News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-15

famous III all ages 1Or cheering CnrlStlan
hearts:
love to steal awhile away
From every numbering care
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be 10 reward for such I'M
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 us through, and before our first
"a hours in heaven-if it were calculat-
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 will sit on the last seat by the front
door of the heavenly temple. while right
Nd 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 thrones.
Surely, they must have killed in battle a
million men. Surely they must have
been buried with all the cathedrals
pounding dirge and all the towers of all
the cities tolling the national grief. Who
art thou, mighty one of heaven? Il lived
by choice the unmarried daughter in
humble home that might take care of
my parents in their old age. and en-
dared without complaints all their quer
hlousness and ministered to all their
wants for 90 years"
BEFORE THE THRONES.
Let us pass on round the circle of
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of
heaven? 81 was for 80 years Christian
invalid and suffered all the while, occa-
sionally writing note of sympathy for
those worse off than /, and was general
confdant of all those who had trouble,
and once in awhile was strong enough
to make a garment for that poor family
Ia 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 toll" Let us pass on in the circle of
thrones. Il had a Sabbath school class,
and they We're always on my heart, and
they all entered the kingdom of God,
and l am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one OF
heaven on this other throne? I'm time OF
bitter persecution 1 owned house in
Damascus-a house on the wall. A man
who preached Christ was bounded from
street to street, and / hid him from the
assassins. and vshen found them break
ing in my house and l could no longer
keep him safely / advised him to flee for
his life, and a basket vas let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in 1t,
and was one who helped hold the rope. q
And | said, us that all?" And he an
swered, ''That is all,'
And while was lost in amazement
heard a strong voice that sounded az
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. y
And I looked to see from whence the
voice came, and. 10! it was the very one
who had said, Through window In
basket was 1 let down by the wall"
EFFECT OF TRIPLES.
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nifcant. A little thing may decide you1
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 few yards of her demolition on
Nantucket shoals. A siKpenny nail came
near wrecking Cunarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
Administer seated in Boston at his table
lacking 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. 4
minister in Jamaica at night by the ligh
of an insect, called the candIefy, is KEEP
from stepping over precipice hundred
feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated
| English clergyman, said that he entered
| the ministry from train of circum
stances started by the barking of dog
| Had the wind blown one way on a Ger
| tain day the Spanish inquisition woult
| have been established in England, but i
blew the other way, and that dropped
the accused institution with $4,000 ton
of shipping to the bottom Of the sea O
flung the splintered logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life o
mine. Three ciphers placed on the RICH
side of the figure l mako thousand, ant
| six ciphers on the right side of the fgur
l million, and our nothingness place.
on the right side may be augmentation
illimitable. All the ages of time an
eternity affected by the basket let dow
| from Damascus balcony!