REV. IR. TALMAGE The Eminent Brooklyn Diving's San. day Sermon. Sermon in London.) ————— TEXT: “The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces.”—Prove erbs xxx. , US, Permitted as I was a fow davs ago to ante tend the meeting of the British Scientific Association at Edinburgh, I found that no paper read had excited more interest than that by Rev. Dr. MeCook, of American, on the subject of spiders. It seems that my talented countryman, banished from his pulpit for a short time hy ill health, had in ‘the fields and forest given himself to the study of insects. And surely if it is not be- neath the dignity of God to make sprders it is not beneath the dignity of man to stuly them. We are all watching for phenomena, A #ky full of stars shining from January to January calls out not so many remaks as the zing of cne meteor. A whole flock of robins take not so much of our attention as one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve, Things of ordinary sound and sight and occurrence fail to reach us, and yet no grasshopper ever springs, upon our path, no motu ever dashes into the evening candle, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam that pours through the crack of the window siutter, no barnacle on ship's hull, no burr ona chestnut, no limpet clinging to arock, no rind of an artichoke but would teach us a lesson if we ware not so stupid. God in His Bible sets forth for our consider- ation the lily, and the snowflake, aud the locust, and the stork’s nest, and “the hina's Joo, and the aurora borealis, and the ant lis, In my text inspiration opens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne aad the courtier, and while we ara Jooking around upon the magnificence inspiration poiats us to a spider plving its shuttle and weaving its net on the wall. It does noteall us to regard the grand surroundings of the palace, but to 8 solemn and earnest consideration of the fact that “The spider taketh hold with her bands and is in kings’ palaca” It is not very certain what was the par- ticular species of insect spoken of in the text, but I shall proceed to learn from it the ex. quisiteness of the divine mechanism. The king's chamberlain comes into the palace and looks around and seex tie spider on the wall and says, “Away with that intruder,” and the servaut of Solomon's palace comes with his broom and dashes down the insect, saying, "What a loathsome thing it is.” But under the microscopic inspection I fin | it more wondrous of construction than ths embroider.es on the palac: wall and the up- holstery about the windows, All the machinery of the earth could not make anything so delicate and beautiiul as the prebensile with which that spider clutches ita prey, or as any of its eight eyes. We do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry hanging arqund the windows of heaven, or in the horses or chariots of firs with which the dying day departs, or to look at the moun- tain swinging out its sword arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimeter of the lightning. I love better to study God in the shape of a fly's wing, in the formation of a fish's scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lly. I love to track His footsteps in the mount- ain moss, and to bear His voice in the hum of the rye fields, and discover the rustle of His robe of light in the south wind. Oh, this wonder of divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune a bev's voicr until it is fis for the eter. nal orchestra, acd can say to a firefly, “Let there be light.” and from holding sa ocean in the hollow of His band, goes forth to find heights and depths and leazth and breadth of omnipotency in a dewdrop, and dismounts from the chariot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the suspeasion bridge of a spider's web You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God, but I shall take the leaf hoid. ing the spider and the spider's web, and I shall bring the microscope to my eye, and while I gaze and look and study snd am confounded 1 will kneel down in the grass and cry, “Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almigheiy ™ Again, my text teaches me that insignifi- cance is uno excuse for inaction, This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: ‘leans weave a web worthy of this great palace; what can Ido amid all this gold embroidery? I am not able to make anything fit for so grand a place, and so | will not work my spinning jenny.” Notso said the spider. “The spider taketh hold with ber bands.” Ou, what a lesson that is for you and me! You say if you had some great sermon to preacn, if you only had a great audiencs to talk to, if you had a great army to marsbal, if you only had a con- stitution to write, if there was some ‘tremendous thing in the world for you to do ~then you would show us. Yes you would show us! What if the Leviie in the ancient temple had refused to snuff the candle because he could not be a high priest? What if the into the ear of the honeysuckle tau 8 cannot, like the Je, dash its wing into ‘sun? hat is Ayo eed should refuse to {descend because it is not a Niagara? What {if the spider of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave # Bolomon's robe?! Away with such folly! If ‘ are iazv with the one talent, you would tha lazy with the ten talents, If Milo can. lift the ox. jorder for promotion, but you cannot be a general until you have been a saptain, a rieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step, At is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Christian character is builded. There you to do, God is not ashamed