The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-28

note of sympathy for those worse off than +,
and was general confidant of all those who had
trouble and once in while / was strong
enough to make garment for that poor
family III the back lane" Pass on to another
throne. Who art thou, mighty one in heaven?
u was the mother who raised whole family
of children for God and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian mechan-
les, CHRISTIAN wives. and l have had full re-
ward of all my toll" Let us pass on in the
circle OF thrones 81 had Sabbath-schooI
class, and they were always 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? In time of bitter perse-
cution L owned house in Damascus, house
on the wall. A man who preached Christ was
bounded from streetto street, and hid him
from the asSasslns, and when i found them
breaking in my house and l could no longer
keep him safely, 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: els
that ALP 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 hoarse from many exposures
and triumphant as though it might have be-
longed to one of the martyrs, and it said:
Not many mighty, not many noble are called,
but God hath chosen the weak things
of the world to confound 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
looked to sea from whence the voice came,
and lol 1t was the very one who had said
Through window in basket, was I let
down by the WALL
Henceforth think Of nothing as insignificant.
A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder
put out from England for New York. 1t was
well equipped, but in putting up stove in the
pilot box nail was driven too near the COM
pass You know how that nail would affect
the compass. The ships officer, deceived by
that distracted compass put the ship two hum
dred miles Off her right course, and suddenly
the man on the lookout cried LAND, ho!"
and the ship was halted within few yards of
her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six
penny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder.
Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking word, puts his hand behind his head
and tits back his chair to think, and the CELL
ing falls and brushes the table and would have
crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night
BY the light OF an insect, called the candle-fy,
IS Kept from stepping over precipice O hun.
dred feet. f. w. Robertson, the celebrated
English clergyman, said that he entered the
by the barking of dog. Had the wind
blown one way on certain day,
the Spanish Inqusition would have been
established in England: but it blew the
other way, and that dropped the ac-
cursed institution with seventy-tive 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 noughts placed on the right side of the
figure one makes q thousand, and six noughts
on the right side of the figure one, q million,
and our notlingness placed on the. right side
may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages
Of time and eternity affected ny the basket let
down from Damascus balcony.