Milford chronicle., 1907-06-07

most wonderful symbol Of gospel
restoration which is to be found in the
spider reproducing one of its broken
limbs injured in battle. 1t is the gos-
pei symbol which says. Though a man
has sinned seventy times seven-aye,
though he may have sinned seven hun
dred times seven hundred and has
seemed 10 smash all his earthly gospel
usefulness forever yet by the grace of
God that sinner may be spiritually re-
created and do valiant service for the
Master before he dies"
A More Wonderful Fact.
Now, a spider has marvellous power
of recreation in many ways. Wonder
ful is the spiders ability to fix a bro
ken web. If on account of the rain a
falling stone snaps some of the threads
and entangles them like a snarled mass
of twine, the spider waits patiently
until the storm is over and fair wealth
er is at hand. The spider cannot af-
ford to waste any of her precious
thread, but she always has enough
thread to do her legitimate work. Like
the mamma in the wilderness, there is
always enough food for each day, but
not enough food for two days in the
one gathering, so as soon as the clear
weather comes the spider gets to work
to repair the broken web, and one Of
the best signs of clear weather is the
activity of the spider Mt work. Won
derful also is the cleanliness Of the
spider. When the winds sweep the
dust in great clouds over her web at
once she goes to house cleaning. The
spider knows what a good many house
wives do not knOw-that it is important
to keep herself clean as well as a clean
home. With all her hideousness she IS
as particular about her looks and as
neat as a kitten which is continually
washing the fur with her tongue as she
purs by the kitchen stove, but more
wonderful than all is the spiders abili-
ty to reproduce an injured member of
her body. If one of her legs is snapped
off in battle she Immediately proceeds
to grow another leg. The new leg may
not be as long and as strong as the lost
leg, but still it is leg, and with it she
is able to go on and live her life and do
her life work. Oh. that men and wo-
men who have been worsted in the bat
tie Of sin could realize that when they
are saved by the grace Of God Christ
will recreate them and renew them,
and ut once they can and must 90
forth in the Masters service and do
something for him.
The arachnOid group. to which the
spiders belong, can be traced back as
to their name to a Grecian mytholog-
ical maiden Arachne. She was Of NOR
tai birth and was known far and wide
for her wonderful skill In weaving and
embroidery. One day she challenged
Minerva, the goddess Of wisdom, to a
trial of the liberal arts Minerva, in
the guise of an old woman, tried to
dissuade her in vain. The goddess
then threw off her disguise and the
competition began. Faster and faster
went the fingers. Arachne, in her
pride, wove in her cloth a picture Of
the failures and the helplessnesses and
the sins of the gods, as some of US
try to justify our sins by complaining
of the injustice of our hard lot. Miner
va, angered by Arachne's presumption, |
changed the taunting maiden into the |
form of a spider, so that, despised Of |
all mankind, she might go on spinning !
and weaving forever.
Oh, is that to be our fate? Shall we
blaspheme against and turn our backs |
upon the Saviour's pleadings for the |
higher life and have him say, depart /
from me, for l know you not" Or |
shall we be like a spider which taketh |
hold with her hands and is in kings I
palaces? Shall we not dwell in the
kings palaces of Gods love? Shall |
we not stop living In the dark caverns
Of sin? Shall we dwell in the kings F.
palaces Of a Savlours atonement,
where he will guard us and bless US
and keep us forever with him? 1t
rests entirely with us where we shall
dwell through eternity. For today the
Divine King bids us come and dwell
with him in his earthly and heavenly
palaces.
copyright, 1907, by Louis Klopsch.I