to dosmall things. He His not ashamed to be foun chiseling a grain ‘of sand, or helping a honsybee to construct its cell with mathematical accuracy, or tingeing a shell ia the surf. or shaping the bili of a caaffinch. What God does, Hedoes well. What you do, do weil, be ita 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. If only the thousandth part of a talent, employ £. ‘will give thee the crown of life.” I teil you if you are not faithful to God ia a small sphere, oa would be indolent and insignificant in a fo here Again, my text teaches me that repu'sives ness and loathsomeness will sametimos climb up into very elevated places. You would have tried to kill the spider that Soi omon saw, You would have sald: “This is no place for it. If that spider is determined to weave a web, let it do sodowa fu tha cel. dar of this palace or in 80 ne dark dungeon.” ‘Al! the spider of ths text could not be die. ‘oouraged. It clambered on ani climbed up, higher and higher and higher, until after awhile it reaches! the king's vision, and he said, “The solder taketh hold with her bande, and is In kings’ palaces.” Antso it often is now that thingy that are loathsoms and repulsive get up into very elevated oes, The church of Christ, for instancs, is a Jaincn: The King of heaven and earth livas nit. According to the Bible, her beams are of codar, and her rafters of fir, and her windows of agate, and the fountaing of sal. vation dash a rain of light, It is a glorious palace-—the church of God is, cod yet some. times unseomly and loathsoms things areep up into it—evii king and rancor and slander and backbiting and abuse, crawling up on the walls of the church, spinning " web from arch t5 arch, and from the top of one communion tankard to the top of an- other communion tankard, Glorious pal aco in which there ought only to be lighs and love and pardon aud grace; yet aspider in the palace! Home ought to bs a castle, It ouzht to bas the residence of everything royal, Kind. ness, love, peace, patience ani forbearanc) ought to be the princess residing there, and and the scene of peace and plenty becomes You say, “What is the matter with the I will tell you what {s tie matter A spider in the palace, A well developsi Christian character is a You see soms man You say, “How usaful that man portions, | But you flad amid all his ‘splen- great ually going to injure his entire influence, A dead fly in the ointment. spider in the palace. must have ssemod a long distance for that wall ani went up over the panels of ILeba- non cedar, higher ani higher, unt! it stood tions—the throne of Solomon. Ant so God has decreed it that many of thoss who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King's palace, ss it in worldly things. Who Why, he usad to be the boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while the millions airs went in to collect his dividends. Ark wright toils on up from a barber shop une til ba gets into the palace of invention, Sextus V toils on up from the c¢ffice of a swineherd until he gets into the palace of Rome, Fletcher toils on us from the most fosignificant family position until he gets into the palace of Christian eloquence. 0 garth, engraving pewter pots for = living, toils on up until be reaches the palace of world renowne | art, The spider crawling up the wall of Boio- mon's palace was not worth looking after or considering as compared with the fact thse we, whoare worms of the dust, may at lass ascend into the palace of the King Immor. tal. By the grace of God may we all reach it. Ob. heaven isnot a dull place, It is not a wornout mansion, with fadad curtaing and outlandish chairs and cracked ware, though it wera completad but yesterday, The kings of the carth sball bring their honor and glory into it, I do not know but that Carist referred to the real juics of the grape when He said that new wine in our Father's Kingdom, but not the intoxicating stuff of this world’s brewing, Ido not say it is sn: but I have as much right for thinking it is ths other way, At any rate, it will be a glorious banquet, 1 realiy believe the gussia are o ming now, The gates swing open, the guests dismount, tha palace is filling, and all the « balices, flashing with pearl ‘and amethyst and car- buncle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad glori- ous King, “Oh” you say, “that is t50 grand a place for you and me.” No, itis not If a spider, according to the text, could crawl up on the wall of Solomon's palace, shall not our poor souls, through the blood of Christ, mount up from the depths of their sin aud shame, and finally reach the palace of the eternal King? Years ago, with lantaros and torches and A guide, we went down la the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, You may walk fourteen miles and se no sualight, Is is a stupendous place. Some places the roof of the cave is a hun fred feat hizh, The grottoes fliled with weird echoes: cascades falling from invisible height to invisible death, Stalagmites rising up from the floor of the cave, salactites de- scanding from the roof > the cave, joining each other and making pillars of the Al- mighty's scaipturing. There are rosettes of amethyst in halls of gypsum. As the guide bave an aspearancs supernatural and spec tral, The darkness is fearful. Two people, getting lost trom their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were de. mented, and for years sat in their insanity, You feel like holding your bresth ss you walk across the bridges that seem to span the bottomless abyss. The guide throws his calcium light down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rook