The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-07

Heaven-if It were calculated by earthly
| timep ieces-have passed, we shall meet
| and talk with more Heavenly celebrities
than in our entire mortal state we met
with earthly celebrities. Many who made
great noise of usefulness will sit on tbs
| 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 held the rope.
Come, let us go right up and accost
those on this circle of Heavenly thrones.
Surely, they must have killed In battle
million men. Surely, they must have been
| buried with all the cathedrals sounding
dirge, and all the towers of all the cities
tolling the national grief. Who art thou,
mighty one of Heaven?
81 lived by choice the unmarried daugh-
| ter in an humble home that might take
care Of my parents in their old age, and
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 thou, mighty one Of
Heaven
81 was for thirty years Christian in
valid, and suffered all the while, occasion
ally writing a note of sympathy for those
worse of than I, and was general conf
dant of all those who had trouble, and
once in awhile was strong enough to
make a garment for that poor family in
the back lane"
Pass on to another throne. Who art
/ thou, mighty one of Heaven?
ST was the mother who raised whole
/ family of children for God, and they are
out in the world, Christian merchants,
| Christian mechanics Chris ian wives,
and have had full reward of all my toll"
/ Y = Al zS~&%T
| ST had Sabbath 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 Nigh ty one of
Heaven on thislother throne? 'Tn time of
| bitter execution owned house in Da-
mascus, a house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded from street
to street, and 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 fee 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 I said:
"Is that all?' And he answered:
''That is ALL"
And while was lost in amazement I
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 martys, and it said:
| "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 l looked to see from whence the
voice came, and 10! 1t was the very one
| who had said:
Through a window, in a basket, was let
down by the wall.
Henceforth think of nothing as insignff1.
cant. A little thing may decide your all.
| A Cunarder put out from England for
New York. It was well equipped, but in
putting up stove in the pilot-box a 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
bred miles off her right course, and sud-
denly the man on the lookout cried,
Land hoW and the ship was halted
within a few yards of her demolition on
Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
near wrecking a 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 brushes
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 a precipice q
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 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 five
thousand tons of shipping to the bottom
of the sea, or flung the splintered logs on
the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life OF
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 a million, and our nothingnes SIS
placed on the right side may be aug
mentation illimitable. All the ages of
time and eternity affected by the basket
let down from Damascus balcony.