The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-07

we shasl, will ask him to introduce me ID
those people who got him out of the Demas.
Gene peril.
We go into long sermons to prove that we
will be able to recognize people in Heaven,
when there is one reason we fail to pre-
sent, and that is better than all-GOd will
introduce US. We shall have them all
pointed out. You would not be guilty OF
the impoliteness Of having friends in your
parlor not introduced and celestial polite.
ness will demand that we be made acc
quainted with all the heavenly household.
What rehearsing Of old times and recital
of stirring "reminiscences. IL others fail
to give introduction God will take us
through, and before our first twenty-four
hours in Heaven-if it were calculated by
earthly timepieces-have passed, We shall
meet and talk with more heavenly celebri-
ties 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 FROM door Of the heavenly
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
Of men. Surely they must have been
buried with all the cathedrals sounding
dirge and all the towers Of all the cities
toliipg the national grief. VINO art thou,
mighty one of Heaven? 81 lived by choice
the unmarried daughter in an humble
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in my old age, and l 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 a Christian invalid,
and suffered all the while, occasionally
writing note of sympathy for those worse
off than 1, and was general confidant Of all
those who had trouble. and once in while
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 Christ
| ian merchants, Christian mechanics,
| Christian wives, and l have had full Ie-
the circle of thrones. 81 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 mighty one OF
Heaven, on this other throne: SIN time OF
bitter persecution l owned a house in
| Damascus q house Oh the wall. A man
| who preached Christ was bounded from
1 L. Ia, f,.,,, fI,np re-
sassins and when found them breaking
in my house and l could no longer KEEP
| him safely. l advised him to flee 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
[ said: as that ALL" and he answered
''That is all"
And while l was lost in amazement
heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarss
from many exposures and triumphant al
though it might have belonged to one Of
the martyrs, and it said: mot many
mighty, not many noble are called, but
God hath chosen the weak things of thu
world to confound the things which ART
mighty, and base things of the world ane
things which are despised hath Goo
chosen; yea, and things which are not t.
bring to naught things which are, that M
flesh should glory in His presence. Ant
looked to see from whence the voic'
came, and 10! it was the very one who hat
said: Through a window, in basket
was let down by the wall"
Henceforth think Of nothing as insignifi
cant. A little thing may decide your all
A Cunarder put out from England to New
York. II was well equipped, but in put
ting up stove in the pilot box a nail wa
driven too near the compass. The ship
officer, deceived by that distracted com
pass, put the ship 200 miles off her RICH
course, and suddenly the man on the look
out cried: LAND ho" and the ship wa
halted within a few yards OF her denoli
ton on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny mai
came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small
ropes hold mighty destinies. ministe
seated in Boston at his table, lacking
word puts his hand behind his head ant
tits back his chair to think, and the ceilin;
falls and brushes the table and would hav
crushed him. A minister in Jamaica a
night BY the light of an insect, called tn
candle fly, is kept from stepping over
precipice hundred feet. F. w. Robert
son, the celebrated English clergyman
said that he entered the ministry from ;
train of circumstances started by the bark
ing of dog. Had the wind blown on
! way OH certain day, the Spanish inqui
sition would been established in Engl and
but it blew the other way, and that dropped
the accursed institution with 5000 tons O
, shipping to the bottom OF the sea, or fun
the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothin
unimportant in your life or mine. Thre
, naughts placed on the right side of tn
! figure one makes Thousand, and ST
noughts on the right side Of the figure one
: one Million and our nothingness placed o
the right side may be augmentation Him
liable. All the ages of time and eternit
affected by the basket let down FROM
Damascus balcony.