The Penn's Grove record., 1894-03-16

whole family OF children Tor God, and they
are out in the world Christian merchants.
Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and I
have had a full reward Of all my toil." Let
MS pass on in the circle Of thrones. II had a
Sabbath-school class, and they were always
on my heart, and they all entered the king.
dom OF God, and 1 am waiting for their ar.
rival"
But who art thou. the mighty one o
heaven on this other throne2 GIN time oil
bitter persecution I owned a house In
Damascus house on the wall. A man
who preached Christ was bounded from
street to street, and l hid him from the as
sassins, and when I found them breaking In
ny house and I could no longer keep him
safely 1 advised him to fee Tor his life, and a
basket was let down over the wall with the
naltreated man in it. and I was one who
helped hold the rope" And / said, us that
ll?" And he answered, ''That Is ALL"
And while I was lost in amazement l heard
4 strong voice that sounded rs though 1t
might once have been hoarse from many ex-
posures AMI triumph as though 1t might
have belonged to one OF the martyrs, and 1t
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 aud 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 see from whence the voice came,
and, 10 II was the very one who had said,
Through n window in a basket was | let
down by the wall"
Henceforth think Of nothing as insignia,
SAINT. A little thing may decide your all. A
Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was well equipped, but in putting
up q stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how the
nail would affect the compass. 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 r. and the ship was halted within
a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket
shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wreck
ing a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty
lestinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word. puts his hand behind his
head and Tits back his chair to think and the
ceiling falls and brushes the table and would
have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica
at night by the light Of an insect, called the
candlefy, is kept from stepping over a preci-
pice a hundred feet. i. W. Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from a train Of circum-
stances started by the barking Of a dog.
Had the wind blown one way on a certain
day the Spanish Inquisition would have been
established in England, but 1t blew the other
way, and that dropped the accursed institu-
ton with u.s. 900 tons Of shipping to the bot
tom OF the sea or flung the splintered logs on
HE rocks.
Nothing u%nimportant in your life or mine
Three ciphers placed OF the right side Of the
figure / make thousand, and six ciphers on
the right side of the figure l a million, and
our n%othingness placed on the right side may
be augmentation illimitable. All the ages Of
time and eternity affected by the basket let
DOWN from a Damascus balconyl