to rock and from depth to depth, making at every plunge a new revelation of the awful power that could have made such a place as that, A sense of suffocation comes upon you ae that vou are two hundred and suriace of the earth. The guide after awhile takes you into what fs called the “star chamber” and then he says to you, “Sit here.” and then he takes the lantern aud zoes down under the rocks, and it gets darker and darker until the night is so thick that the hand an isch from the eye is unobservable. And then, by kindling one of the lanterns and pacing it in a cleft of the rock thire, is a ceflection cast on the dome of the cave, ar.) there are stars coming out in consteliations—a bril- lant night heavens—and you involuntarily exclaim, “Beautiful! beautiful ™ Then be takes the lantern down in other depths of the cavern and wanders on and wanders off aatil be cones up from behind usally, and it seems like the dawn of the morning until it gets brighter and brighter. The guide is a skilled ven. morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and you stand congratulating yourself! over the spectacle Well, there are a great many people who look down into the grave as a great cavern, They think it is 8 thousand miles subterran- eous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices of despair, and the cascades seem to be the of earth seems onming up in stalagmite, and the gloom of the eternal world seems descanding in the stalactite, making pil- lars of indescribable horror The grave is no such place as that to me, thank God! Our divine guide takes us down into the t caverns, and we have the lamp to our eet and. the ht to our path, and all the echoes in the ri‘ts of the rock are anthems, and all the falling watera are fountains of salvation. and after awhile we look up, and behold! the cavern of the tomb has become a king's star chamber, And while we are looking at the pomp of it an everlasting morning to rise, and all the tears of earth crystallize into stalag- mite, rising up in a lar on the one side, and all the glories of heaven seem to be de- soending in a stalactite, making a pillar on the other side, an! you push against the gate that swings between the two pillars, and as that gate flashes open you find it as one of the twelve tes which are twelve i Ded be God Jans Sarough this mammots cave ol wepuicher Baap tin the illuminated star chsimber of the Kiog! On, the 3 ! the eternal palaces! the Kiug's 1 A GREAT deal of the unoccupied farming land ip the older States is now relatively far above the prices of equal or better land in the newer States which have, within the past few years, been made accessible by railroad building. Agricunlturists, in- stead of remaining on this Eastern high-priced land, find it to their ad- vantage to go further west on cheaper but good land, where railway faelii- ties enable them to reach markets ARABIAN HORSES. | Thess Famous Mteeods ave No Written Podigreoes, | Mr. H. C Merwin, who has written some interesting papers for the At. | lantic Monthly about horses, has a! paper on ‘Arabian Horses” Speak- ing of the pedigrees, he says: i The Arvals have no written pedi- | grees; it is all an affair of memory and of notoriety in the tribe. Certain al- | leged pedigrees of Arablan horses, | couched in romantic language, and | represented as carried in a small Lag | hung by a cord around the animal's | neck have been published: but these | are forgeries, gotten up probably by | horse dealers, Egyptian, Syrian, or | Persian. ‘The breeding of every horse | is a matter of common kuowledge, and It would be impossible for his | owner to fabricate a pedigree so as tu decelve the natives, even if he | were so Inclined. The Bedouins, it | seems necessary to admit, are in gen- | eral great liars; and they will lie (to | & strunger) about the age, the quali- ties or the ownership of a horse, but they will not lie about his pedigree, even when they can do so with im- | punity. To be truthful on this sub. | ject is almost a matter of religion, certainly a point of honor, in the | agesert. How fur back ran, and what Arabian horse? These questions it Is impossible to answer definitely. The Bedouins themselves belisve that Alia created the geuus on their soll. “Ihe or spring of the horse is,” they say ‘ja the hands of the Arab.” This plons be. lief shared by a fe: gener souls in Kagland anil America, a small but devoted band } lantly defend the cause of ian horse against his onlv rival, the modern English thoroughbred, Chief among these faithful was the late Major RB. D. Up who visited the desert himself, and who has re- corded his experiences and his views conciuded that the horse Arabia, **not later than dred ye after the I, fhe did the the do Ri Wils origin of the equine Ou is nis + tot on, ars euns in probability the autl seriously to consid Upton ar apirits, all other breed and nly way flesh in its best and purcst form | £ back head, of ox $299 Major tha ty 1:1 the « io o the fountain the desert BE — Artificial India-Hubber, rise pnt tuRGnrent A New Aout el carbon viously been identifi ducts of the of crude rubber, wis « the volatile ¢ t! fn Dad fos iC AcCkion of mm £ ago the hydro- had pre- ong the pro- tiation Te “10 Years ed lestructiy MS 1 mnoin of turpentine converted into tr el Is 3 i «££ Cle 1¢ action of atic : the (1 8g . } produ od guautity of isopre hae, ing kept a thick and surupy, elastic sulstance fi lumps proved to be are supposed to have the accidental prescuce formic acid iu rubber appears every mur edd ASC WHE Ag( for t * the - to 1 respect 10 the ng and is equally susceplibl zation. The discovery