Democratic messenger., 1894-03-17

throne. WHO art til.i. mighty one OF
heaven IL was the mother who raised a
whole family II children for God. and
they are out III the ", rid Christian mcr
chants. Christian mechanic :. Christian
wives. and have had full reward of all
my toll. let Ms pass on III the circle of
thro les. II had u Sabbath school class,
and they Were always ON 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 persecution | owned u house IN
Damascus house ON the wall. A man
who preached Christ was houn'ied from
street To street. and | hid him from the
assassins. and when found III, III break
ing in my house and could lao longer
keep him safely advised him TO flee for
his life, and basket was let down oveI
the wall with the maltreated man in it,
and was one who helped hold the rope.
And l said. is that ALL" And he an
swered, That is all. =
And while | was lost in amaZement
heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse
from many exposures and triumphant
as though il might have belonged to ont
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 l looked to see from whence the
voice came, and. 10! it was the very one
who had said, Through window i'll u
basket was let down by the wall"
EFFECT OF TRIFLEs.
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nificant. 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 i'll the pilot box
q nail was driven too near the compass.
You know how that nail would affect
the compass. The ships officer. deceived
by that distracted compass, put the ship
200 miles off her right course. and sud-
denly the man on the lookout cried,
Land, ho.' and the ship was halted
within few yards of her demolition on
Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
near wrecking u Cunarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table.
lacking word. puts his hand behind his
head and tilts back his chair to think,
and the ceiling falls and crushes tho
table and would have crushed him. A
minister in Jamaica at night by the light
Of an insect, called the candlefiy, is kept
from stepping over precipice a hundred
feet. F. w. Robertson. the celebrated
English clergyman, said that he entered
the ministry from a train of circum-
stances started by the barking of dog.
Had the wind blown one way on a GER
tain day the Spanish inquisition would
have been established in England. but it
blew the other way. and that dropped
the accursed institution with $4,000 tons
of shipping TO the bottom of the sea or
flung the splintered logs ON the rocks.
Nothing unimportant ia your life OF
mine. Three ciphers placed on the right
side of the figure | makca thousand. and
six ciphers ON the right side of the figure
million. and our nothingness placed
on the right side may be augmentation
illimitable. All the ages of time and
eternity affected by the basket let down
from q Damascus balcony!