"Well," he went on again, "the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." When he got to the spider, I said, "I don't like that at all; I don't like the idea of being compared to a spider." "But," he said, "If you go into a king's palace, there is the spider hanging on his gossamer web, and look-down with scorn and contempt on the gilded salon; he is laying hold of things above. And so every child of God ought to be like the spider, and lay hold of the unseen things of God. You see, then, my brethren, we who are God's people are like the ants, the conies, the locusts, and the spiders, little things, but exceeding wise." I put that down in the margin of my bible, and the recollection of it does me as much good now as when I first heard it. A friend of mine was in Edinburgh and he heard one of the leading Scotch Presbyterian ministers. He had been preaching from the text, "Every eye shall see Him," and he closed up by saying: "Yes, every eye. Adam will see Him, and when he does he will say: 'This is He who was promised to me in that dark day when I fell;' Abraham will see Him and will say: 'This is He whom I saw afar off; but now face to face;' Mary will see Him, and she will sing with new interest that magnificat. And I, too, shall see Him, and when I do, I will sing: 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.'" ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES. Turn to Exodus 6:6-7-8. In these verses we find seven "I wills." _I will_ bring you out from under the burden of the Egyptians. _I will_ rid you out of their bondage. _I will_ redeem you with a stretched-out arm. _I will_ take you to me for a people. _I will_ be to you a God. _I will_ bring you in into the land [of Canaan]. _I will_ give it to you for a heritage. Again: Isaiah 41:10. "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Mark what God says: He is _with_ His servant. He is his _God_. He will _strengthen_. He will _help_. He will _uphold_. Again: Psalm 103:2: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." If you can not remember them all, remember what you can. In the next three verses there are five things: Who _forgiveth_ all thine iniquities. Who _healeth_ all thy diseases. Who _redeemeth_ thy life from destruction. Who _crowneth_ thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. Who _satisfieth_ thy mouth with good things. We can learn some things about the mercy of the Lord from this same Psalm: v. 4.--Its quality, "tender." v. 8.--Its measure, "plenteous." v. 11.--Its magnitude, "great," "according to the height of the heaven above the earth." See margin. v. 17.--Its duration, "from everlasting to everlasting."