has been fi wad by experiments to ascertain the feasibil- ity of manufacturing rubber turpentine on a commerciul scale. An interesting tleld for experiments has been opened up by this discovery, for if, as is possible, other resint are similarly susceptible of conversion into elastic compounds, products pos- sessing properties of peculiar value may be developed, and in any case the dearth of rubber which has ex- isted for some time in consequence of the wholesale destruction rubber forests is likely to give no further cause for alarm from of The True Cure, There are two ways of dealing with the evils in the world which we justly deplore and wish to abolish: one is to attack and try to break them down forcibly, the other to dissolve or exhale them by the active presence of good. The former of these methods appears #0 much the more direct and obvious In our attention. We see a wrong, and our impulse Is to crush it; we sce injustice, und we loag to exterminate it; we observe an unrighteous institu. tion, and we desire to overthrow fit The slower and less direct method of overcoming evil with good, of substi: tutiog a better way for that which is bad, of devoting the sume energy to bullding up that we would have given to: the work of tearing down, obtains a gradual hold over us only with time and experience. PROVESSIONAL Luse-ball is on ite last legs. It has been worked to death, and there will be uo very gen eral regret at the announcement of the funeral. SRB. a —— Tne man who does not brag on himself usually has reason to. A ————— No Wonder People 8 Well of HOODY, “For a Jong tims | was trouhled with weak stomach, Xne digestion and Dy» I began taking ool’s Harsaparilla and have not felt so well all Mr. R. J. Brondage, over for years, My food ido troubles me now, ¥ ‘a & Ils with very pleas I¢ speak well Jon 't see how t Hawire urger Hook's — Hood's Pills act sll, yet prosptly and aioiently on the iver and bowels, NOLES AND COMMENTS, — Dn. Juriax Avruacs has an article {n the Contempor: ry Review on “Influenza,” of a comparative from the the present based upon his irmunity life of Thik view is of thedisense, The bacillus of influenza, by Preiffer of Berlin, grows first outside human system, It ix not what is the original home of the bacillus, Or why it breeds only forty years, It has been said authorities to be of Russian origin, and to be the result of the wrets hed sanitary condition of portions of that ; But such conditions nlways exist there, while the influenza only eomes at long and irregular intervals, attributed the origin of idemics to the Chinese and 1880: the voed cattle and he inundations is held to have formed every by soma his the vast number of i tocus of decomposition, what we “1 {ussinn Russians themselves cold.” call influenza” the the ““‘Chinese The Chinese origin of the disease, however, is disproved by the fact that not the first country to visited by the epide mic, but the last. call was he nor ng Tur position of the body dur liter. Ary composition has alway & been a matter of great cotcern to authors. Charles Kingsley and numerous other writers of most freely when they stood on thelr feet siowly pacing the room, while one emi kitting nent composer did irk drawing-room bres his ailded iw DOLL upright ina Clair, in an American poet attired finest clothing » i Pars bar Yaal fu x t it ine Veredd HEV purpos i suthoritios Nathan superintendent of this Bun that in the United penditure for public tions is fully 8125.00 lesa than £300 00 000 ~ i, the i, estimates tal ex. charitable institu. $+} Stites the At O00. and is invested ments for carrying institutions. buildings and on the work of Tuene will be aa unprecedented boom in the shipbuilding yards on the shores of the great lakes this winter. It is said that the vessels under contract for the season 1803 will aggregate 47.000 gross tons. Most of them will be constructed of steel or fron, the day of the wooden ship on those fresh water seas having The tendency also is towards great carrying éapacity, but it has not had the effect of dis ouraging building, as was predicted by the smaller shipping firms. On the contrary, even they — come to the conclusion y speed and convenience over the service, He | | from this year's crops, and has several with oats in the shock. Mr, Wadley's experiments in raising corn are interesting. The rows in a part of his crops are six feet, another seven feet, and another ten feet apart. The corn in the ten-feet rows was given eighteen inches best yield, Mr. Wadley's iden is that corn must have plenty of room for the air and Nght to strike it. Tue September issue of Seribner's Magazine may be called an American Number, Every contribution is by an American, Provesson Warnace of Edinburgh tells the British Assoviation, in session at London, that, sccording to his belief, the American wheat trade with Europe i There is a new idiot in manifests himself on the He way. and that he is showing it in His not too large to becarried ly in one hand. rap diy along the Th gives a sudden start, But the the fool-killer has in store Chicago Times ct i — ———— A WOMAN 18 never so apt from the table, without a backward thought of the dishes. get up No man who wears a long his cual, eee Foundat an for n *Four raiiraads, cue a beit line Of ipe- ling TRE 5B sald Jay A. Dwiglon & 1 they founded Griffith factories located at one are going up * ay sare § daily The deepest perpeadicalar shaft Kample Paciinge Met 2 ‘ed ¥ Addross mall Bile Leas NeW buried city ha near Ironton, Olio. : 43 Constipation curesd | A shower of flies fel! 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