The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27
SMALL EVENTS IN LIFE.
TALMAGE ON THE GREAT RESULTS
THAT MAY HANG ON THEM.

Part in the Event-Talmage Tells u
Story from His own Life.
GRIMsBY, CANADA, Aug. 26.-The Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached on the camp ground, this place,
to-day. All Canada is represented in the
Immense throngs assembled. DR.. Talmago
has preached at Grimsby many summers.
This closes his summer absence He has
preached, lectured and visited in thirteen
states Of the union this summer, his audi
ences numbering 10000 and 1900 people
The subject of his sermon here to-day was,
Great Results May Depend on Small
Events" DR.. Talmage took for his text;
Through window, in a basket, was l let
down by the wall."-II. Cor. H., 2S He
said;
Damascus is city of white and glisten-
ing architecture, sometimes called "the oye
of the east, )" sometimes called "a pearl sur.
rounded by emeraids,n at one time distin-
guishad for swords of the best material
called damascus blades, and upholstery of
richest fabric called damasks. A no 'semau
by tne name of Paul riding toward this
city, had been thrown from the saddle. The
horse had dropped under fiasn from the
sky, which at the same tune was so bright
it blinded the rider for many days, and,
think 80 permanently injured his eyesight
that this defect of vision became the thorn
in the flesh he afterwards speaks of He
started for Damascus to butcher Christians,
but after that hard fall from his horse he
was a changed man and preached Christ in
Damascus till the city was shaken to its
foundation.
IT. ,,,-o, c;,,os o,,4ho,.;+,, fov tis o,.-sst
and the popular cry is Kill him. kill him ~
The city is surrounded by high wall, aud
the gates are watched by the police, lest the
Cilician preac ler escape. Many of the
houses are built on the wall, aud their bal
comics projected clear over, and hovered
above the gardens outside. 1t was custom
ary to lower baskets ont of these balconies,
and pull up fruits and flowers from the
gardens. 70 this day, visitors at the mon
astery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let
down in baskets. Detectives prowled around
from house TO house looking for Paul, but
his friends hid him, now in one pace, now
in another. He is no coward, as fifty Incl
dents in his life demonstrate. But he feels
his work is not done yet, and so he evades
assassination. SIS that preacher hereF
the foaming mob shout at one house door.
''1s that fanatic herep the police shout
at another house door. Sometimes on the
street incognitO he passes through a crowd
of cienched fists, and sometimes he secretes
himself on the housetop. At last blle infuri
ate populace gets on sure track of him
They have positive evidence that he is In
the house of one of the Christians, tho bal
cony of whose home reaches over tae wall.
Here he isl Here he isl" The vocifera.
ton and blasphemy aud howliugiof the pur'
suers are at the front door. They break id
Fetch out that Gospelzer. and let us hang
his head on the city gate. Whers is heF
The emergency was terrible. Providen.
TALLY there was good, stout basket in the
house. Paups frleuds fasteu q rope to the
basket. Paul steps into it. The basset is
lifted to ths edge OF the balcony ON the
wall, and then, while Paul holds on TO the
rope with both hands, his friends lower
away, carefully and cautiously, slowly but
surely, further down and further down, un
until the basket strikes the earth and tie
apostle steps out, and afoot aud alone
starts on that famous missionary tour, the
story of which has as6onished earth and
heaven. Appropriate entry IN Paul's diary
of travels: Through a window, in O
basket, was let down by tho wall"
Observe, first, on what Il slender tenure
great results hang. The ropemaSer who
twisted that cord fastened to that lowering
basket never knew how much would depend
on the strength of it. How if it had been
broken and the apostle, life had been
dashed outa What would have become OF
the christian churchf All that magnificent
missionary work in Pamphilia, Cappadocia
Galatia, Macedonia, would never have been
accomplished. All his writings that make
up so Indispensable and enchanting a part
of the New Testament would never
have been written. The story Of
resurrection would never have beeu
SO gloriously told as he told it. That
example of heroic and triumphant endur
ance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean
euroc!ydon, under fagellation and at hii
beheading, would not have kindled tht
courage Of ten Thousand nartyrdons. But
that rope holding that basket, how muct
depended on It'll So again and again great
results have hung on what seemed slender
circumstances.
Did ever ship of many thousand tom
crossing the sea have such important pas
senRer as had once a boat of leaves, from
taffrail to stern only three or four feet, tht
vessel made waterproof by a coat OF btu
men and floating on the Nile with the in
fant law-giver of the Jews on boardl VIVA
if some crocodile should crunch itl Wha
il some of the cattle wadiug in for drnl
should sink its Vessels of war sometime
carry forty guns looking through the port
holes ready TO open battle. But that tin,
craft on the Nile seems to be armed with al
the guns of thunder that bombarded Slna
at the lawgiving. Cn how fragile crai
sailed how much of historical importance
The parsonage at Epworth, England, Il
on fire in the night, ard the father rushec
through the hallway Sor the rescue Of hi
children. Seven children are out and safe
on the ground, but Quo remains in the con
suming building. Tint one wakes, and
finding his bed on fire and the buildi1)
crumbling, comes 10 tie windaw, and tw,
peasants make a ladder of their bodies
one peasant standing Oh the shoulder Of tn,
other, and down the human ladder the boz
desconds-John Wesley If you woul(
know how much DEPENDED ON chat ladde
of peasants ask the mill ons Of Methodist
on both sides Of the sea. AK their mission
stations oil around the world. Ask theil
hundreds Of thousands alI eady asceDded Il
join their founder. who would have per
ished but for the living s airs Of peasants
shoulders.
An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island
and right in the midst of SURF 1undi 4
cannibalism and squalor, khe passengers
discovered christian coli III Of churche
and schools and beautiful pes and high
est style Of religion and ,r Tlization. Fol
fifty years no missionarya ~ no christian
influence had landed ther1ros tsV hy this oasi
of light amid desert Of tst,k endoml Sixty
years before, a ship had t,s listpstor, and
one Of the sailors, unable II We anything
else, went to his truux aha 5>-~lt out Bib,
which his mother had pl9d t,sr3ro, and van
ashore. tue Bible held a bffA teeth. Th,
book was read on all sic, ia Nj the rougl
aud vicious population sci Il evangelical
and a church was starte,a ,Iq y an enlight