Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-09-19


All the machinery Of the earth coult
not make anything 80 delicate and beau
tifnl as the prehensile with which tina
| spider clutches its prey. or as any Of IT.
eight eyes, We DO not have 10 90 60 fal
up to see the power Of God in the tapes
| try hanging around the windows o.
heaven, or in the horses or chariots o
fire with which the dying day departs
or TO look at the mountain swinging ou
its sword arm from under the mantle o1
darkness until 1t can strike with itl
sciiueter Of The lishtn Dg.
GOD IN LITTLE THIN03.
love better 10 study God in the SHAPE
Of fiy's wing, Ia the formation of .
tsh's scale. IN the snowy whiteness of Q
pond lily. love to track his footsteps
in the mountain fposs. and 10 hear his
voice III the kuin of the rye fields. and
discover the rustic nf his robo Of light in
the south wind. On. this wonder Of di
vine power that can build a habitatior
for God in an apple blossom, and time q
bees voice until II is fit for the eternal
orchestra, and can say to fir ny, LEI
there be light;" and from lie ling al
ocean in the hollow of his b nd. goe.
forth to find heights and dtoth and
length and breadth of omnipot sncv in q
dewdrop, and dismounts from the char.
lot of inidnighr hurricane to cross ove1
OH the suspension bridge Of spiders
web.
You may take your telea pc and
sweep IL across the heavens ir ord IT I'd
behold the glory of God, bu | shall
take the Leaf holding the spide IN tht
spiders web. aud shall brin rh mi
croscope to my eye, and viii gsize
and look and stndy and am cor'm1lded
will kneel down III the rrass nd cry
Great and marvellous are th w ,rks,
Lord God Alinightyr
Again. my text teaches me Ii at insiI,
nificarce is no excuse for inact. N. Llif
spider that Solomon snw on the. wall
might have said: II can't weave u wei;
worthy Of this great palace: wfatlcan
do amid all this gold einbroide, Z am
not able to make anything i for so
grand u place. and SO will not york my
spiEnirg jenny" not SO said u spider.
"Tle spider taketl hold ' ith her
bands" Oh. what lesson I ,at ia for
yon and mel You say If you lrd some
great sermon TO preach, IL you only had
a great audience to tall, to. il J IN lad a
great army to marshal, If you only had
n constitution to write, IL II ere was
some tremendous thing in The ,yord for
You to do--then you would .aow US.
Yes, you would show usl
Wh5t IL the Levite in the eanc snt tenn.
pie had refused to snuff the CT idle be.
cause he could not he high PRIEST
What If the humming bird should refuse
TO sing its song into the ear Of the honey
suckle because it cannot, like tine eagle,
dash its wing into the sun? w lat IL the
rnindrop should refuse to des end be.
caase it IL ncs n Niagera? VIII If the
ypider Of the text should refuse TO laoye
its shuttle because it cannot 70 n
sjolomon's robeg Away with ST c., follyl
Ii you are lazy with the ono ta ent. you
would be lazy with the ten talents. II
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 a captain. n lieutenant
and u colonel. It is step by :ep, it is
inch 10y 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
n grain Of sand, or helping IL honeybee
to construct its cell with mathematica.
accuracy, or tingeing q shell in the surf,
or shaping the bill Of n chafiincl. What
God does, he does well. What you do, do
well, be it @ great work or small work.
IL ten talents, employ all the ten. If
five talents, employ all the five. II one
talent, employ the one. If only the
thousandth part ofa talent, employ that.
"Ec thou faithful unto death, and u will
give thee the crown Of life." tell you
II you are not faithful to God in a anal'
sphere, you would he indolent ands in.
significant in q large sphere.
THE REpUIsIvE IN HIGH PLACES.
Again, my toxt teaches me that re-
pulsiveness and loathso,neness win
sometimes climb up into very eleva ted
places. You would have tried to have
killed the spider that Solomon saw.
You would have said: ~This is no plat 70
for It, If that spider is determined o
weave web, let it do 80 down in tn, ?
cellar Of this palace. or in some dark
dungeon" Ahl the spider of the text
could not he discouraged It 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 arc loathsome and
repulsive get wp into very elevated
places.
The church Of Christ. for instance, is
a palace. The Is ing of heaven and earth
lives in it. 40 ,ording TO tho Bible, her
beams are OF cedar, and her rafters of
fir, and her windows Of agate. and
tho fountains of salvation dash n rain Of
light. 1t ia n g lorious palace--the church
Of God Is. an yet sometimes unseemly
and loathsom things creep up into it,
evil speaking Z aud rancor and slander
md backbit ing and abuse, crawling up
on the wallis OF the church. spinning web
from arch to arch. and from the top of
one comm union tankard to the top OF
another 90 nmunion tankard. Glorious
palace in which there ought only to be
light and love and pardon and grace;
yet spid or IN the palacel
Homes ought to DO castle, 1t ought
10 be the residence Of everything royal.
kinlnes $, love, peace, patience and for
bearanc ought TO be the princes resid-
ng thd 70. and yet sometimes dissipation