Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-23

! family in the back lane" Pass on to another
| throne. Who art thou. mighty one of
| heaven? AZ was the mother who raised a
| whole family Of children for God. and they
! 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. 81 had a
! Sabbath-school class, and they were always
on my heart, and they all entered the King
| dom Of God, and [ am waiting for their ar
! rival"
But who art thou, the mighty one of
heaven on this other throne? ':In time of
! bitter persecution 1 owned a house III
| Damascus-a house on the wall. A man
| who preached Christ was bounded from
street to street, and I hid him from the as
| sassirs, and when I found them breaking in
my house and I could no longer keep him
safely I advised him to fee for his life. and a
basket was let down over the wall with the
maltreated man in it, and I was one who
helped hold the rope" And I said. 'Is that
aII?". And he answered, ''That is all
And while / was lost in amazement heard
2 strong voice that sounded as though it
might once have been hoarse from many ex-
posures and triumph as though it might
have belonged to one of the martyrs, and if
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 despsed hath
God chosen-yea, and things which are not
to bring to naught things which are, that
no flesh should glory in His presence. AM
[ looked to sec from whence the voice can't,
and, 10 it was the very one who had said,
Through window in a basket was let
down by the WALL
HencefOrth think of nothing as insiGnih
cant. A little thing may decide your all. A
Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was we'll equipped, but in putting
n1&@w~
nf stove IN the pilot box nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how tho
<il would affect the compass. The ships
ot1lcer, deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship 200 miles off her right course,
and suddenly the man on the lookout cried,
Land, no j. and the ship was halted within
a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket
shoals. sixpenny nail came ncar wreck
ing Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty
destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table.
lacking a word. puts his hand behind mis-
head and tilts back his chair to think and the
ceiling falls and crushes the table and would
have crushed him. A minister i'll Jamaica
at night by the light of an insect. called the
candlefiy, is kept from stepping over a preci-
pice 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 one way on certain
DAY the spanish lnqulSltlOn WOulC nave Deen
established in England but it blew the other
way, and that dropped the accursed institu-
ton with rs, 900 tons of shipping to the bot
tom 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 l make a 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 a DamaScns balcony!