The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27

| neck, ana 10 give Snout 10 racer, IL you
are going to ride out of reach of your
mothers prayers Why, n ship crossing
| the Atlantic iu seven days can't sail away
from that! A sailor finds them on the look
out as be takes his place, and finds Them on
the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disen-
tangle rope in the tempest, aud finds them
| swinging on the hammock whom he turns
in. Why not be frank and acknowledge 1T
the most OF us would long ago have boon
dashed to pices had not gracious and loving
hands steadily and lovingly and nightly
held the rope
But there must come a time when we
shall find out who these Damascenes were
who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet
them aud all those who have rendered TO
God and the world unrecognizad and unre-
corded services That is going TO be one OF
| the glad excitemsnts of hoaven-the. hunt-
| ing 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 ser
mon ever recognizing the services of the
people in that Damascus balcony. Charles
&. Finney said to dying Christian: Give
my love to st. Paul when you meet him."
| When you aud | meet him, as we will, |
shall ask him TO introduce mo to those peo-
pie who got him out of the Damascene
peril.
We go into long sermons to prove that we
will be able to recognize people in heaven,
| wheu there is one reason we fail to present,
| and that is better than all-God will intro
duce u.s. We shall have them all pointed
out. You would not be guilty of the impo-
| liteneSs of having friends i'll your parlor not
| introduced, and celestial politenoss will de-
mand that we bo made acquainted with all
the heavenly household. What rehearsal
of old times, and recital of stirring reini-
| niscencesl II others fail to give 1ntroduc-
| tion, God will take us through, and before
our first twentyfour hours in heaven-if it
were calculated by earthly timepieces-
| have passed, we shall meet and talk with
more heavenly celebrities than in our entire
mortal stats we met with earthly oelebri-
ties. Many who made great noise Of use
| fulness 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
Col, nevertheless held the rope.
| Come, let us go right up aud accost those
on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely,
| they must have killed In battle million of
| men. Surely they must have been buried
| with all the cathedrals sounding dirge
and all the towers of all the cities tolling
the national griet. Who art thou, mighty
| one of heaven! ~ lived by choice the un-
married daughter in an humble home that
] might take care of my parents in their old
| age, and l endured without complaints all
| their querulousness and administered to ali
their wants for twenty years"
Let us pass on round the circle of thrones.
| Who art thou, mighty one Of heavenf 81
| was for thirty years christian invalid,
and suffered all the while, occasionally
writing a note of sympathy for those worse
| off than |, and was general couiidant of all
| those who had trouble; and once in while
j was strong enough to make garment for
that poor family in tho back lane" Pass
l
| mighty one of heayen2 81 was the mother
who raised a whole family Of children for
| God, and they are out In the world chris
| tiau merchants christian mechanics, chris
tian wives, and have had full reward of
all my toll" Let us pass on In the circle of
thrones. 81 had d s bbath 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 thrones In time Of
bitter persecution owned house in Da-
| mascus, IA house on tho wall A man who
| preached Christ was bounded from street t.
street, and l hid him from the assassins,
| and when / found them breaking in my
house, aud l could no longer keep him
safely, advised him TO flee for his life, and
"a basket was lot down over the wall with
the matreated man In it, and [ was one who
helped hold the rope" And / said: 'Is
that allr and he answered, That is all. "
And while 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: mot many mighty, not many
noble arc called, but God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to oonfound the
things which are mighty, and base things
of the world and things which are despised
huNh IA nd nh a w n ira
not to bring to naught things which aSe,
that no flesh should glory in his presence.n
And looked to see from whence the voice
came, and lol IL was the very one who had
said: Through a window, in basket, was
| let down by the wall"
Iienceforth think of nothing as insignih-
cant. A little thing may decide your all.
A Cunardep put out from England for New
York. 1t was well-equipped, but in put
ting UP stove In tbs pilot-box a nail was
driven too near the compass. You know
how that nail would affect the compass.
The ships officer, deceived by that dis
tracted compass, put the ship 200 miles off
her right course, and suddenly the man on
the lookout cried: "Land ho and the ship
was halted within a few yards of her de-
molition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny
nail came near wrecking Cunarder.
Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated In Boston at his table,
| AcklHk WOfub puto hto manu- Doulnu uis
head and tits back his chair to think, and
the ceiling falls and cruches the table, and
would havo crushed him. A minister In
jamaica, at night by the light of an insect,
called the candle-iy. is kept from stepping
over a precipice a hundred feet +. w.
Robertson, the celebrated English clergy
man, said that he entered the ministry from
q train of circumstances started by the
barking Of dog. Had the wind blown
one way on a certain day, the Spanish in
QUESTION would have been established In
England; but it blew the other way, and
that dropped the acoursed Institution with
seventy-iive thousand tons Of shipping to the
bottom of the Sea, or flung the spiintered
logs ON the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine Three naughts placed on the right
side OF the figure one makes a thousand,
and six naughts on the right side Of the
figure one million, aud our nothingness
placed on the right side may be augnenta-
tion illimtable. All the ages of time and
eternity affected by tho basket lot down
from Damascus balcony,