The Progress., 1894-03-17

must have been buried with all the
cathcdraIs sounding dirgc ard 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 in a humble home
| that might take care Of my parents
in their old age and endured with
out complaints all their qucrliousncsa
and minstercd to all their wants for
twenty years.
Yet us pass on round the circle OF
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one Of
heaven? II was for thirty years 4
Christian invalid, and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing a note Of
sympathy for those worse off than |,
and was general onGdaut of all those
who had troubIr. and once in a while
| was Stron- enough to make a gar
mrnt for that poor family in the back
lane" Pass on to another throuc
Who art thou, mighty one Of hCayrn'
II was the mother who raised q whole
family of children for God AMI they
are out in the world. Christian mcr-
chants Christian mechanics, Christian
wives and have had full reward of
all my toll. Let MS pass on in the
circle of thrones. Il had Il Sabbath
school class, and they were always On
my heart and they all entered the
kingdom Of God, and ann waiting for
their arrival"
, But who art thou, the mighty one of
heaven, on this other throne? In
time Of bitter persecution | owned a
house in Damascus, u house on the
wall A man who preached Christ
was bounded from street to street. and
! hid him from the aSSaSsiuS, and when
. | found them breaking in my house
and could no longer keep hm safely
| advised him to flee for his life and u
basket was let down over the wall
with the maltrcatcd man in it, and
was one who helped hold the rope.
And ] said: "ls that all?' and he an,
u swered. ''rhat is all" And while
was lost in amaZcmcnt ! heard &
' strong voice that sounded as though il
!, might once have been h0arSC from
', MANY exposures and triumphant a.
" though it might have belonged to ONT
of the martyrs, and it said: "No
II many mighty, not many noble arr
IS called, but God hath chosen the veal
T. things of the world to confound thu
e things which are mighty, and baS
n things of the world and things whic1
S. are despised hath God chosen, yea
K and things which are not, to bring t.
Y naught things which are, that no tlcs1
~ should glory in his presence, And
u looked to see from whence the vote
IN came and 10! it was the very one VIII
~ had said: "Through a window in
ne basket was let down by the wall
vs. IIenccforth think of nothing as il
ID significant A little thing may decid
TO your all A Cunarder put out frol
en- England for New York. 1t was we
III equipped, but in putting up stove
lie the pilot box nail was driven tc
ne near the compass. You know no
that nail would affect the compass
ed The ships officer, deceived by thu
Of distracted compass, put the ship y
9Th miles out of her right course, and SIT
ito denly the man on the lookout crie'
lst Land, ho.'' and the ship was halle
nut within few yards of her demolitic
TIL on Nantucket shoals. A six-penr
me nail came near wrecking a Cunarde
at Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
he A minister seated in Boston at /
do table, lacking 4 word puts his hal
an behind his he;l1 and tits back his cha
TX to think, and the ceiling falls al
ars brushes the table and would ha
crushed him A minister in Jamai
on at night by the light of an insect call
'ol, the candle-hy is kept from steppi
,ss, over Il precipice hundred feet.
ain W. Robertson, the celebrated Engli
hat Clergyman, said that he entered t
He ministry from train of circumstan'
ess started by the barking of dog, II
his the wind blown one way on cert;
en- day, the Spanish lnquisition wol
ism have been established in England:
ity, it blew the other way, and tt
ard dropped the accused institution W
of rs, 900 tons Of shipping to the bott
the of the sea, or flung the splintered IL
the on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life
ing mine Three ciphers placed on
ZEN. right side of the figure one max
,trv thousand, and six ciphers on the ri
With side of the figure one million,
,uld our nothingness placed on the ri
lun- side may be augmentation illimital
# All the ages of time and eternity
she fected by the basket let down fror
old. Damascus balcony!
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