New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-05
TAIsMAGE'S SERMON.
1r. Talmags Discourses to the Canadians on the
Camp Grounds at Grimsby.

GRnfsBY, Cam, Aug. &c. The Rev. i
ne Wit sfalmage, D. d. of Brooklyn, preached
on the camp ground, this place, to-day. All
Sahada was represented in the immense
tnrongs assembled. DR.. Talmage has preached
az ua1msby many summers. This closes his
summer absence. He has preached, lectured
saiau visited IN l3 states of the Union this
summer MS audiences numbering 10000
ana e, 900 people. The subject Of his ser.
mon here to-day was aGreat Results Nav
Depend on Small Events. . DR.. Talmapa tooI
1or nus text: Through window, in abasket
was I let down by the wall" II Cor, IL, So.
He said:
damascus is city of white and glistenine
architecture sometimes called s.the eve ofthe
East, sometimes called "a pearl surrounded
w emeraids; at one time distinguished for
swords OF the best material called Dam ascua
blades, and upholstery ofrichest fabric called
ss1amasks. horseman by the name of Paul.
T1ding toward this city, had been thrown
I'm the Saddle. The horse had dropped
fnder flash from the sky, which at the
+ same TIME was SO bright it blinded the ridder
ROT many days, and think SO permanently
injured his eyesight that this defect of vision
oecame the thorn in the flesh he afterwards
speaks OF de started for Damascus to
butcher Christians, but after that hard fall
rom t nus horse ne was a changed man, and
preached Christ in Damascus till the city was
shaken to it's foundation
The mayor gives authority for his arrest.
and the popular cry is ssKill himl Kill him,
The city is surrounded by a high wall, and
She gates are watched by the police lest the
Saeihan preacher escape. Many of the houses
are built on the wall, and their balconies pro-
1ected clear over and lowered above the gar
-dens outside 1t was customary to lower
baskets out OF these balconies and pull I'D
fruits I ana flowers from the gardens. To this
Gay VISITORS at the monastery of NJ cunt Sinai
are lifted and letdown in baskets. Detectives
proved around from house to house looking
1of Paul, but his friends hid him now in one
place, now in another. He issno coward as
20 incidents of his life demonstrate. But he
Saeeis ms work is not done yet, and SO he
teyades assassination. SIS that preacher
s1ere? the foaming mob shout at one house
door lis that fanatic here?" the police
shout at another house door. Sometimes on
the street incognito he passes through
crowd of clenched fists and sometimes he Sc
eretes himself on the house top. At last the
lnfHFlate populace get on sure track Of him.
I a hey have positive evidence that he is in the
Shouse OF one of the Christians, the balcony of
whose home reaches over the wall sssHere he
i ssi Here he ISL The vociferation and bias
| benny and bowling of the pursuers are at
le 4 front door. They break in. ssFetch out
lat Gospelizer, and let us hang his head on
is te city gate Where is he?' The emergency
4 terrible. Proyidentially there was a
Nj I'D stout basket in the house. Paul's
4 lends fasten a rope to the basket Paul
steps into it. The basket is lifted to the
edge of the balcony on the wall, and then
e while Paul holds on to the rope with both
{ hands has friends lower away carefully and
cautiously, slowly but surely further down
aand further down, until the basket strikes
the earth and the apostle steps out, and
satone starts on that famous missionary tour
the story Of which has astonished earth and
Heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary
offrayels: @ Through a window, in basket,
1 was let down by the wall. Y go
Observe, first, on what slender tenure
eat results hang. The ropemaker who 4
listed that cord fastened to that lowering
-isket never knew how much would depend
ln the strength oft. How if it had been
broken and the apostles life had been
#sa'shed2out? What would have become of
Y Christian Church? All that magnificent
missionary work in Pamphilia, Cappadocia,
8Salatia, Macedonia would never have been
accomplished. All his writings that make
q Up 50 indispensable and enchanting part of
ehe New Testament would never have been
written. The story of the resurrection
would never have been SO gloriously told as
Tie told it. Thatsexample Of heroic and tri-
aimphant endurance of Phiippi, in the Medi-
erranean euroclydon, under fagellation
.lftltat his beheading would not have kin
He'd the courage of 1O, 900 martydoms But
hat rope holding that basket, how much
: depended on it'll So again and again great
Pesaits have hung on what seemed slender
circumstances.
Did ever ship of many Thousand tons cross
ng the sea have such imp ortant passenger as
e,zad once aSboat of leaves, from taffrail to
81 srn only three or four feet the vessel made
Rs5sterpra Ut by a. coat ofbitumen and floating
~ -ESiie with the infant lawgiyer of the
laa on board. What if some crocodile
sid crunch it? What if some of the cat
!. ssFading in for drink should sink it?
,9essels of war sometimes carry 40 guns look
ing Through the port-holes, ready to open
&gaattle. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems
SO be armed with all the guns ofthunder that
sombarded Sinai at the law-giving. On how
& agile craft sailed how much of historical
d oortance
he parsonage atsEpworth, England, is on
in the night, and the father rushed
4 through the hallway for the rescue of his
children. Seven children are out and safe on
the ground, but one remains in the ,consum-
ing building That one wakes, and, finding
. his bed on fire and the building crum bling,
comes to the window, and two peasants
make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant
standing on the shoulder of the other, and
down the human ladder the boy descends-
John Wesley. 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 assembled to join their founder, who
would have persisted but for the living stairs
of peasants shoulders.
An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island,
land right in the midst of surrounding can
h nil5alism and squalor, the, passengers dis
4 covered a Christian colony of churches and
schools and beautiful homes and highest
style of religion and civilization. For SO;
years no missionary and no Christian in.
sauenee had landed there. Why this oasis of.
Tight amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty.
years before ship had met with disaster,
and one of the sailors, unable to save any.
thing else, went to his trunk and took out q
Bible which his mother had placed there.
and swan ashore, the Bible held in his
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