Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-19

this wonder of Divine power that can
build habItatiOn for God in an apple
blossom, and tune bees voice until 1t
is fit for the eternal orchestra, and can
saw 10 a FREELY: LET there be light"
and from holding an ocean in the hol-
low of His hand goes forth to find
heights, and depths and length, and
breadth Of omnipOtency in a dewdrop,
and dismounts from the chariot OF mid
night hurricane 10 cross over on the
suspension bridge of spiders web. You
may take your telescope and sweep IL
across the heavens in order to behold
the glory of God; but shall take the
leaf holding the spider, and the spiders
web, and l shall bring the microscope
to my eye, and while 1 gaze, and look,
and study, and am COMPOUNDED, Will
kneel down in the grass and cry:
Great and marvellous are Thy works,
Lord God Almighty"
Again. my text teaches me that repul-
siveness and loathsomeness will some
times climb up into every elevated
places. You would have tried to have
killed the spider that Solomon saw. You
would have said: This is no place for
it. II that spider is determined to weave
a web, let il 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
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 aud re-
pulslve get up into very elevated places.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST,
for instance, is a palace. The king Of
heaven and earth lives in it. Accord
ing 70 the Bible, her beams are of cedar,
and her rafters Of tir, and her windows
of agate, and the fountains Of salvation
dash a rain Of light. IL 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,
ADD abuse, crawling up on the walls OF
the Church, spinning web from arch
TO arch, and from the top Of one COM
mUnion tankard TO the top OF another
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. 1t 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-
Gus 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
homer" I will tell you what is the mat
ter with il. 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: slow
useful that man must be-" But you
find. amid all his splendor of faculties,
there is some prejudice, some whim,
some evil habit, that a great many peo-
pie do not notice, but that you have
happened TO notice, and it is gradually
spelling that mans character-it is
gradually going to injure his entire in
1uence.
OTHERS MAY NOT SEE,
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.
A palace means splendor OF apart
ments. Now, l do not know where
heaven is, and l do not know how it
looks, but, IL our bodies are TO be resur-
rected in the last day, l think heaven
must have a material splendor as well as
a spiritual grandeur. Oh, what gran
deur of apartments when that Divine
hand which plungeS the sea into blue,
and the foliage into green, and sets the
sunset on fire, shall gather all the
beautiful colOrS OF earth around his
throne, aud when that arm which lifted
the piliars'Of Alpine rock, and bent the
arch of the sky, shall raise before our
soul the eternal architecture, and that
hand which hung with loops OF fire the
curtains OF the morning shall prepare
the upholstery Of our kingly residence!
A palace also means splendor OF asso-
Citations. The poor man, the outcast
cannot get into Windsor Castle. The
sentinel Of the queen stands there and
cries "Halt" as he tries TO enter. But
in the palace of which l speak We may
all become residents, and we shall ali be
princes and kings. We may nave been
beggars, we may have been Outcasts, we
may have been wandering and lost as
we all have been, but there we shall
take our regal power. What compan-
ionShip in heayenl To walk side By Side
with John and James, and Peter, aHd
Paul, and Moses, and Joshua, and Caleb,
and Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, and Micah,
and Zachariah, and Wilberforce, and
oliver Cromwell, and Philip Doddridge,
and Edward Payson, and John Milton,
and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah Moore,
and Charlotte Elizabeth, and all the
other kings and queens OF heaven. o
my soul, what cOmpanionship.
Years ago, with lanterns aud torches,
and a guide, we went down in the Nam
moth Cave Of Kentucky. You may
walk fourteen miles aud see no sunlight.
Ii is a Stupendous place. Some places
the roof Of the cave are a hundred feet
high. The grottOes filled with weird
echoes, cascades falling from invisible
height TO invisible depth. Stalagmites
rising up from the floor OF the cave
stalactiteS descending from the roof OF
the cave, joining each other, and making
pillars of the Almighty's sculpturing,
There are rosettes Of amethyst in halls
of gypsum. AS the guide carries his
lantern ahead of you, the shadows have
an appearance
SUPERNATURAL AND SPECTRAL.
The darkness is fearful Two people
getting lost from their guide only few
hours, years ago, were demented, and
for wears sat in their insanity. You