Connecticut western news., 1894-03-15

Iuau or WOfnaR> that went on that snip without thanking captain Andrews, and when years after heard of his death l was impelled to write letter of condo lence to Iris family in Liverpool.
 Everybody recognized the goodness, the courage. the kindness of Captain An drews, but it occurs to me now that we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism, and his eontinu- ance, and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest.
 ALL POINTED OUT.
 A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of wood every eventide, and the neighbors m the country did not understand how a mother with SO many cares and anxieties should waste SO much time as to be idly sauntering ont evening by evening. It was found out afterward that she went there to pray for her household, and while there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts:
 love to steal awhile away
 From every cuinhering care And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such un- pretending yet everlasting service? We go into long sermon to prove that, we will be able to recognize people in heaven, when there is one reason we fail to present, and that is better than all God will introduce us. We shall have them all pointed out. You would not be guilty of the impoliteness of having friends in your parlor not introduced, and celestial politeness will demand that we be made acquainted with all the heavenly household. What rehearsal of old times and recital of stirring reminis- cences.
 If others fail to give introduction, God will take usthrough, and beforeour first 24 hours in heaven-if it were calculat- l ed by earthly timepieces-have passed we shall meet and talk with more heav- | enly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we met with earthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of useful ness wlll sit on the last seat by the front door of the heavenly temple. while right | up within arms reach of the heavenly I throne will be many who, though they could not preach themselves or do great | exploits for God, nevertheless held the rope.
 Come, let us go right up and accost 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 cathedrals sounding dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? 'I lived | by choice the unmarried daughter in humble home that 1 might take care of my parents in their old age, and I en- | dured without com mplaints all their quer- | ulousness and ministered to all their wants for 20 years"
 BEFORE THE THRONES.
 Let us pass on round the circle of | thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for 30 years a Christian | invalid and suffered all the while, occa- | sionally writing note of sympathy for | those worse off than I. and was general | and once in awhile was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane" Pass on to another
 throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? Il was the mother who raised a whole family of children for God, and | they are out in the world Christian mer- | chants, Christian mechanics, Christian | wives, and have had full reward of all | my toil." Let us pass on in the circle of | thrones. II had 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 I owned house in
 Damascus-a house on the wall. A man | who preached Christ was bounded from I street to street, and I hid him from the
 assassins. and when found them break | ing in my house and could no longer
 keep him safely advised him to flee for his life, and basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it,
 and was one who helped hold the rope. ' | And said, "Is that all?' And he an
 swered, "That is all"
 l 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 it might have belonged to one
 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. To! it was the very one
 who had said, Through window in a
 basket was let down by the wall"
 EFFECT OF TRIPLES.
 Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
 nifcant. A little thing may decide your
 all. A Cunarder put out from England
 for New York. It was we'll equipped
 but in putting up a stove in the pilot box
 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 shir
 200 miles off her right course, and sud.
 denly the man on the lookout cried
 s.Land, hor' and the ship was halted
 within few yards of her demolition on
 Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
 near wreckin2 a Cunarder. Small ropes
 hold mighty destinies.
 Administer 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 the
 table and would have crushed him. 4
 minister in Jamaica at night by the light
 of an insect, called the candlefy, is kept
 from stepping over precipice hundred
 feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated
 English clergyman, said that he entered
 the ministry from train of circum