The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-31
IN A BASKET.
Draws His Sermon
rh;s Bible Incident.
,.,,pIe,s Provfdentfa1
of INV .he Infatuated Mob
'' .na the Lesson 1t
reaches.

reaches. !
,,,ted. 1901, by Louis lag Kdppsch' ~ H.
..o;dent not often noticed is
O BE by Dr.. Talmage to set forth
stu and beautiful truth; text, H.
eal s11:3S: Through window
thla wasIlet down by the wall"
aske' M Paul in Jail, Paul on
n i"l paul in the shipwreck, Paul
hlln ~sanhedrin, Paul before
,re plentiful, but in my text we
fa .nns is a city of white and glis.
m0~ahitecture, sometimes called
of the east" sometimes called
el., srrrounded by emeralds,' at
t'ms distinguished for swords OF
n' material, called Damascus
Otsa md upholstery of richest fabric
Samask. A horseman of the
u Saul. riding toward this city
s.sn thrown from the saddle. The
had dropped under a flash from
Ky, which at the same time SO
sA.';;+ blinded the rider for many
and. | think, so permanently in.
his eyesight that his defect OF
hacame the thorn in the flesh he
(.,,ord speaks of. He started Tor
.eous to butcher Christians, but
:. that hard fall from his horse he
changed man and preached
t. in Damascus till the city was
Ken to its foundation.
me- mayor gives authority for his
~, and the popular cry is; Kill
KIN hint" The city is surround
hv a high wall and the gates are
,cbed by the police lest the Cilician
[,cber escape. Many of the houses
|, hniIt on the wall, and their balco-
|. projected clear over and lowered
Bozs the garden outside. 1t was GUS
- 70 lower baskets out of these
l%I.onies and pull up fruits and flow
| from the gardens. To this day Wis
N ~ 49,
L. at the monastery of Mount Sinai
|. lifted and let down in baskets. De-
I[S.iyes prowled around from house
| house looking for Paul, but his
Lands hid him, now in n place, now
| another. He is no coward, as so in
{dsn,s in his life demonstrate, but hi
LIZ his work is not done yet, and 81
|. eyades assassination. rs tina
Irs.cber here?" the foaming mol
Kant at one house door. us that ia
k,tic here?'' the police shout at anoth
4 bouse door. Sometimes on the stree
|ncopnito he passes through a cloud o
tipcbed fists and sometimes he sc
Iretes himself on the house top.
Nlastthe infuriated populace get o
.pre track of him. They have positiv
Evidence that he is in the house of on
IN the Christians, the balcony of who's
home reaches over the wall. Here b
h, Here he isl" The v~ociferation an
and bowling of the purs'
srs are at the front door. They brea
N. Fetch out that gospelizer and II
us hang his head on the city gat
Where is hep" The emergency waste
rib,e. Providentially there was a goo
stout basket in the house. Pau
friends fasten a rope to the baske
Paul steps into it. The basket is lift
to the edge of the balcony on the wa
and then, while Paul holds the no
with both hands his friends low
away. carefully and cautiously, slow
but surely, farther down and farth
down. until the basket strikes t
Earth and the apostle steps out a
afoot and alone starts out on that
nous missionary tour the story
which has astonished earth and He'
en-. Appropriate entry in Paul's dia
Of travels: Through a window II
basket was I let down by the WALL
observe first on what a slender t
ure great results hang. The 70
maker who twisted that cord faster
to that lowering basket never XII
how much would depend upon
strength of it. How if it had been br
en- and the apostles life had b
dashed out? What would have becc
Of the Christian church? All that n
nifcent missionary work in Pamphy
~Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia VIC
never have been accomplished. All
writings that make up so indispel
bic and enchanting a part OF the
Testament would never have
written. The story of the resurrec
would never have been so glorlo
told as he told it. That exampleof h
ic and triumphant endurance at Ph
pi, in the Mediterranean Eurocly
under fagellation, and at his beh
ing would not have kindled the cou
of 10000 martyrdoms. But that
holding that basket, how much DEF
ed on it! So again and again grea
suits have hung on slender CIR
sNduCts.
Did ever ship of many thousand
crossing the sea have such an in
tant passenger as had once a DO
leaves, from t~affrail to stern only
or four feet, the vessel being "
proof by a coat of bitumen and flo
or the Nile with the infant lawgi'
the Jews on board? What if some
odile should crunch it? What If
Of the cattle wading in for a
should sink it? Vessels of war
times carry 40 guns looking III
the portfolios ready to open battl
the tiny craft on the Nile seems
armed with all the guns of tn
that bombarded Sinai at the lawg