Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-22

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telescope and sweep II across tho
heavens in order to behold the glory Of
God; but | shall take the leaf holding
the spider and the spiders web,
and shall bring the microscope TO my
eye and while | gaze, and look, and
study, and am COMPOUNDED, Twill kuecl
down in the grass and cry: "trcat
and marvellous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty-
Again, my text teaches nae that i'm
significance Is no excuse for inaction.
This spider that solomon saw ON tina
wall might have said: ~ cant weave
u web worthy Of this great palace;
what can do amid all this gold en-
broidcryp am not able Ia make any
thing lit for 50 grand u place, and SO |
will not work my spinning. Jenny"
Not 50, said the spider The spider
takcth hold with her hands" oh.
| what u lesson that Is tor YOU and
me. You say IL YOU had some
great sermon 10 preach, il YOU only
had great audience to talk Ia, IL
| you had u great army 10 marshal, IL
| you only had u constitution To- write, il
| there was some tremendous thing In
| the world for vom to do thes you
would show Ms. lcs, You would show
us, What II the Lcvite in the ancient
| temple had refused TO Snun the candle
because he could not lac high priests
What IL the humming-bird should re-.
| fuse to sing It's song into the ear of the
| honey -suclslc because II cannot, like
| the eagle, dash its wing into the SUM
What " the rain-drop should refuse 10
descend because II is not Niagnrai
What II the spider of the text
| should refuse Ia move It's shuttle be.
| cauSc II cannot weave u Solomon's
| robe? Away with such folly. II YOU
are lazy with the one talent, YOU would
| bc lazy with the ten talents. II Mild
| cannot lift the calf he never will have
strength to iii the OK. In the Lords
army there Is order for promotion; but
You cannot he II general until you have
been u captain, lieutenant, and
colonel. II Is step by step, inch by
| inch, " Is stroke by stroke that our
| Christian character Is buildcd. There
| fore be content to do what God com
| nands you to do. God Is not ashamed
10 do small things, lie is not ashamed
| To he found chiselling u grain of sand,
or helping u honey bee 10 construct ito
| cell with mathematical accuracy, or
| tinging shell In the surf, or shaping
| the bill of u chaf,nch. What God
does, he does well, What you do, do
we'll, be Il u great work or u small
| work II ten talents, employ all the
| ten. II five talents, employ ali the
| five. II one talent. employ the one.
II only the thousund,h part Of u
| talent, employ that. Re thou faith
| ful unto death, aud | will give thee
the crown of life" | tell you IL you
are not faithful 10 tod In n small
sphere, you would be indolcnt and in.
significant In a large sphere.
The Church of Christ, for instance, is
palace. The King Of heaven and
| earth lives in IL, According Ia tho
| bible, her beams are of cedar and her
raftcrs of iir, aud her windows Of
| agate, aud the fountains Of salvation
| dash n rain of light Il Is u glorious
palace the Church of Tod Is; and yet,
sometimes, unsccmly and loathsomr
| things creep MP into it, vil-spcnking,
and rancor, and SANDER and bnckbit-
| ing, and abuse, crawling up on the
walls of the church, spinning u web
| from arch 10 arch, aud from the top of
one communion tanlSard To the top of
another tanlSurd. Glorious palace in
which there ought only 10 be light,
and love, and pardon, and grace; yet u
spider in the palace.
| Well, there are great many people
who look down into The grave as "a
great cavern. They think II Is a thou
sand miles subtcrraneous, and all the
echoes seem to be- the voices of despair,
and the cascades seem Ia he the falling
tears that always fall, and the gloom
OF earth seems coming up In stalag-
mite, and the gloom Of the eternal
world seems descending in the sta.
lactite, making pillars of indcscriba-
Bile horror. The grave is no such
| place Ms that to me, thank God!
Our divine Guide takes us down
into the great cavcrns, and ",
have the lamp to our feet and tho
light to our path and all the echoes In
| The riffs of the rock are anthems, and
an the falling waters are fountains OF
salvation, and, after awhile, we look
up. and behold, the cavern of tho
tomb has become q Kings star cham
| be, And while we are looking ut tho
| pcn,p Of II, an everlasting morning be-
| gin To rise, aud all the tears of earth
cry ,allize into stalagmitc, rising up
in u pillar On the one side,
and all the glorics of heaven
seem 10 be descending in u stalactitc,
making a pillar on the other side, and
you push against the gate that swings
between the two pillars, and, as that
gate flashes open, You find IL is one OF
the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls lBlcSscd he God, that through
this gospel the mammoth cave of the
! scpulchre has become the illumincd
star chamber of the King. Oh, the
palaces. the eternal palaces. the Kings
| pl laceS'