Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-19
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might have said: II can't weave n web
worthy Of this great palace; what can / do
amid all this gold embroidery | am not
able to make anything fit for SO grand q
| place and SO will not work nv summing
| jenny Not. so said the snider .sTbe
| spider taketh hold with her hands % Oh.
| what lesson that Is for Won md mol Won
| say If you had some great sermon ia
preach, IL you only had a great audience
to talk to, If you had great army to mar
shall, If you only had a constitution I'd
write, il there was some tremendous thing
in the world for you to do--then you would
| show u.s. Yes, you would show usl
| What II the Levite In the ancient temple
had refused to snuff the candle because he
could not be high priests What If the
| cumming bird should refuse TO sing its
song into the ear of the honeysuckle be-
cause 1t cannot, like the eagle, dash its
wing into the sum- What IL the raindrop
| should refuse to descend because it is not
| NiagaraP What If the spider Of the text
should refuse to move it's shuttle because
1t cannot weave Solomonis robe2 Away
with such follyi If you are lazy with the
one talent 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
ton, but yon cannot be general until You
have been a captain, lieutenant and a
colonel. 1t is step by step, 1t is inch by
inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Chris
tian character Is builded Therefore be
content to do what God commands you
to do.
God ia cot ashamed to do small thinps
He is not ashamed to be found chiseling a
grain of sand. or helping a honeybee TO
construct its cell with mathematical no
curacy, or tingeing a shell in the surf. or
shaping the bill of a chaffinch. What God
does he does well. What you do. do we'll
be it great work or a small work. If ten
talents, employ all the ten II five talents
employ all the five. If one talent. amr,Iov
the one II only the thousandth part of n
talent, employ that. 'Be thou faithful
unto death. and will give thee the crown
of life." tell you If you are not faithful
to God in small sphere You would be in
dolent and insignificant in a large sphere
Again, my text teaches me that repul-
siveness and loathsomeness will sometimes
climb up into very elevated places. You
would have tried to have killed the spider
that Solomon saw. You would have said.
.oThis il no Mace for IL. IF that snidar ,s
detarmined To vveava n xveh LOT n Az CO
down in the cellar of tbis MALAGA NJ, in Gonna
dark dungeon. Ali the spjder az tba teyt
could NOT he discouraged n cIamhered
nm and climbed mn bipher and biobor
and HIGHER untiT after awhile n raacho5
the lino.,s v;sion and ba aaid .uTba s,;7a~
tokatb hold WITH nor bonds and r. a.,
Eino,, nalacos And 90 A. oftan "a NV,
.has thinl,s ~ a. ona Ioatl sa,,,n "a ~"
Give ',,et nn into ve,.v oIavated n,aoos
Tho church % Christ for INSTANCE 20 n
ralaca Tbo Kino ~ heaven ond oar+h
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taina % salvation dosh y roi,, ~ l;rr,t T.
ia q r,lorioua nalace--the churcb ~ Goa 90.
and yet sometimes nnseanniv and Iootb,
some things Green mn into it-evii sneair.
inc ana rencor and slander md hanir hi.
inc and abuse crawling mn IN the walls
of Tho church eninning n ypeh fro,,, o.cb
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THE CHRISTIAN HOME
Home ouqht to be castle n onpbt to
be the residence of everything roval Kind
ness. love. peaoe. patience and forbearance
ouobt TO be the princes residing there: and
vet sometimes dissipation crawls IN into
that home and the Jealous eve comes mn.
and the scene of peace and plenty becomes
the scene of domestic iargon and disso-
nance You say "What is the matter
with the homepd | will tell you what is
A we'll deyeltped Christian character ia
n grand thing to look at. You see some
man with great intellectual and spiritual
proportions. You say. "ITaw useful that
man must bop But YOU find, amid all his
spIendor of faculties, there is some preju-
dice. some within. some evil habit that a
great many people do not notice, but that
YOU have happened to notice. and 1t is grad
ually spoiling that mans character-it is
gradually going to iniure his entire infiu-
ence. Others may not see it, but you are
anxious in regard to his welfare. and now
Won discover il, A dead fly in the oint-
ment. A snider in the palace.
Again, my text teaches me that perse-
yerance will mount into the kings palace.
II must have seemed n long distance for
that spiderto climb in Solomon's splendid
residence but it 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 1t that many of those
who are down in the dust of sin and dis
honor sh@il sr"du'.liy aVGllh 70 INC hlng
palace "osee IL III worthy 1nings;
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