Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-04

finds them OH the mast as he climbs the rat
lines to disentangle rope in the tempest
and finds them swinging in the hammock
when he turns in. Why not be frank and
acknowledge 1.-THE most of US would long
ago have been dashed to pieces had moi
gracious and loving hands stea lilly and low
ingly. and nightly, held the rope.
But there must come time when we shall
find out who these Damascenes were who
lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them
and all those who have rendered to God and
the world unrecognized and unrecordeo
services. That is going 10 be one of the GLAD
excitements of Heaven-the hunting up and
picking out of those who did good on earth
and got no credit for it. Here the church
has been going on nineteen centuries, and
this is probably the first sermon ever recog
nizing the Sc vices of the people in that Da-
mascus balcony Charles g. Finney said tc
a dying Christian: "Give my love TO st
Paul when you meet him." When you and
1 | meet him, as we will. shall ask him tc
introduce me to those people who got him
out of the Damascene peril.
We go into long sermons 10 prove that we
will be able to recognizes people in Heaven,
I when there is one reason we fail to present,
/
duce u.s. We shall have them all pointed
out. You would not be guilty of the impo
/ likeness of having friends in your parlor not
introduced, and celestial politeness will de-
mand that we be made acquainted with all
/ the Heavenly household What rehearsal
of old times and recital of stirring remi
nscences II others fail to give introduc
! ti1n, God will take us through, and be
fore our first twenty-fOur hours In
I Heaven-if it were calculated by earthly
| timepieces-havep passed, we shall meet and
talk with more heavenly celebrities than in
our entire mortal state we meet with earthly
celebrities. Many who made great noise OF
usefulness will sit on the last seat by the
front door Of the heavenly temple, while
right up within arms reach OF the heavenly
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 ali the cities tolling the
national grief. Who art thou, mighty one
of Heavenl II lived by choice the unmar-
ried daughter in an humble home that
might take care of my parents in their old
age and endured without complaint all
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 Heavenl II
was for thirty years Christian invalid,
and suffered all the while, occasionally
writing note of sympathy for those worst
of than |, and was general confdant of all
In,
was strong enough 10 make a garment for
that poor family in the back lanep Pass
on to another throne. Who art thou,
mighty one Of Heavenl II was the mother
who raised whole family Of children for
God, and they are out in the world Chris
tian merchants Christian mechanics, Chris
tian wives, and | have had full reward of
all my toll" Let us pass on in the circle of
thrones II had Sabbath-school class,
and they were always on my heart, and
they all entered the kingdom of God, and
am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one OF
Heaven on this other thronel In time Of
bitter persecution | owned a house in Da-
mascus, a house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded frop street TO
street, and hid him from the assassns,
and when | found them breaking in my
lsouse and | could no longer keep him
safely, ] advised him TO fee for his life,
and a basket was let down over the
wall with the maltreated man in it, aud |
was one who helped hold the rope.n And
said: lis that alllf and he answered,
THAT is ALL And while l was lost in
amazement, / heard a 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
confound the things which are mighty and
base things OF the world and things witch
are despised 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 lo it was
the very one who had said Through a
window, in basket, was Ilet 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 stove in the pilot box nail was driven
TOO near the compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compass. The ships
officer deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship two hundred miles off her right
'ourse and suddenly the man on the look
out cried Land hot" and the ship was
halted within few yards of her demolition
on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail came
near wrecking a Cunarder, Small ropes
bold mighty destines.
A minister seated in Boston at his table, |
lacking a word puts his hand behind his |
head and tits back his chair TO think, anc |
he ceiling falls and brushes the table and |
would have crushed him. A minister in |
Jamaica at night by the light of an insect, |
aalled the eandle-fiy is kept from stepping |
over a precipice a hundred feet. F. w. |
Robertson, the celebrated English clergy
NAH, said that he estered the ministry from |
a train of circumstances started by the /
parking of dog. Had the wind blown one |
way on a certain day, the Spanish Inquisi-
ton would have been established in En- /
gland; but il blew the other way. aud that
dropped the accused institution with |
twenty-five Thousand tons of shipping to |
the bottom Of the sea, or flung the splintered 4