New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-05

iIfotheTs fail to give introduction, God viii
take us through. and before our "a hours In
heaven-ifi it were calculated by earthly time
pieces-have passed, We shall meet and talk
with mere heavenly celebrities than IN our
entire mortal state we met with earthly celeb
rites. Many who made great noise of use
fulness will site the last seat by the front
door OF the heavenly temple, while right up
Within arms reach of the heavenly throne will
De many who, though they could not preach
themselves or do great exploits for God, new
ertheless held the rope.
Come, let us go right up and accost those
nSthis circle of heavenly thrones. Surely,
they must have killed in battle million men.
Surely, they must have been buried with
all the cathedrals sounding q dirge and
AL the towers of all the cities tolling the ma
honM grief Who art thou, mighty one of
heaven? e lived BY choice the unmarried
daughter in an humble home that I might
take care of my parents in THAR old age. and
81 endured without complaints all their
querulousness and administered to all their
wants for 20 years.
Let us pass on round. the circle of thrones.
Who art thou, mighty one of heaven?
u was for 30 years Christian invalid and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing
note ofsympathy for those worse off than ],
and was general confident of all those who
had trouble, and once in a while was
strong enough to make a garment for that
".
another throne. Who are thou mighty one.
of heaven? Il was the mother who raised a
whole family of children for God and they are
out in the world Christian merchants, Chris
han mechanics, Christian wives, and have
had full reward of all my toll Let US pass
on on in the circle Of thrones "Ihad asabbath
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 throne? In time of Bit
ter persecution owned a house in Damascus
q house on the wall. "A man who preached
Christmas bounded from street to street,
and hid from the assassins, and when /
found them braking in my house and could
no longer keep him safely, / adviced him to
flee for his life, and basket was let down
over the wall with the maltreated mann in it,
and / was one who helped hold the rope"
And said: Is that all?" and he answered,
THAT is all And while was lost in
amazement 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 martyrs, and it said: Not many lightly, a
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,
thatno flesh should gloryin His presence. /"
Andllookedt to see from whence the voice came,
and lol it was the very one who had said:
Through window, in a basket, was let
down by the wall. -
Henceforth think Of nothing as insfgnih-
can't. A little thing may decide your all. "a
A Cunarder put out from England for New
York. It was well equipped, but in putting
up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
too near the compass. The ships officer
deceived by that distracted compass, put the
ship 200 miles off her right course, and sud-
denly the man on the lookout cried, Land
hoP and the ship was halted within few
yards of her demolition ON Nontueket shoals.
sixpenny nail came came near wrecking
sCunarder. Small opes 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
> amalca, at night, by the light of an insect
called the candle-fy, is kept from stepping
over precipice a hundred feet. f. w. Rob-
ertson, the celebrated English Clergyman,
said that he entered the ministry fiom
train OF circumstances started by the bark
ing of a dog. Had the wind blown one way
on a certain day, the Spanish inquisition
would have been established in England,
but it blew the other way, and that dropped
the accursed institution with 5000 tons Of
shipping to the bottom of the sea, or flung
the splintered logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimp ortant in your life or nine
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 augmentation llimitable All the
ages of time and eternity were affected by
the basket let down from Damascus bal
cony.