The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05

with such folly. If you are lazy with
the one talent, you would be lazy with
the ten talents. If Milo can not lift the
calf He never will have strens til to lift
the on In the Lords army there is order
for promotions; but you can not be gen.
eral until you have been captain, a
lieutenant and colonel 1t 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 chisel-
ing grain of sand, or helping a honey
bee to construct it's cell with mathemat-
ical accuracy, or tinging a ceD in the
the surf, or shaping the bill OF chat
finch. What God does He does well.
What you do do well, be it great
work or a small work. If ten talents,
employ all the ten. If five talents, en-
ploy all the five. If one talent, employ
the one. If only the thousandth part
of talent, employ that "Be thou
faithful unto death and will give thee
the crown of life." I tell you if you
are not faithful to God in a small sphere
you would be indolent and insignificant
in a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that repul
siveness and loathsomeness will some
times 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" 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 reach
ed the kings vision and he said: 1.-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 into very elevated
places
The church of Christ, for instance, is
palace. The king of Heaven and earth
lives in it. According to the Bible, hei
beams are of silver and her rafters of
fir, and her windows of agate, and the
fountains of salvation dash rain Of
light 1t 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 baclkbiting and abuse,
crawling up on the walls of the church,
spinning a web from arch to arch, and
from the poi 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 il
the palace
Home ought to be castle 1t ought
to be the residence of every thing royal
Kindness, love, peace, patience and for
bearance ought to be the princes rSsid'
ing there; and yet sometimes dfszfpa
tions crawls up into that home, and the
jealous eye comes up, and the scene o.
peace and plenty becomes the scene O
domestic jargon and dissonance. Yor
say: "What is the matter with the
home?" will tell you what is the mat
ter with it. A spider in the palace.
A well-developed Christian character
is grand thing to look at. You SET
some man with great intellectual anC
spiritual proportions You say: ''Hov
useful that man must be-" But YOU
find, amid all his splendor of faculties
there is some prejudice, some within
some evil habit, that great many PEG
pie do not notice, but that you have
happened to notice, and it is gradually
spelling that mans character-it i.
gradually going to injure his entire n
tluence. Others may not see it, bu'
you are anxious in regard to his wei
fare, and now you discover it. A deat
fly in the ointment spider in the
palace.
Again, my text teaches me that per
severance will mount into the Kings
palace. It must have seemed long
distance for that spide- to climb in Sol
omon's splendid residence, but it start
ed at the very foot of the wall and wen
up over the panels of Lebanon cedar
higher and higher, until it stood higher
than the highest throne in all the ma
tions-throne of Solomon. And so Goo
has decreed it, that many of those who
are down in the dust of sin and dishonol
shall gradually attain TO the King
palace. We see it in worldly things
Who is that banker in Philadelphia
Why, he used to be the boy that helt
the horses of Stephen Girard while
the millionaire went in to collect hi:
dividends. Arkwright tolls upon from
BARRIERS shop until he gets into thu
palace of invention. Sextus V. tolls OF
up from the office of swineherd unit
he gets into the palace of Rome
Fletcher tolls on up from the most in
significant family position until he get'
into the palace of Christian eloquence
Hogarth, engrav ing pewter pots for ;
living, tolls on up until he reaches tn,
palace of worid-renowned art Ant
God has decided that, though you ma,
be weak of arm, and slow of tongue
and may be struck through with ;
great many mental and moral deficits
by His almighty grace you shall We
arrive in the Kings palace-not sucl
one as is spoken of in the text
not one of marble-not one adorne,
with pillars of alabaster and throne
of ivory, and fiagons of FURNISHED gol,
but palace in which God is the kin,
and the angels of Heaven are the cup
bearers. The spider crawling up tn,
wall of Solomon's palace was not wortl
looking after or. considering, as com
pared with the fact that we, who arr
| tho worms of the dust NAV at last ne