The Forrest City times., 1888-09-01
PALMAGE IN THE QUEENS DOMINION
The Great Divine Discourses to
 Thousands.

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 Text Great Results May D pend on Small
 Events" - His Beautiful illustration of Pau's Dethront ment at the Gustening
 Gates of Damascus How His Optics We're
 c canssd, and lis Advaoaiion of Gods
 Word Thereafter is 5ofneihirs beyohd
 Parallel.
 GnNsnY, CANADA, August % d-The Rev T. Dewitt Talmage, D D.,of Brooklyn, rreaeh- ed On the camp trCuId ih.s place, 10 day. All Canada Is represented In the immense throngs assembled D. Ta,magc has preached at Grmsby many summers This closes his summer absence. He has preached, lectured and vlsied in thirteen states of the Union this stnmcr, bis audiences numbering
 ten and fifteen thousafl proplc. The Sub. jeci of his sermon here today was Great Results May Depend on Small Events" Dr
 Talmage took for his text: "Thr0ugh a win dow. in a basket, was let down by the wall ."-lI Cor. Ch. 9, V. &, He said;
 Damascus Is a city of white and glistening architecture sometimes called "the eye of the East" sometimes called "a pearl surround cd by emeralds,n at one time distinguished for swords of the best material called Da- msscus blades, and upholstery 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 a flash from the sky which at the same time was so bright 1t blinded the rider for many days and, think so perma- nently Injured his eyesight that this defect Of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterwards speaks of. He started for Ds- maseus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from hs horse be was a changed hp1 hrfs in tls tlil the city was shaken to it's foundation.
 The mayor gives authority for his arrest and the popular cry is, XII himl Kill himi" The city Is surrounded by a high wall and the gates are watched by the police lest the Clllcian preacher. escape Many of the houses are built on the wall, and their balc0- nies projected clear over ane lowered above the gardens outside. IL was customary to hang baskets out Of these balconies and Dull hp fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hlti him now in one place. now in another lie Is no coward, as fifty incidents in his life demonstrate. But be fee,,s ms work Ia not ronc yet, and so he evades assassination. "Is that preacher herepi ihe foamlng mob shout at one house door. 'Is that fanatic herep the police shout at another house door. Sometimes on the street incDgnito he passed through a crowd of clenehed fists aud some times he seeretes himself on tho house-top. At last the infuriase pOpulacs get on sure track Of him They have positive evidence that he Is in tue house of one of ths Chris- tians Inc balcony of whose home Teaches over the wall "Iiere hs isl Here he isl' The toslfetstion aiid blaspheiiiy and hosling of the Iursuers are nt the front door They break in. Fetch out that GGspelzer and let us hang his head on inc city gate. Where Is bef1 The emergency was terrible. Profi- dentially there was good st0ut baske. i'd the house. Paufs friends fastened rope to
 the basket Paul steps into 1t. The basket is lifted 10 the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds on 10 tae rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously slowly but surely, further down and further down until the baskets strikes the earth and the apostle steps out, and afoot and alone starts on that famous missionary tour. the story of which has aston shed earth and heaven Approbriate entry in Paufs diary of travels: 'fhroush window, ih basket was ilet down by the walLh
 Observe, first, on what slender tenure great results hang. The ropemaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew how much would depend on The strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostles life had been dnshed outi What would have become of the Christ ian Churehi All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphllia, Carpadocia Galatia, Macedonia would never have been accom- plished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting part Of tho New Testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so glorlously told as he told 1t That example Of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippl, in the Mediterranean euroclydon, under tagelation and at his be- heading would not have klnded the courage Of ten thousand martyrdoms. But that rope holding that basket how much depended on ttl So again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship Of many thousand tons cross ing the sea have such important passenger as had once boat of leaves from taffrail to stern only i',Tee or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by A coat of biiumen and floating ou the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the Jews on boards What if some of the cattle wading in for drink should sink itl 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 bombarded Sinai at the law-glving. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importancel
 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 out and safe on the ground, but one remains in the eonsun- | ing building That one wakes, and, finding l his bed on dre and the building crumbling
 comes to the window, and two peasants make ladder of their bodies one peasant standing | on the shoulder of the other and down tie human ladder the boy descends--John Yves. l ley If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants ask the millions of Methodists on both sides Of the sea. Ask | their mission stations all around the world. | Ask their hundreds of thousands already as cended to join their founder who would have |, perished but for the living stairs of peasants' l shoulders.
 | An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, 1 and right in tbe midst of surrounding canni- balism and squalor, the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools | and beautiful homes and highest style Of re. l ligion and civilization. For fifty years no missionary and no Christian influence had | landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert Of heathendomi Sixty years before n ship had met disaster and one Of the sail. ! ors unable to save anything else. went to hls l trunk and took out Bible which his mother l had placed there, and swan ashore. the Bible ] held in his teeth, The Book was read on all sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelzcd, and church was staried, and an enlightened common wealth established, and the worlds his
 tory has no more brilliant page than that which tells of this transformat tion 1 of nation by one book. It did not | seem of much importance whether the sailor continued 10 hold the book in his tccth or let | | circumstance depended what mighty results ! Practical inference There are no insign if. canoes in our lives The mlnutest thing is 1 part of magnitude. lnfnity is made up oi infnitesImals. Great things an az gregation of small things. Bethlc- hem manager pulling on stai | In the eastern sky. One book in drenched sailors mouth the evangelizalion Of a multi tude. One boat of rspyrus on the Nile freight. 1 ed with events for all ages. The fate of | Chrstendom in basket let down from win dow on the wall What you do, do well. Ii ! you make a rope make it strong and true, foi | you know not how much may depend on your | workmanship. 1T you fashion boat let it be waterproof for you know not who may sail in it. II you put n E ble in the trunk of your
 boy ss he goes from home, let it be heard in | your prayers, for it may have mission as far | reaching as the book which the sailor carried | in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plain est mans life is an island between two eter- i nites-cternity past ripping against hi: shoulders, eternity 10 come touching his
 brow. The casual, the accidental, that which
 merely happens so. are parts of great plan,
 and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall Is the cable that holds
 to its mooring the ship Of the Church in the
 north east storm of the centuries.
 Again, notice unrecognlzed and unrecOrded
 services Who spun the ropei Who tied il
 10 tbe basketi Who steadied the illustrlou.