dis cover it. A dead fly in the ointment spider in the palace. --
 TOLL FOR THE HIGHER.
 Again, my text teaches me that per severance will mount into the kings palace. It must have seemed long distance for that spider to climb in Solo mons splendid residence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went ul over the panels of Lebanon cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than thu highest throne in all the nations-th,
 throne of Solomon. And so God has de
 creed it that many of those who ar
 down in the dust of sin and dishono
 shall gradually attain to the King | VI ;,, T.,