Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-27
GREAT In TRIPLES.
THB IMPORTANT RESULTS THAT DEPEND
ON SMALL THINGS.
DR.. falmsse's Eloquent SermOn Preached at
Grimsby, Canada, Ysstsrday-Paul's Narrow
Escape from the City Of Damascus
They Held the Rope.

Escape from the City Of Damascus
They Held the Rope.
Special telegram 10 The Register.
GRIMsBY, CANADA, August 26.-The
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., of Brook
yn, preached on the camp ground, this
place, to-day. All Canada is represented
in the immense throngs assembled DR..
has preached at Grimsby many
summers. This closes his summer ab-
,ence. He has preached, lectured and Wis
ted in thirteen States of the Union this
summer, his audiences numbering ten and
fifteen thousand people. The subject Of
MS sermon here to-day was "Great Results
May Depend Upon Small Events" DR..
took for his text: Through a
in basket, was 1 let down by
he wall" Second Cor, ch. 9, v. 33. He
aid:
Damascus is city of white and glirten-
ng architecture sometimes called the
,ye of the East" sometimes called "a
pearl surrounded by emeralds," at one
lime distinguished fc swords of the best
material called Damascus blades, and up
,olstery of richest fabric called damasks.
A horseman by the name Of Paul, riding
toward this city, had been thrown from
The saddle. The horse had dropped under
, flash from the sky, which at the same
lime was 80 bright it blinded the rider for
many days, and, I think 30 permanently
injured his eyesight that this defect of
vision became the thorn in the flesh he af-
speaks of. He started for Dsmas-
Gus to butcher Christians, but after that
hard fall from his horse he was a changed
man and preached Christ in Damascus till
the city was shaken to its foundation.
The mayor gives authority for his arrest,
and the popular cry is, Kill him! Kill
mimi" The city is surrounded by high
wall, and the gates are watched by the po-
lice lest the Cilician preacher escape:
Many of the houses are built on the wall,
and their balconies projected clear over
and hovered above the garden outside. 1t
was customary to lower baskets out Of
these balconies and pulLup fruits and
lowers from the gardens. To this day
visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai
ire lifted and let down in baskets. De.
sectives prowled around from house to
house looking for Paul, but his friends hid
him, now in one place, now in another.
He is no coward, as fifty incidents in his
ife demonstrate. But he feels his work is
,ot done yet, and so
HE EYADEs ASSASSINATION.
as that preacher hereP" the foaming
mob shout at one house door. "Is that
anstic here?" the police shout at another
louse door. Sometimes on the street in
,ognito he passes through a crowd of
,lenched fists, and sometimes he secretes
himself on the housetop. They have posi-
i've evidence that he is in the house of one
# the Christians, the balcony of whose
iome reaches over the wall. Here he is!
Here he az" The vociferation and BIAS
,hemy and bowling of the pursuers are at
he front door. They break in. "Fetch
'ut that gospelizer, and let us hang his
read on the city gate. Where ia he?"
The emergency was terrible. Providen-
tally, there was good stout basket in the
house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the
,asket. Paul steps into it. The basket is
lifted to the edge of the balcony on the
vail, and then, while Paul holds on
% the rope with both hands his friends
over away, carefully and cautiously, slow
y but surely. further down and further
lown, until the basket strikes the earth
md the apostle steps out, and afoot and
llone starts on thst famous missionary
our, the story of which has astonished
'arth and heaven. Appropriate entry in
naul's diary of travels: Through a win.
low, in basket, was / let down by the
WALL"
PAUL's GREAT WORK.
Observer, first, on what slender tenure
,reat results hang. The ropemaker who
visited that cord fastened to that lowering
basket never knew how much would de-
pend on the strength of it. How if it had
been broken and the apostles life had been
dashed out? What would have become of
he Christian Church? All that magni-
icent missionary work in Pamphilia, Cap
Dadocis, Galatis, Macedonia would never
nave been accomplished. All his writings
hat make up so indispensable and en-
part of the New Testament
would never have been written. The
story of resurrection would never
have been 80 gloriously told as he told ii.
That example Of heroic and triumphant
endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterra-
mean curoclydon, under fagellation and at
his beheading would not have kindled the
courage of ten thousand msrtyrdoms. But
that rope holding that basket, how much
depended on it! So again and again great
results have hung on What seemed slender
Did ever ship Of many thousand tons
crossing the sea have such important pas
,suger as had once boat of leaves, from
taffrail to stern only three or four feet, the
vessel made waterproof by coat of bitumen
aud floating on the Nile with the infant
lswgiver Of the Jews on board. What if
some crocodile should crunch il? What if
some Of the cattle wsding in for drink
should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes
carry forty guns looking through the port
holes, ready to open battle. But that
Tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed
with all the guns of thunder that bonn
barded Sinai at the law giving. On how
fragile craft sailed how much of historical
DEPEND ON SMALL THINGS.
The parsonage at Epworth, England, is
On fire in the night, and the father rushed
through the hallway for the rescue of his
children. Seven children are ont and safe
On the ground, but one remains in the
building. That one wakes,
and, finding the bed ON fire and the build
ing crumbling, comes to the window, and
two peasants make q rope out of their
bodies, one peasant standing on the
shoulder of the other, and down the hu-
man ladder the boy descends-John Wes-
ley. II you could know how much de-
pended on that ladder Of peasants ask the
millions of Methodists on both sides of the
yea. AK their mission stations all around
the world. Ask their hundreds Of thous-
ands already assembled to join their found
sr, who would have perishsd but for the
living stairs of peasants' shoulders.
An English ship stopped at Pitcairn
leland, and right in the midst Of surround
l.