Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-29

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noiuiig an ocean in the hollow of his hand
Soes iorth TO lind heights and depths and
iens.h and breadth OF omnipotency IN a
ue"drop ana dismounts from the cbar;ot
Oh midnight hurricane to cross over on The
suspension bridge OF SPIDERS web. You
may take your telescope and sweep il across
.ne heavens In order to behold the glory If
1od' but shall take the leaf holding the
spider, and the spiders web. and / shall
1rlng the microscope TO my eye. and while
! gaze and look and study and am con-
founded, | will kneel down in the orass
and cry, Great and marvellous are tbv
works, Lord God AImightyp'
NONE ARE TOO WEAK.
Again, my text teaches me that insi0-
nincahce Is no excuse for inaction This
spider that Solomon saw on the wall
might nave said: II can't weave a web
worthy OF this great palace; what can do
AMID all this gold embroidery | am not
aoie TO make anything fit for so grand
place, and so will not work my spinning
Jenny Not so said the spider 1.-THE
spider taketh hold with her hands" Oh.
what lesson that is for you and mel You
say II you had some great sermon TO
preach, If you only had a great audience
to talk to, if you had great army to mar
shall, If you only had constitution to
write, If there was some tremendous thing
in the world for you to do-then you would
show us. Yes, you would show usl
What If the Levite in the ancient temple
had refused 10 snuff the candle because he
could not be high priests What If the
humming bird should refuse to sing its
song into the ear of the honeysuckle be-
cause it cannot, like the eagle, dash its
wing into the SUM- What if the raindrop
should refuse to descend because it is not
a NiagaraY What If the spider of the text
should refuse TO move its shuttle because
it cannot weave Solomon's robei Away
with such folly! If 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 a captain, lieutenant and
colonel. 1t is step by step, it 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 is not ashamed to do small things.
He is not ashamed to be found chiseling
grain of sand or helping a honeybee to
construct its cell with mathematical ac-
curacy, or tingeing shell in the surf, or
shaping the bin of a chaffinch. What God
does he does we'll. What you do, do well,
be it great work or a small work. If ten
talents, employ all the ten. If five talents,
employ all the five. If one talent, employ
the one II only the thousandth part of a
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 a 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;
This is no place for it. If that spider is
determined to weave web, let it do so
down in the cellar Of this palace or in some
dark dungeon Ali the spider of the text
could not be discouraged. 1t 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 are loathsome and repul-
sive get up into very elevated places.
The church of Christ, for instance, is a
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 foun-
/ tains of salvation dash rain of light. 1t
| is a glorious palace-the church OF God IS;
and vet sometimes unseemly and loath-
some things creep up into it-evil speak
ing and rancor and SANDER and backbit-
ing and abuse, crawling up on the walls
! Of the church, spinning web from arch
10 arch. and from the top of one commu-
MON tanlard to the top of another com
munion tankard. Glorious palace in which
there ought only to be light and love and
nardon and grace; yet spider IN the pal
acel
THE CHRISTIAN HOME.
Home ought to be a castle. IL ought 70
he the residence Of everything royal. Kind
ness. love. peace, patience and forbearance
! onpbt to be the princes residing there; ana
vet sometimes dissipation crawls up INTO
| that home and the jealous eye comes up,
and the scene Of peace and plenty becomes
| the scene of domestic jargon and dlsso-
nance You say, "What is the matter
with the homeg' | will tell you what Is
the matter with it. A spider in the palace
1 well developed Christian character Is
Grand thing to look at. You see some
man with great intellectual and spiritual
nronortions. You say; How useful tnat
man must be!' But you find, amid all his
snlandor of faculties there is some preJu-
d;ce some whim, some evil habit that
s GREAT many people do not notice but that
Cor have happened to notice, and it is grad
nally spelling that mans eharacter-is Is
gradually going TO injure his entire iniiu-
ence Others may not see it, but you are
onvio,,s in regard to his welfare, and now
I'm discover it. A dead fly IN the ONT
,nent A spider in the palace
Aoain. my text teaches me that perse-
enc. An",a, viii mount into the kings palace
" Fo, INST have seemed long distance Tor
tbat. spider to climb in Solomon : spienala
residence, but it started at the very loo' ot
t tSe'l vail and went up over the panels OF
In ahanon cedar, higher and higher until u i
stood higher than the highest throne IN al,
H. nations-the throne of Solomon Anu
en ia "a has decreed it that many Of those
,-bo are down in the dust OF SIN ana "a. uis-
I 80, shnl gradually attain to me Aihs