Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-27

God will take US through, and before
our first twenty-four hours In heaven
if it were calculated by 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 lass seat by the front door of
the heavenly temple, while right up within
arms reach of the he venly throne will be
many who, though they could not preach
! themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let us go 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 the cathedrals sounding dirge, and
all the towers of all the cities tolling the ma
tional grief Who art thou, mighty one Of
heaven' II lived by choice the unmarried
daughter in an humble home that | might
take care of my parents in their old age, and
l endured without complaints ali their
querulousness and administered to all their
wants for twenty years"
Let us pass On round the circle of thrones
Who art thou, mighty one Of heavenf i
was for thirty years Christian invalid, and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing q
note Of sympathy for those worse of than /,
and was general confidant Of all those who
had trouble, and once in a while was strong
enough 10 make garment for that poor
family In the back lane.n Pass on to an
other throne. Who art thou. mighty one
of heaveni 81 wcs the nothe. 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 toll" Let US
pass on in the circle of thrones. 'T had a
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-
yen,. on this other thronei "In time of bitter
persecution owned house in Damascus, a
house on the. wall. A man who preached
Christ was bounded from street to street, and
hid him from the assassins, and when |
found them breaking in my house and could
no longer keep him safely advised him to flee
for his life, and the basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in it, and
was one who helped hold the rope.n And
said, sis that allr' and he answered, .'That
is alLn And while was lost in amazement
l heard 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: "Not many mighty,
not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to 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 lol it was the very one who had
said: Through window, in basket, was /
let down by the wall"
Henceforth think of nothing as insignif-
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 tine compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compassi 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 few yards of her demolition on Nam
tucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near
AOpcS uO.u
mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking q 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 hundred feet. F. w. Rob
ertson, the celebrated English clergyman,
said that he entered the ministry from a
train of circumstances started by the
barking Of a dog Had the wind blown one
way ON a certain day, the Spanish lnquisi-
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 thousand, and six noughts
on the right side of the figure one, a 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 Damascus balcony.