New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-05


the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn
peach. The plainest mans life is an island
DebWeen Two eteTnItles eternity past ripping
against his shoulders, eternity to come touch.
ing his brow The casual, the accidental
tnat which merely happens so, are parts Of q
great plan, and the rope that lets the fugi-
tive apostle from the Damascus wall is The
cable that holdsto its nooring the ship Of
the Church in the northeast storm of the
I-centuries. Is. IA
Again notice unrecognized and unrecorded
services. Who spun the rope? Who tied it
to the basket2 Who steadied the illustrious
preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed
not muscle Of the arm or dismissed an
anxious look from his face until the basket
touched the ground and discharged its
/ magnificent cargo? Not one of their names
has come to us, but there was no work that
day IN Damascus or in all the earth COM
/ pared with the imp ortance of their work.
/ What ifthey had in the agitation tied 8 knot
/ that could slip? What if the sound Of q mob
at the door had led them to saw:
i Paui must take care of himself. and Ne
Will take care of ourselves No, mol
They held the rope, and in doing so did
more Tor the Christian church than any
| Thousand OF US will ever accomplish. But
GOD knows and has made eternal record Of
their undertaking. And they know. How
exultant they must have felt when they read
his letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians.
to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the
philippians, to the Colossians, to the Thessa-
ionIans, to Time thy, to Titus, Philemon,y to
the Hebrews, and when they heard how he
walked out of prison with the earthquake
unlocking the door for him, and took COM
| mand of the Alexandrian corn-ship when the
sailors were nearly scared to death, and
preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix
| Oh his Judgments seat. j hear the men and
women who help him down through the win
In o,,1 IL
over the matter and saying: "HoW gladI
am that we effected that rescued In coming
tlmes others may get glory of Pauls work,
but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction Of
knowing that We held the rope"
There are said to be about 900 minis
tiers of religion in this country. About 5O,-
600, ] warrant, came from early homes which
had to struggle for the necessaries of life.
The sons ofIich bankers and merch ants gen.
orally become bankers and merchants The
most offthose who become ministers are the
sons ofthose who had terrific struggle to get
their everyday bread. The collegiate and
theological education of that son took every
luxury from the parental table for eight
years. The other children were more scantily
appareled. The son at college every little
while got q bundle from home. In it were
the socks that mother had knit, sitting up
late at night, her sight not as good as once
it was. s.
And there also were some de1icacies from
the sister 8 hand for the Voracious appetite
of a hungry student. The father swung the
heavy cradle through the wheat, the sweat
rolling from his chin believing every step of
the way, then sitting down under the cherry
tree at noon thinking to himself: 81 am
fearfully tired, but 1t will pay if can see that
boy through college, and if / can know that
he will be preaching the gospel after I am
Dead, The younger children want to know
AM h.avn hica hot
do, and the mother says: Be patient, my
children, until your brother graduates
and then you shall have more luxuries,
but we must see that boy through. y
The years go by, and the son has been or
dained and is preaching the glorious gospel
and a great revival comes, and souls by
scores and hundreds accept the gospel from
the lips of that young preacher, and father
and mother, quite old now, are visiting the
son at the village parsonage, and at the.
close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing, father
mother retire to their room, the sonflighting
the way and asking them if he could do any
thing to make them more comfortable, say
ing if they want anything in the night Just
to knock on the wall. And then all alone
father and mother talk over the gracious in.
1uences OF the day, and say: E
We'll, it was worth all we went through to-
educate that boy. 1t was a hard pull but
we held on till the work was DONE The
world may not know it, but, mother, we held
the rope, didn't WEI" And theyoice, tremu-
lous with joyful emotion, responds: eyes
father; We held the rope, feel my work is
depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy
salvation. !" sPshaWp says the father, ssI
never felt SO much like living in my life as
now. want to see what that fellow is go-
ing on to do, he has begun SO well. 2 81. re
Something occurs to me quite personal. I
was the youngest Of a large family of chill
dren. My parents were neitherrich nor poor;
four Of the sors wanted collegiate edu..
cation, and four obtained it, but not with
out great home struggle. We never heard
the old people say once that they were deny
ing themselves to affect this, but I remem-
Der now that my parents always looked
tired. l don't think that they ever got
rested es, until they lay down in the Sommer-
vile e, cemetery My mother would sit down
know what makes me feel SO tired!' Father
would fall Immediately to sleep, seated by the 4
evening stand, overcome with the DAYS
fatigues. One of the four brothers, after
preaching the gospel for about fifty years
entered upon his heavenly rest. Another Of
the fouris now on the other sido of the
earth, missionary of the CROSS Two of
US are In this land in the holy ministry, and
l think all of us are willing to ackno Wedge
our obligation to the old folks at home.
About 81 years ago the one, and about "a
the other, put down The burd ems Of this life
but they still hold the rope.
0, men and women here assembled, you
brag sometimes how you have fought your
way in the world, but j think there have been
helpful influence that you have never fully ac-
knowledged. Has there not been some in
f1uence IN your early or present home TIL at
the world cannot see? Does there not reach
to you from among the Canadian hills, or