Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-12

throne. Who art thou, mighty one Of
heaven? II was the mother who raised q
whole family of children for God, and
they are out in the world Christian mer-
chants, Christian mechanics, Christian
wives, and I have had full reward of all
my toll" Let us pass on in the circle of
thrones. Il had a Sabbath school class,
and they were always on my heart, and
they all entered the kingdom of God,
and I am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one of
heaven on this other throne? I'm time of
bitter persecution l owned a house in
Damascus-a house on the wall. A man
who preached Christ was bounded from
street to street, and I hid him from the
assassins. and when I found them break
ing in my house and I could no longer
keep him safely l advised him to flee for
lis life, and a basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in it,
and l was oSe who helped hold the rope"
And l said, els that all?' And he an
swered, ''That is ALL"
And while | was lost in amazement l
heard a strong voice that sounded as
though it might once nave been hoarse
from many exposures and triumphant
as though it might have belonged to n
Of the martyrs, and it said, mo 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 1 looked to see from whence the
voice came, and. 10! it was the very one
who had said, Through a window in a
basket was I let down by the wall"
FIFE OF RIFLE
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 a stove in the pilot box
a 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 a few yards of her demolition on
Nantucket shoals. A sixpennynail came
neal wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
Administer 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 candiefy, is kept
from stepping over a 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 a dog.
Had the wind blown way Oh 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 10000 tons
of shipping to the bottom of the sea or
flung the splintered logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine. Three ciphers placed on the right
side of the figure 1 makea thousand, and
six ciphers on the right side of the figure
1 u 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 a Damascus balcony!