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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 a dirge and all the overs Of
all the cities tolling the national grief.
Who art thou, mighty one of heaven2
IL lived by choice the unmarried daugh-
ter in an humble home that / might take
car of my parents in their old age, and
| endured without complaints all their
querulousness and administered to all
their wants for twenty years"
Let us pass oil round the circle Of
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one Of
heaven? Il was for thirty years a Chris
tan invalid, and suffered all the while,
occasionally writing a note of sympathy
for those worse Off than |, and was gen.
eral confidant of all those who had
trouble, and once in a while | was strong
enough to make a garment for that poor
family in the back lane" Pass on to
another throne. Who art thou. mighty
n Of heaven? Il was the mother who
raised a whole family of children for God,
and they are out in the world Christian
merchants. Christian mechanics, Chris
tan wives, and l have had full reward
of all my toll" Let us pass on in the
circle of thrones. Il had q Sabbath
school class, and they were always ON my
heart, and they all entered the kingdom
of God, and ! am waiting for their ar
rival"
But who art thou, the mighty one of
heaven on this other throne? ''ln time OF
bitter persecution | owned a house in
Damascus, a house on the wall. A man
who preached Christ was bounded from
street to street, and ! hid him from the
assassins. and when | found them break
ing in my house and could no longer
keep him safely, l advised him to flee
for his life, and n basket was let down
over the wall with the maltreated man in
it, and | was one who helped hold the
rope" And | said: lis that all?" and
he answered, THAT is all" And while
| was lost in amazement, | heard q
strong voice that sounded as though it
might once have been hoarse from
many exposures and triumphant
as though it might have be,
longed to m Of the martyrs, and il
said: mot many mighty, not many no.
BILE are called, but God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to confound
the things whish are mighty, and base
things of the world and things which 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
10! it was the very one who had said:
Through a window, in a basket, was ]
let down by the wall"
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nifcant. 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 a nail was driven too near the COM
pass. 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
course, and suddenly the mar on the
lookout cried, Land hol" and the ship
was halted within a few yards of her
demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six
penny nail came heal wrecking a Gu
harder. Small ropes hold mighty des-
TIMES.
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 in
sect, called the candle fly, is kept from
stepping over a precipice a hundred feet.
F. w. Robertson, the celebrated English
clergyman, said that he entered the
ministry from a train of circum-
stances started by the barking of
a dog. Had the wind blown one way
on a certain day the Spanish lnquisi-
ton would have been established in Eng
land; but ii blew the other way, and
that dropped the accused institution
with $4,000 tons of shipping to the bot
tom Of the sea or flung the splintereo
logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine. Three noughts placed on the right
side Of the figure n makes a thousand,
and six thoughts on the right side of the
figure one a million, and our n~othingness
placed on the right side may be augmen-
tation illimitable. All the ages Of time
and eternity affected by the basket let
down from "A Damascus balcony.