The Brookhaven leader., 1888-09-06

| would long ago have been dashefte Pieces
had not gracious and loving har Dis stead
lily and lovingly and nightly held the
| rope.
We 60 into long sermons to prove that
we will be able to recognize people II
Heaven, when there is one reason we fai
to present, and that is better than all
God will introduce US. You would not bt
guilty Of the impoliteuess OF havlnG
friends in your parlor not introduced,
and celestial pollteness will demand that
we be made acquainted with all the
/ Heavenly household. What rehearsal Of
/ old times and recital OF stirring
"reminiscences. II Others fail TO give in.
PRODUCTION, God will take us through, and
before our first twcnty-four hours In
| Hcaven-if 1t were calculated by earthly
timepiece 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 the
| last seat by the front door Of the Heaven
| " temple. while right up within arms
reach of the Heavenly throne Will be
many who, though they could not preach
them selves 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 q
million men. Surely, they must have been
| buried with all the CathcdralS sounding a
dirge, and all the towers OF all the cities
tolling the national grief. Who Grt thou,
mighty one of Heaven!
II lived by choice the unmarried daugh'
ter in an humble home that / might take
care OF my parents in their old age, and
l endured without complaints oil their
querulousness and administered TO all
their wants for twenty years"
Let us pass on round the circle or
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one OF
Heaven?
II was for thirty years Christian in
valid, aud suffe red all the while, occasion
ally writing a note Of sympathy for those
worse off 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'
81 was the mother who raised whole
family Of children for God, and they are
out in the world, Christian merchants,
Christian mechanics, Christian wives,
and have had full reward of all my toll"
Let us pass on in the circle of thrones.
81 had a Sabbath chool class, and they
were always on my heart, and they all
entered the kingdom of God, and l am
waiting for their arrival"
BIt wlO Art thou tho nigh ty one OF
Heaven on this.other throne? "In time OF
bitter execution owned house in Da-
mascus, house on the wall. \ man who
preached Christ was bounded from street
to street, and l hid him from the assas-
sins; and, when l found them breaking
in my house and | 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 1t, and !
was one who helped hold the rope"
And | said:
as 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 belonged to one of
the martys, and 1t said:
"Not many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to coufound 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! it was the very one
who had said:
Through a window, in a basket was I let
down by the wall.
Henceforth think OF nothing as insignifl.
cant. A little thing may decide your all
A Cunarder put out from England for
New York. 1t was we'll equipped, but in
putting up a stove in the pilot-bOx q 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 off her right course, and sud-
denly the man on the lookout cried,
Land ho!" and the ship was halted
within 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 word, put his hand be-
hind his head and tits back his chair to
luluk, anu lue CtllluS ldlIS anu CruSUeS
the table, and would have crushed him.
A minister in Jamaica at Right by the
light Of an insect called the candle fly is
kept from stepping over 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 ono 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 or
! mine. Three thoughts placed on the right
side OF the figure one make q thousand,
and six noughts on the right side of the
| figure one million, and our notbingness
! 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.