Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-24
Darkness until It can strIiAe Will its
scirneter of the lightning.

OF q Hy's wing, in the formation of q
fish's scale. in the snowy whitenesso of q
pond lily. love to track his footsteps
IN the mountain moss. and to hear his
voice in the hum of the rye fields. and
discover tho 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 FREELY. '.Let
there be light" and from holding an
ocean III the hollow of his hand, goes
forth to find heights and depths and
length and breadth of omnipotency in a
dewdrop, and dismounts from the char
lot of midnight hurricane to cross over
on the suspension bridge of spiders
web.
You may take your telescope and
cweep it across the 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 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-
ni6cance is no excuse for inaction. This
spider that Solomon saw on the wall
might have said: II can't weave a web
worthy Of this great palace: what can |
do amid all this gold embroidery? | am
not able to make anything fit for go
grand IL place. and SO will not work my
spinning jenny" Not so said the spider.
THE spider taketh hold with her
hands" Oh, what Il lesson that is for
yon and me! You say if you had some
great sermon TO preach, if youonly had
great audience to talk to. if you had a
great army TO marshal, if you only had
q constitution to write, if there was
SOME tremendous thing in the world for
You to do-then you would show rs.
Yes, You would show MS!
WhJt if the Levite in the ancient tenn
pie had refused to snuff the candle be-
cause he could not lie a high priest2
What if the humming bird shouldrefuse
to sing its song into the ear of the honey
suckle becausc it car r., like the eagle.
dash ITS wing into the sun? Whatif the
raindrop should refuse to descend be-
cause it is not IL Niagara? What if the
spider of the text should refuse to move
it's shuttle because it cannot weave
Solomon's robe? Away with such folly!
If yon are lazy with the one talent. you
would be lazy with the ten talents. If
Milo cannot lift the calf lie 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
snd II 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 chiseling
q grain of sand. CT helping Il honeyGee
to construct its cell with mathematical
accuracy. or tingeing shell in the surf,
or shaping the bill of a chafTinch. What
God does, he does well. What you do, do
we'll. be it a great work or asmall work.
If ten talents. employ all the ten. If
five talents. employ all the five. If one
talent. employ the orc. If only the
thousandth l:;.rtcf u 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 il a small
sphere. you would be indolent and in
significant in IL large sphere.
THE HErULsIyE IN HIGH PLACES.
Again. my text teaches mo that re-
pulsiveness and loathsomeness will
sometimes climb mp into very elevated
places. You would have tried 10 have
killed the spider that Solomon saw.
You would have said: This is no place
for it. If that spider is determined ito
weave IL 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. Itclambered
on and climbed up, higher and higher
and higher. until after awhile it reached
the kings vision, and he said, 1.-THE
spider t,keth hold with her hands. and
is in kings palaces" And go it often is
row iI;it things that are loathsome ard
rypoisive get MP into very elevated
places
The church of Christ. for instance, is
IL palace The King of heaven and earth
lives in it. According to the Bible, her
beams are of cedar. and her rafters of
FIR. and her windows of agate, and
the fountains of salvation dash arain of
light. 1t is glorious palace-the e4urch
Of God is, aud yet sometimes unseemly
and loathsome things creep up into. it
twill speaking and rancor and SANDER
and backbiting and abuse. crawling up
Oh the walls of the church, spinning web
from arch to arch, and from the top OF
oae 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 Il spider in the palacel
Home ought to be IL castle. 1t ought
to be the residence of everything royal.
Kindness. love, peace, patience and for
baarance ought to be the. princes resid-
k.g there, and yet sometimes dissipation
crawls up into that home. and the leal-
Gus eye comes up, and the scene of peace
aud plenty becomes the scene of domes-
tic jdrgon and dissonance. You say,
What is the matter with the home" l
will tell you what is the matter with it.
a spider i'll the palace.
A we'll developed Christian character
is a grand thing to look at. You see
some man with great intellectual and
pricitual proportions. You say, "How
useful that man must bel" But you find
amid all his splendor of faculties there
is some prejudice, some whim, some evil
habit that great many people do not