The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-14

stand how mother with 10 many cares and
anXietics should waste 20 much time ~ to
he idly -auuteriny ont evening by evening.
10 was found out afierward that she went
there 60 pray for her household. and while
there one evening She wrote that beautiful
hymn, famous IN all ages for cheering Chris
tan hearts:
love to steal awhile away
From every cumhoring care
And spend the hours Of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no reward for such unpre-
tending yet everlasting servicef
GOD WILL INTRODUCE rs.
We go into long sermon to prove that we
will be able To recognize people in heaven
when there is one reason we fail 10 present,
and that Is better than all--God will intro
duce us. We shall have them all pointed
out. You would not be guilty OF theimpo-
I liteness Of having friends in your parlor
/ not introduced, and celestial politeness will
/ demand that we be made acquainted with
l all the heavenly household. What rehesr
sal Of old times and recital Of stirring rem
! inisceuces.
II others fail to give introduction, God
will take us through, and before our first
2i hours in heaven-if it were calculated by
earthly timepieces-have passed We shall
meet and talk with more heavenly celebri-
ties than In our entire mortal state we met
with earthly celebrities. Many who made
great noise of usefulness will sit on the last
seat 10y the front door Of the heavenly tenn
pie, while right up within arms reach of
the heavenly 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 throne. 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' II lived by choice the nm
married daughter in "A humble home that
might take care of my parents in their old
age and endured without complaints all
their querulousness and ministered to all
their wants for 20 years
Let us pass on round the circle OF thrones
Who art thou, mighty one of heavenf II
was for 30 years Christian invalid and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing
a note of sympathy for those worse Off than
|, and was general coniidant Of all those
who had trouble, and once in awhile was
strong enough to make 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
whole family of children for God, an they
are out in the world, Christian merchants,
Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and
| 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 al
ways 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 thrUuef "In time OF
bitter persecution owned a house ia Da-
mascus, a house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded from street
to street, and hid him from the asssssins,
and when l found them breaking IN my
house and could no longer keep him safe
| ly advised him TO flee for his life, aud
basket was let down over the wall with The
maltreated man in it, and | was one who
helped hold the rope" And Isiid. "l- that
| allg" and he answered, THAT is all"
And while | was lost in amazement
| heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarst rom
many exposures and triumphant as Il )ugh
IL might have belonged to one of the mar
tyrs, and it said, Not many might, 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 MOTTO bring TO naught things
which are, that no flesh should glory in his
presence" And looked TO see from whence
the voice came, and, lol it was the very one
who had said, Through window, In
basket, was let down by the wall"
THE STORY OF THE NAIL.
Henceforth think Of nothing as insignifi-
cant. 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 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 com.
pass, put the ship 200 miles on her right
course, and suddenly the man on the iook-
out cried, Land. hol" and the ship was
halted within few yards of her demolition
ON Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
near wrecking Cunarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking "A word, puts his hand behind his
head and tilts back his chair 10 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 candlefly, is kept from stepping
over precipice IA hundred feet f. w.
Robertson, ttfe celebrated English clergy
man, said that he entered the ministry
from train Of circumstances started by
the barking of dog. Had the wind blown
one way on certain day, the Spanish in
QUESTION would have been established in
England, but it blew the other way, and
that dropped the aceursed institution, with
1900 tons of shipping to the bottom of the
sea or flung the splintercl logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine Three ciphers placed on the right
side Of the figure make a thousand, and
six ciphers ON the right side of the figure
| million, and our notbingness placed
on the right side may he augmentation IL
limitable All the ages of time and eternity
affected by the basket let down from a Da-
nascus balcony!