The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-08-31
NUMBER IL

themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come. let US 60 right up and sccost those
on this circle Of heavenly thrones Surely,
they must have killed In battle q million
men Surely, they must have been buried
with all the cathedrals sounding dirge, and
all the towers Of all the cities toliing the ma
ticnai grief Who art thou, mighty one Of
heayeni II lived by choice the unmarried
daughter In an humble home that I might
take care Of my parents IN their old age, and
l endured without complaints all their
queruiousness and administered to all their
wants for twenty years"
Let US pass on round the circle Of thrones.
Who art thou, mighty one Of heayenl Il
vas for thirty years Christian invalid, and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing o
note Of sympathy for those worse on than I,
and was general confidant Of all those who
bad trouble, and once In while was strong
enough 70 make a garment for that poor
family In the back Lanai Pass on to an
other throne Who art thou. mighty one
Of heaveni ~ was the mothel who raised
g 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. 81 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,
ven, on this other thronef "In time Of bitter
persecution owned house In Damascus, a
house on the wall A man who preached
g.
hid him from the assassins, and when
found them breaking in my house and could
no longer keep him safely advised him to fee
for his life, and the basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in 1t, and
! was one who helped hold the rope" And
said, SIS that allP" and he answered, "That
b all" And while was lost In amazement
! heard strong voice that sounded as
though 1t might once have been hoarse from
many exposures and triumphant as though
1t 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 loi it was the very one who had
said: Through window, in basket, was ]
let down by the wall"
Henceforth think Of nothing as insignih-
can't. 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 nail was driven
too near the compass You know how that
nail would affect the compassi The ships
officer, deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship two hundred miles of her right
course, and suddenly the man on the lookout
cried, LAND hol and the ship was halted
within q few yards of her demolition on Man
tucket shoals A sixpenny nail came near
wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold
mighty destinies.
A minister seated In Boston at his table,
lacking a word, puts his hand behind his
head and tits back his chair to think, and
The ceiling falls and brushes 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 a precipice hundred feet r. ". Rob
ertson, the celebrated English clergyman,
said that he entered the ministry from q
train of circumstances started by the
barking Of q dog. Had the wind blown one
way ON certain day, the Spanish lnquisi-
ton would have been established in Eng
land; but it blew the other way, and that
dropped the accused institution with IS 900
tons Of shipping to the bottom Of the sea OF
Hnng the splintered logs on the rocks
Nothing unimportant In your life or mine.
Three thoughts placed on the right side Of the
figure one makes a thousand, end six noughts
on the right side Of the figure one, million,
and our nothingness placed on the right side
may be augmentation ilimitable. An the
ages Of time and eternity affected by the
basket let down from Damascus balcony.