Sharp County record., 1888-09-13

| orca whether the sailor continued 10 ho'A
| tba booI, in his teeth or let it fall III ''0
/ bra.1-ars bus uDou what small circuM-
stance depended what mighty results
Practical inference: There ore no ~
| gigriAcances in our lives. The ml"u,'sO
tbing is part Of Ia magnitude, lntnly Is
made nm op fnfnitestmals. Great Jnlh"9'
| an agrrpcation of small things. beJhIe-
| hem maurer pulling on a star IN the L"7,-
arr skv One book in q dTenched sailor b
month the evangelization of q muItJuoo,
/ One boat OF papyrus on the Nile treis"'eu
with events for all ages. The rare oL
/ rbr4stendom in basket let down from 10
u,indov on the wall. What YOU u' VI"
we'll II YOU make o rope, make IL 7'I"u-
and true. for You knOwuot how lhuct l1"!
deDcnd on your workmanship II lou
fashion boat let it be water-prool' -ol
Won know not who may sail III IT, II !oU
nut Bible in the trunk OF your BOY I9 Ho
roas from home let it be heard IN your
nravars. for it may have q mission as lar
raorbfng as the book which the 5aIIoI
CARRIED in his teeth to the Pitcairn Deacu
The nIainest mans life is an island De-
t,yaen two enthusiastically past rip
oIirg araiust his shoulders, eternity d"
come touching his brow The casual inc
accidental. thatwhich merely happens 9o'
are parts Of q great plan, ana l17 L"P0
that let's the fugitive apostle from inc
/ Darqscrs wall is the cable that loIdS I'd
its noorfng the ship of the Church III inc
northeast storm of the centuries
Again. notice unrecOguIzad and IN
recorded services. Who spun the roper
Who tied IL to the basket? Who steadIea
the iIIusuious preacher rs ne stePPeo
into it? Who relaxed not q muscle OF
the arm or dismissed on anxious .oo&
from his face until the basket toUoAeo
fbe GROUND and discharged its magnificent
c9rrog Not one of their names has come
TO MS. but there was no work done JlaJ
dav i'm Damascus or in all the earth COM
Dared with the Importance OF their WORK.
| What if they had in the agitation tied
knot that could sIip2 What If the SQUAD
of a mob at the door had led them to say;
,paul must take care Of himself, and we
will take care Of ourselves No, no.
They held the rope, ana in doing SO N'1
more for the Christian Churcl tl21 any
| thousand of us will ever accomplish, Dll
/ God knows and has made eternal record
of their undertaking. And they know.
How pyuItanr they must have -o.t when
they road his letters to the Rom ans, TO
the Corinthians, to the Galatians, TO the
EDbesians. 10 the Philippians, to-
+Fe Cor0ssiaus. TO the TLessalonlanS,
to Timothy, to Titus. to Philemon, TO the
Hebrews. and when they heard how he
walked out of prison with the earthquake
unlocking the door for him and took COM
mand of the Alaxandrlan corn ship When
the sailors we're nearly scared to DEATH
and preached q sermon that nearly NOOK
Felix off his Judgment seat [ hear the
men and women who helped him down
through the window and over the wall
talking in private over the matter, and
saying:
How glad I am that we effected that
rescue. In coming times others may get
the glory Of Pauys work, but no one
should rob rs of the satisfaction OF know
ing that we held the rOpe.'
There are said to be about sixty mine
thousand MINISTERS Of religion IN this
country. About fifty thousand L warrant
came from carly homes which had to
struggle for the necessaries OF life.
The sons Of Iich bankers and merchants
generally bectmc bankers and merchants.
The most of those who hn"nmo mTnlstnrs
are tho sons Of those who had terThc
struggle to get their everyday bread.
The collegiate and theological education
of that son took every luxury from the
parental tabl3 for eight years. The other
children we're more scantily appareled.
The son at college every little while got %
bundle from home. In it were the socks
that mother had knit sitting up late Mt
night, her sight not so good Us once it
was.
And there also we're some deIicacies
from the sisters hand for the voracious
appetite Of q hungry student The father
swung the heavy cradle through the
wheat the sweat rolling from his chin,
/ Jodewiug every step of the way. and then
/ sitting down under the cherry tree at
noon thinking to himsef:
| 81 am feartuIly tired but 10 viii pay if
. I can once soc that boy through college
and ia can know that he will be- preacl-
/ ing the Gospel after am dead"
/ Tie younger children want to know
why they can't have this and that rs
/ others do. and the mother says:
/ ABE patient, my children, until your
/ brother graduates and then You shall
/ have more Iuxurigs, but we must see that
/ boy through
The years 20 by, and the son has been
/ orlaiaeI, and is preaching the glorious
/ Gospel, and great revival comes, and
| souls by scores and hundreds accept the
/ Gospel from the lips Of that young
preacher, and father and mother, quite
/ old now, are visiting the son at the VIII
/ Iacc parsonage. and Mt the close Of %
! Sabbath Of mighty blessing, father and
/ mother retire TO their room, the son
/ lighting the way and asking them if no
could do any thing to make them moro
| comfortable saying if they want any
/ thing in the night Just to knock IN the
wall And then all alone father and
/ mother talk over the gracious influences
/ of the day, and say:
/ "Well, it was worth all we went through
/ to educate that boy 1t was hard pull,
! but we held On till the work was done.
/ The world may not know it, but mother r,
| we held the rope, didn't we;"
/ And the voice, tremuLouj with joyful
| emotions, resp ponded:
eyes. father We held the rope; I feel
MY work is done. Now, Lord, Isttest
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