The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-06

Heaven--if 1t were calculated by earthly timepieces--have passed, we shall meet and talk with more Heavenly celebrities than in onr entire mortal state we met with earthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of usefulness wilt sit on the last seat by the front door of the Heaven ly 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 hold the rope.
 Come, let us go right up and nccost 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 a dirge, and all The towers of all the cities toiling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven?
 s'I lived by choice the unmarried daugh- ter in an humble home that might take care of my parents in their old age, and endured without complaints all their ouerulousness and administered to all their wants for twenty years"
 Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty ono of Heavenf
 q was for thirty years Christian in- valid, and suffered all the while, occasion ally writing Q note of sympathy for those worse of than I, and was general confi- dant of all those who had trouble, and once in awhile was strong enough to make garment for that poor family in the back lane."
 Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaveng
 "I was the mother who raised whole family of children for God, and they are out in the world, Christian merchants, Christian mechanics Christ tian wives, and have had full reward of all my toll" Let us pass on in the circle of thrones.
 1T had Sabbath h-school class, and they were always on my heart and they all entered the kingdom of God. and l am waiting for their arrival"
 But who art thou. the mighty one of Heaven on thisother thrones 'Tn time of bitter execution I owned a house iu Da- mascus, house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was bounded from street to street, and I hid him from the assas- sins; and, when I found them breaking in my house and l could no longer keep him safely, advised him to flee for his life, and basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and was one who helped hold the rope"
 And said:
 "Is that all?n And he answered..
 That is all"
 And while I was lost in anlazement heard 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 martys, and it sad:
 "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 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 loi 1t was the very one who had said:
 Through window, in a basket. was let down by the wall. b
 Henceforth think of nothing as insignif. cant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was we'll 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 com pass. The ships officer, deceived by the distracted compass, put the ship two hun dred miles of her right course, and sud- denly the man on tho lookout cried, Land hop and the ship was halted within few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinities.
 A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, put his hand be- hind his head and tits back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes 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 precipice hundred feet.
 F. w. Robertson. the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from train of circum. stances started by the barking of dog. Had tho wind blown one way on B certain day the Spanish Inquisition would have been established in England; but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-fve thousand tons of shipping to the bottom of the sea, or flung the splintered logs on the rocks.
 Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three noughts. placed on the right side of the figure one make a thousand, and six noughts on the right side of the figure one million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may be ang- mentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket