Milford chronicle., 1888-08-31

and that is better than all--God viii intro
duce us We shall have them all pointed
out. You would not be guilty OF the impo-
hteness Of having friends in your parlor not
introduced, and celestial politcncSs will de
mand that we be made acquainted with all
the heavenly household What rehearsal Of
old times and recital of stirring "reminiscences.
If others fail TO give introduction,
God viii take us through, and before
our first twenty-four hours in heaven
if it were calculated bt earthly timepieces
have passed, we shall meet and talk with
more heavenly celebrities than in our entire
mortal state we met with earthly celebrities.
Many who made great noise Of usefulness
will sit ON the last seat by the front door Of
the heavenly temple, while right up within
arms reach Of the heavenly throne will be
many who, though they could not preach
themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope
Come, let us so right up and accost those
on this circle Of heavenly thrones. Surely,
they must have killed in battle a million
men. Surely, they must have been buried
with all tho cathe,irals sounding dirge, and
all the towers of all the cities tollng the ma
tional grief Who art thou, mighty one Of
heaven3 Il lived by choice the unmarried
daughter in an humble home that / might
take care Of my parents in their Old age, and
1 endured without complaints all their
querulOusness and administered to all their
wants for twenty years
Let us pass ON round the circle Of throRos.
Who art thou, mighty one Of heaven? L
was for thirty years Christian invalid, and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing 4
note Of sympathy for those worse OF than I,
and was general conddant Of all those who
had trouble, and once in while / was strong
enough TO make garment for that poor
family in the back lane.n Pass on to an
other throne. Who art thou. mighty ono
Of heaven3 ~ was the mothel who raised
a whole family of children for God and they
are out in the world Christian merchants,
Christian mechanics Christian wives, and
have had full reward Of all my toil.n Let US
pass ON in the circle of thrones. II had
Sabbath school class, and they were always
on my heart, and they all entered the king
dom Of God, and am waiting for their ar
rival"
But who art thou, the mighty one Of hea-
ven, on this other throne! "ln time Of bitter
persecution / owned d house III Damascus, a
house on the wall. a man who preached
Christ was bounded from street TO street. and
l hid him from the assassins, and when |
found them breaking in my house and 1 could
no longer keep him safely advised him 20 flee
for his life, and the basket was let down over
the wall with the multreated man in it, and
/ was one who helped hold the rope" And l
said, SIS that all.' and he answered, THAT
is alLn And while l was lost in ama2ement
l heard a strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse from
many exposures and triumphant as though
it might have belonged to one Of the
martyrs, and it said; mot many mighty
not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world 20 con-
found the things which are mighty, and base
things of the world and things which are de
spised hath God chosen, yea, and things which
are not to bring TO naught things which are,
that no flesh should glory in his presence"
And looked to see from whence the voice
came, and 10! it was The very one who had
said: Through window, in a basket, was 1
let down by the wall.n
Henceforth think Of nothing as insiguif-
cant. A little thing may decide your all
A Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was well equipped, but in putting
up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compassl The ships
officer, deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship two hundred miles off her right
course, and suddenly the man on the lookout
cried, Land hol and the ship was halted
within a few yards of her demolition on Nan
tucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near
wrecking a Cuuarder. Small ropes hold
mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word, puts his hand behind his
head and tilts back his chair to think, and
the ceiling falls and crushes the table and
would have crushed him. A minister in
Jamaica at night by the light of an insect,
called the candle fly, is kept from stepping
over precipice n hundred feet f. W. Rob
ertson, the celebrated English clergyman,
said that he entered tho ministry from u
train Of circumstances started by tho
barking OF a dog. Had the wind blown ono
way on certain day, the Spanish Inquisi-
ton would have been established in Eng
land; but it blew the other way, and that
dropped the accursed institution with 5000
tons Of shipping to the bottom of the sea or
flung the splintered logs on the rocks
Nothing unimpOrtant in your life or mine
Three noughts placed on the right side Of the
figure one makes a thousand, and six noughts
On the right side Of the figure one, u million,
and our nothingness placed ON the right side
may be augmentation illimitable. All the
ages Of time and eternity affected by the
basket let down from a Damascus balcony.