Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-07

throne wiz be many who, though they could
not preael themselves or do great exploits for
God. nevertheless held the rope.
Come. let as 20 right uD 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 ali
the catledraIs sounding dirge and ali tae
lowers OF all line cities tOliug the national
grleL Who art thOV. mighty one IN heaVen2
Il lived by choice tie unmarried daughter in
an humble home that I might take care
OF my parents in their old age, aud I endured
without complaints all their querulOusness
and administered to all their wants for twenty
years"
Let US pass on round the circle Of thrones
Who art .hOu, mighty one of heaven9 ''I was
Tor thirty years Chriatian invalid, and suf-
Tered all the while. occasionally writing a
note OF sympathy for those worse OF than /
ana was general eOnndaut of all those who
had trouble, aud once In a while I was strong
enough 90 make a garment for that poor fam
liy In the back laue.'t Pass on 20 another
throne. Who art thou, mighty Que OF heuvcn3
\ was the mother who raised a whole family
or children for God and they are out in the
world Christian merchants. Christian mechau-
les. Christian wives, and have had lul. re-
ward OF all my toll" Let US pass on IN The
circle Of thrones 81 had a Sabbath-schUO
class, and they were always on nv heart, aud
they all entered the kingdom of GUd and
am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou. the mighty one Of heav-
en- on this other LhrOne2 IN time of bitter
persecution owned house in Damascus, a
preached
christ was nOun0ed from street 10 street, and
hid him from the assassins and when
found them breaking in my house and 1 could
no longer keep him safely, 1 advised him 10
nee Tor his lie, and a basket was let down
over the wall with the maltrea ted man in it.
and was one who helped no d the rope. .
And l said: SIS that ail9'' and he answered.
"Ihut Is all" And while was lost in amaze
aZement, 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 10 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 lie tbfpgs
which are mighty, and base things
Of the world and things which are desDIsed
Aath God chosen, yea, and things which are
not TO bring to Haught things which are.
that no flesh should glory in HIS presence -
and looked TO see from whence the voice
came, and 10! it was the very one who had
said: Through a window, in a basket was /
let down by the WalL''
Henecforth think of nothing as iusfgnif-
cant A liLtle thing may decide your ali A
CunardeF pat cut from England for New
York 1t was wei equipped, but in Duttino
up a stove IN the pilot box a nail was driven
100 near the compass. You know how thai
nail would affect the compass The saID's
officer deceived By that distracted cOmuass
pat the ship two hundred miles OFF her rigbi
course, ana suddenly tue man on The lookout
craeu, Land no. ana The ship was halted
within few yards OF her demolition on Nam
tucket shoals. sixpenny nail came near
Wrecking Cunarder. Small ropes hold
mighty destinies.
a minister seated in Boston at his fable
lacking word puts his hand behind his head
ana tits back his chair TO think, and the cell
Ing falls and brushes the table and wouI
have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at
night by the light OF an insect, called the
candle lly, is kept from stepping over a prec-
ipicc a hundred fest deep. E. W. Robertson.
The eele brated English Clergyman, said thai
lie entered the ministry from train Of cir.
cumstance7 started by the barking Of a dog.
Had the wind blown one way on CERTAIN
day, the Spanish lnQuisition would have been
established in England; but it blew Inc
other way, bnt that IOpued the ac
cursed Institution with seventv-fve thousand
tons Of shipping TO the bottom of the sea OF
flung the splintered logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimuOrIant in your life or mine
Three nOughts placed on the right side of hg
figure one makes a thousand, and six nOughts
Oh the right side of the figure one, Il million,
and our nOthingness placed on the right SIDE
may be augmentation ilimitable. All the
ages of time and eternity affected by the bas
keJ let down from a Damascus balcony.