Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-09-02
TALMAGE IN CANADA.
GREAT RESULTS MAY DEPEND On
SMALL EVENTS.

The Casual, the Accidental, Are Parts
of Great Pian-The Omnlpre sence Of
a Mothers Prayers.
GRrMsBY, Can, Aug. 26.-The Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, DID,, of Brooklyn,
preached on the camp ground at this
place today. All Canada is represented
in the immense throngs assembled. DIR.
Talmage has preached at Grimsby many
summers. This closes his summer alb
sence. He has preached, lectured and
visited in thirteen states of the Union
this summer, his audiences numbering
ten and fifteen thousand 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 basket, was /
let down by the wall" II Cor. ii, 80.
lie said:
Damascus is city Of white and glisten-
eye of the east, sometimes called "a
pearl surrounded by emeralds." at one
time distinguished for swords of the
best material called Damascus blades,
and upholstery Of richest fabric called
damasks. A horseman by the name of
Paul, riding toward this city, had been
thrown from the saddle. The horse had
dropped under a flash from the sky,
which ut the same time was so bright il
blinded the rider for many days, and |
think so permanently injured his eye
sight that this defect of vision became
the thorn in the flesh he afterwards
speaks Of. He started from Damascus
to butcher Christians, but after that hard
fall from his horse he was changed
man and preached Christ in Damascus
till the city was shaken to its foundation.
The mayor gives authority for his ar
rest, and the popular cry is xiii him!
Kill him!' The city is surrounded by a
high wall, and the gates are watched by
the police lest the Cilician preacher
escape. Many Of the houses are built on
the wall, and their balconies projected
clear over and hovered above the gardens
outside. 1t was customary to lower
baskets out Of these balconies and pull up
fruits and flowers from the gardens. To
this day visitors at the monastery ot
Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in
baskets. Detectives prowled around from
house 10 house looking for Paul, but his
friends hid him now in one place, now in
another. He is no coward, as fifty Incl
cents in his life demonstrate. But he
feels his work is not done yet, and so he
evades ASSASSINATION. ''Is that preacher
here;" the foaming mob shout at one
house door. ''ls that fanatic herei" the
police shout at another house door
Sometimes on the street incognito he
passes through a cloud Of clenched fists.
and sometimes he secretes himself on the
housetop. At last the infuriate popu-
lace get on sure track Of him. They
have positive evidence that he is in the
house Of one Of the Christians, the bal.
cony Of whose home reaches over the
wall. Here he isl Here he isl" The
vociferation and blasphemy and howl
ing Of the pursuers are at the front
door. They break in. Fetch out
that Gospelizer, and let us hang his head
on the city gate. Where is hep The
emergency was terrible Providentially
there was a good stout basket in the
house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to
the basket. Paul steps into it. The
basket is lifted to the 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 eau.
tiously, slowly but surely, further down
and further down, until the basket
strikes the earth and the apostle step:
out, and afoot and alone starts on that
famous missionary tour, the story OF
which has astonished earth and heaven
Appropriate entry in Paul's diary OF
travels; Through a window, in a bas,
ket, was let down by the wall.
Observe, first, on what slender tenure
great results hang. The ropemaker VIII,
twisted that cord fastened to that lower
ing basket never knew how much woulC
depend on the strength Of it, How il j
had been broken and the apostles life Ina,
been dashed outl What would have be
come of the Christian churchl All tina
magnificent missionary work in Pam
philia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonii
would never have been accomplished
All his writings that make up so indis
pensable and enchanting a part Of tn
New Testament would never have beeI
written. The story Of resurrection woul,
never have been so gloriously told as h
told it. That example of heroit
and triumphant endurance at Philippi
in the Mediterranean euroclydon, unde
flagellation and at his beheading woul,
not have kindled the courage of tel
thousand martyrdoms. But that rop'
holding that basket, how much depended
on IL So again and again great result
have hung ON what seemed slender ci.
cumstances.
Did ever ship Of many thousand toni
crossing the sea have such important pas
senger as had once boat of leaves, from
tafTrail 20 stern only three or four feet
the vessel made waterproof by coat oI
bitumen and floating on tho Nile will
the infant lawgiver Of the jew
on board? What II some crocodile
should crunch it2 What II some OF
the cattle wading in for drink shoult
sink ia Vessels Of war sometimes carry
forty guns looking through the port
holes ready TO open battle, But that tin,
craft ON the Nile seems 10 be armet
with all the guns Of thunder that bonn
barded Sinai at the law giving. On how
fragile craft sailed how much Of his
torical importancel
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