Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-22

voice in the hum Of the rye fields, and
discover the rustic of His robe of light in
the south wind Oh, this wonder of di-
vine power that can build habitation
for God in an apple blossom, and tune a
bees voice until it is fit for the eternal
orchestra, and can say to a FREELY, Let
there be Light and from holding an
ocean in the hollow Of His hand, goes
forth to find heights and depths and
length and breadth of omnipotency in
deWdrop, and dsmounts from the char
lot of midnight hurricane to cross over
on the suspension bridge Of spiders
web.
You may take your telescope and
sweep it across the heavens in order to
behold the glory of God, but shall take
the leaf holding the spider aud the
SPIDERS web, and / shall bring the mi
| croscope to my eye and while 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 insig-
niticance is no excuse for inaction. This
I spider that Solomon saw on the wall
might have said: 81 can't weave a web
worthy CT this great palace: what can
do amid all this gold embroidery? | am
not able to make anything fit for SO
grand place, and so | will not work my
spinning jenny Not so, said the spider.
THE spider taketh hold with her hands"
Oh, what a lesson that is for you and
me! You say that if you had some great
sermon to preach, if you only had a great
audience to talk to, if you had Il great
army to marshal, if you only had a con-
stitution to write, if there was some ire
mendous thing in the world for you to do
then you would show us. Yes, you
would show US!
What if the Levite in the ancient tenn
pie had declined to snuff the candle be-
cause he could not be a high priest?
What it the humming bird should refuse
to sing its song into the ear or the honey
suckle because it cannot, like the eagle,
dash it's wing into the sun? What if the
raindrop should refuse to descend be-
cause it is not a Niagara? What if the
spider of the text should refuse to move
it's shuttle because it cannot weave a
Solomon's robe? Away with such folly!
II 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
ton, but you cannot be a general until
you have been captain, lieutenant
and a colonel. It is step by step, it is
inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that
our Christian character is bulded.
Therefore be content to do what God
commands you to do.
&C is not ashamed to do small things.
He is not ashamed to be found chiseling
a grain of sand, or helping a honeybee to
construct it's cell with mathematical &C
l,>l
shaping the bill Of a chatlinch, What
God does, he does well. What
you do, do we'll. be it II great work or Il
small work. If ten talents, employ all
the ten. Ii five talents. employ all the
five. If one talent, employ the one. II
only the thousandth part of a talent, en-
ploy that. BE thou faithful unto death,
and [ will give thee the crown of life. ;"
| tell you if you arc not faithful to God
in q small sphere, YOU would be indo-
lent and insignificant in a large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that per-
severance will mount into the king S
palace 1t must have seemed q long dis
tance for that spider to climb in Solo
mons splendid residence but il started
at the very foot of the wall and went up
over the panels of Lebanon cedar, higher
and higher, until it stood higher than
the highest throne in all the nations
the throne OF Solomon. And so God has
decreed it that many of those who are
down in the dust of sin and dishOnOr
shall gradually attain to the Kings pal
ace. We see it in worldly things.
Who is that banker in Philadelphia?
Why, he used to be the boy that held
the horses of Stephen Girard while the
millionaire went in to collect his divi-
dcnds Arkwrieht tolls on up from a
BARRIERS shop until he gets into the pal
ace of invention. SeXtus V tolls on up
from the Office Of a swineherd until he
gets into the palace OF Rome. Fletcher
tolls on Up from the most insignificant
family position until he gets into the
palace of Christian eloquence. Hogarth,
engraving pewter pots for a living, tolls
on up until he reaches the palace of
world renowned art.
And God hath decided that though
you may be weak Of arm and slow Of
tongue, and be struck through with d
great many mental and moral deficits,
by his almighty grace You shall yet ar
rive III the Kings Palace-not such an
one as is spoken Of in the teXt-not one
of marbe-not one adorned with pillars
Of alabaster and thrones of ivory and
tlagons of FURNISHED gold--but "a palace
in which God is the King and the angels
of Heaven are the cupbearers
The spider crawling up the wall of Sol
onions palace was not worth looking
after or considering as compared with
the fact that we, who are worms Of the
dust, may at last ascend into the palace
of the King Immortal BY the grace of
God may we all reach it. Oh, heaven is
not dull place. 1t is not WORKOUT
mansion, with faded curtains and out
landish chairs and cracked ware. No:
it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
though it were completed but Yesterday.
The kings Of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it.
A palace means spendor of apart
meuts. Now, i do not know where
heaven is, and / do not know how it
looks, but il our bodies arc to be resur
rected in the last day [ think heaven
mn ST have a. material SDicnOOr as wei! as