The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15

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right up within arms reach OF the heavcnlv
throne will be mapy who. though they could
not preach themselves or do great exploits
for God. nevertheless held the rope.
Come. let us 20 right up and Hccost those
on this circle OF heavenly thrones. Surely.
they must have killed In battle million men.
Surely they must have been buried with all
the catheirsls sounding dirge. and all the
towers OF all the cities tolling the national
grief. Who art thou. mighty one Of heaven
II lived by choice the unmarried daughter
I'm a humble home that might take cnre OF
my parents In their old age. and / endured
without complaints all their querulousness
and ministered TO all their wants for twenty
years"
Let us pass on round the circle ofthrones.
Who art thou, mighty one OF heaven2 ~
was for thirty years n Christian invalid and
suffered all the while. occasionally writing
note OF sympathy for those worse Oft than l.
and was general coulldant OF all those who
had trouble. and once In awhile / was strong
enough 90 make garment for that moor
family in the back lane" Pass on TO another
throne. Who ART thou. mighty onn of
heaven2 "I was the mother who raised
whole family OF children for Col. anl they
are ont in the world Christian merchants.
Christian mechanics. Christian wives. and
have had n full reward Of all my toll" Lot
us pass on in the circle OF thrones 81 had n
Sabba'h-schOol class. aud they were always
on nv heart. and thev all entered the king
dom OF God, aud | am waiting for their Br-
rival
Rut who art thou. the mighty one OF
heaven on this other thronc2 "in time OF
hitter persecution / ownel house In
Damascus-a house on the wall. A man
who preached Christ was bounded from
street TO street. and hid him from the as
snssins. and when ] found them breaking In
my house and | could no longer keep him
n.... L. Il
ba-set was let down over the wall with the
maltreated man in it. aud | was one who
helped hold the rope" And 7 said. SIS that
ALP And he answered. "That is all.
And white was lost in amazement heard
strong voica that sounded ~ though Il
might once have been hoarse from many pN-
posurcs and triumph ms though IL ili.;h,
have belonged 20 one Of the martyrs. and II
said. Not many mighty, not many noble
are called. hut God hath chosen the weak
things Of the world TO confound the things
which are miyity and bnse thugs OF tho
world and things which are despisal hath
God chosen-yea. and things which are not
TO bring to naught things which are. that
no flesh should CORY in His presence" And
| looked 10 sec from whence the voice came
and 10 IL was the very one vino had said
Through window in basket was let
down by the wall.
Henceforth think o. nothing rs insjgnig-
'
Cunarder put out from England for New
York II was well equipp id. but in putting
up a stove In the pilot box nail was driven
too near the compass You know how tho
nail would affect the complss. The ships
officer. deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship 200 miles of her right course
and suddenly the man on the lookout cried
Land. no - and the shin was hrt'i within
n few yards Of her demolition on Nintucket
shoals. A siXpanny nail cane near wreck
ing n Cunarder. Small ropes hold miShty
destinies.
A minister seated IN Boston Mt his table.
lacking n word. puts his hand behind HIS
head and tilis back his chair To think. and the
ceiling falls aud crashes the table and would
have crushed him. minister in Jamaica
nj night 10y the light OF an insect. called the
candleny. is kept from stepping over u precl-
picc hundred feet. +. w. Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman. said that he
/ entered the ministry from n train oicircum-
stances started 10y the barking of dog.
Had the wind blown one way on u certain
day the Spanish lnquisition would have been
established in England. but II blew the other
way. aud that dropped the nccursel insltu-
tion with 5000 tons OF shipping 70 the bot
tom of the sea or flung the splinterel logs on
| the rocks.
Nothing unlmportnnt in your life or mine.
! rhrer ciphers placed on the right side OF the
nyu 1 nIs..cc 80 - = 80 ~S OF,
the right side OF the hgura u mIllion. aadl
our nothingness placed on the right side mu1l
be augmentation ilimitable. All the ages
time and eternity affected by the basket
down from IA Damascus balcony