Telegram-herald., 1888-08-27
TALMAGE IN CANADA
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closes as slzz1l-sf arse4ee. Hs las grescEe1.
iec-ared al "a la thirteen states u tie
aloa tbs simmer, rs asl--sacas uaHi a.sTing
Ia 2aa ufsesa laousaua peoL-s- 4ne sleIecI
% 1ls s@rIo1 sers toaay Vas 1rezt Essl-ts
M 0epeal "a Snail Esea1s. Dr. Tai
mage 1ssk sef ais tsxt. ~Iarough a NIadow.
IN a 5aszst. vas leE down b. s4s AL III
Cor u, -. Hs aid
Damascus - a cilY 81 white ana gllsteniBg
area itecfure, sonlstirues called -lae ere q
tas s1st. sometimes ealisd - pearl sup
rouAaed - elasraids az ose time dlstia-
g1lssei Tor s~or.s ef he oest material, called
DanlLs-,.s siasles 4nd upholstery Of F.e1asG
fabric caAed dsFaasks A hor=calan bY ths
nAHss n Paul, rIding tO~ari It's city, LAD
been thrown froIa ths sacIie. fae horse had
dr2ppel uldax dasA froal tls szy. shlcA -
the sauas siEus A. - bstghI Is 0llndod tie
r.ier for n-aay Gays, And. I tliink. 20 perraa-
nentiy i2lursd rs svessghr that tnls defect q
vision becAals tzs ta0ra ia lls nesa he after
wards speAks Sf he started for Damascus
q butcher Chrls'lzns 0uE after thaE hard
fal from as horse - was a charged man
and pFeaese'i Chriss IA Damascus IL Eae eiry
N4s shaken q IL foundation
The mayer gives authority for AS arrest,
aud ths peculiar cry a. ''kll him. XII himf'
The ciEy = surrounded by hiSh wal, aud
The gates are watched BY the pollee lest ths
ClIcian preacher escaps. Many ~ the
house ars blas On the vail. AID their bal
comics prolected clear over and lowered
ABOVE tie gardens outside it wGs custom
ary 10 loser bas-ets Out Of these balconies
aad pull up fruits snd fowers from the gar
dsns. 70 this day visitors az the monastery
or Mount Sinai are lifted and les down in
baskets. Detectives pro~iad around from
house % house looking for Paul. bot as
friends bid him now in one place, now IN
another. He = no coward. as ffty incidents 10
his hie demonstrate. But he feels his work
l. not done Jet, and 50 hs evnd-s ssSa-sina-
ton rs that preacher heref the foaEning
mob shout az one house door. "Is that
fanatic hsreF' The police shout Gt another
house door. Sometimes On the street. incog
nito, he pases through a crowd Of clencbed
fists, aud sometimes be secretes himself oA
the housetop. At iAsr the inturiate populacs
get on sure track OF him. They have posi-
tive evidence that be is in the house Of one
Of the CHRISTIANS, tee balcony Of whose home
reaches over the wall Here be Isl Here
he isi' The vociieration and blasphemy and
bowling of the pursuers are at the front
pallzer, and let Us hang his head on the city
gate Where Is hsF' The emergency WIS ter
ribl-. Providsnsially there was a good, stout
basket Ia the house. PaUls friends fasten a
rope 70 the basket. Paul steps into il. The
basket IS lifted % tss edge OF tho balcony on
the wall. ard then while Paul holds on 70 the
rope with both hands his friends lower away,
carefully and cautiously, slowly but surely,
g.
basket strikes the earth aad the apostle steps
out, and afoo. aud alone starts on that
famous missionary tour, the story Of which
has estonished earth and heaven. Appro-
pirate entry in Pauls diary Of travels:
Through a window, ia q basket, vas let
down BY the wall"
Observe, aTst, on what a slender tenure
great results hang. The ropemaker who
twisted that cord fastened 70 that lowering
basket never Knew bow much would depend
on The strength Of it. How IL it had been
/ broken and the apostles life had been dashed
outi What would have becOins OF the Chris
tan cburchs All that magnificent mission
airy WORK in Parnphilie, Csppadocia, Gala
TIA Macedonia would never have boon &c
cornplished. al ais writings that make Up
81 indispensable and enchanting o part Of
written The story of resurrection would
never have been 50 gloriously told as he told
il. That eIample OF heroic and triumphant
endurance at Phihppi, in the Mediter-
rsne.n euroclydon, under aageIlation
and as bis beheading would not have
kindsed the courage OF ten thousand martyr
doms. But that rope holding that basket,
now much depended on it, SO again and
4 h.xra lae
seemed slender circumstances
Did ever snip OK many thousand tons cross
ing the sea have such important passenger
A. hal once boat Of leaves, from tsffrau to
tern only three OF four feet, the vessel made
waterproof by a coat Of bitgImen. and float
ing on the Nile with the infant lawgiver OF
he Jews on boardi What Il some crocodile
should crunch iti What IL some Of the cat
sl,,, wsdinE IA FOR drink, should sink IL,
Vessels q war sometimes carry forty guns
looking through the portfolios, ready to open
battle Bat taat tiay craft on the Nile seems
70 be armed with all toe guns of thunder that
bombsrded Sinai Et the law giving. On how
fragile craft sailed how much OF historical
/ importancsi
The parsonage az FpwoTth. England Is On
Gre in the night. and the father rushed
childreu- Seven children arc out and safe on
the ground. bat one remains ia the consuu-
I inx building. That one wakes. and finding
BIS bed on fre and The building crum6ling.
comes to tee window. and two peasants maks
q ladder of their bodies. one peasant standiny :
on the shoulder of tbs other, ard down ths
human ladder the boy desrsnds-Joan Wss-
ley. r. you would know how nlucb depended
sn thss ladder q peasants. ask tSs Millions
of Methasiisss on both sides of tia ssa- ASK
their mission stations All sround tse world
Ass their hundrais az thousands already -
cauded 20 jaln their founder. who would nays
persisted but for the living stairs oT peasants
/ shoulders
An Fngi sh ship stoppesl a. Pitcairn Island,
an3 right in the midst q surrounding osnnf
baiisua ard s.,aalor the passengers discovered
Christian colorv az churches and schools
.rd beautifuf homes and hf-seSt style of 70
Friou ard civiiizafiou. For ffsy years uc
uasssi.snarT aad nc Christian influence hsd
andcd tsers why this oasis q light suaid
s.-Ser. q heasbsn.ioral Sixty ysArs bsfors
+. shsp had ret disaster. and one of the SAL
ors. unable 70 save snYthing else, vent &
his trunk sud took ous a Bible wlic1
AS rRother had pisced there. and
suar, asher. she Bsbie bid in his teeth
Tle Book ~ss rad en- Al sides unt1 -
rszxa AMI vicious population were evan
gelie~d. and q chvrch wss sfartesi- AID sr
enlightened Commonwealth e<tacitssss1. 50
the wc-fd's histcrT sas 10 lasrs brlilisn
pace than skat which tails - The trsnsf7rnas
roa Il a uzacn By soe bocS - ID ne
sre-s q sire1 f-nrc~tsc-e ~1>toer toe salte'
c.-rtinrssd to hold tse h-,os n his seeth &C r
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