this house and to this end was letting the wind blow her back and forth. There was a fairly good breeze and she helped increase the swing of the thread by movements of her body. When she swung up even with the ledge, she came about two feet short of it, so she went back down and spun out about a foot more of thread. Then she swung away into the wind but missed the ledge again. After several makings of additional thread the wind blew her so far that she landed on the ledge but she found the window closed. My friend, sitting in his chair, saw the spider just sitting there. He had watched the whole procedure and said to himself, “that spider wants to get in here,” so he left the window closed and cautioned the maid not to open it until he told her to. So Mrs. Spider sat there night and day for three days — she had made a decision! On the third day my friend took pity on her and had the maid to open the window. The spider jumped in right now. Well, you see, she had made a decision to get in and the Lord says to you and to me to be like that spider. The Devil does not want you to get into God’s palace, neither do your as sociates out in the world of sin want you to get in — they will use every scheme to keep you from entering. But watch the spider, she has a wonderful way of getting where she wants to go. So we see that “the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in king’s pal aces.” Now there are other spiders with various other methods of getting where they want to go, but they all starf from the springboard of having made a decision. So we see that to the many outside of Christ, who “want to get into the palace of the King” there will be many avenues of finding the Lord when once you have come to accept the fact that you need Him. I hope that you will! Now EVERY Morning in FRESNO 8:30 A .M .— Monday through Friday KRDU , 11:30 on the dial 10
THE SPIDER SPEAKS (continued) a decision! A friend of mine was sitting in his bedroom and chanced to see a spider out on a tree. The tree was about twelve feet from the side of the house. The spider was hanging from the tree Still Will I Trust (Isaiah 41:10) Still will I trust, though all my hopes lie shattered In broken fragments at my feet; Though all my plans, like driven leaves, are scattered By winds of darkness and defeat. For in my need I hear my Saviour saying, In answer to my pleading and my praying, " I am thy God, be not afraid; I will be near, be not dismayed!" Yea, in the deepest shadows of death's valley, Where sorrows circle me around; When all the powers of darkness seem to rally, And scarce a ray of light is found; Then will I trust in Christ with great* rejoicing, In Him who once again His love is voicing— " I am thy God, be not afraid; I will be near, be not dismayed!" So will I walk with Christ, in faith believing, With childlike trust, whate'er be tide; And from His hand His strength and love receiving, As in His presence I abide. Thus shall I journey on to His glad morrow, Where I shall hear Him say, "Lay down thy sorrow. Come dwell with Me in realms above, Where all Is light, and life, and love." — Albert Simpson Reitz by a thread which she had woven — she pulls the threads, I believe, off the spinerette that is on her hind legs. She walks on her two middle legs and works with her two front ones, they are called her hands. The spider was so eager to get into
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