Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-08-30

but there was no work done that day in
Damascus or in all earth compared with
the Importance of their work. What il
they had in their agitation tied knot
that could slip? What if the sound of
the mob at the door had led them to say,
paul must take care of himself and we
will take care of ourselves" No, no!
more for the Christian church than any
thousand of us will ever accomplish. But
God knows and has made record of their
undertaking. And they know.
How exultant they must have felt when
they read his letters to the Romans, to
the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the
Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Co
lossans, to the Thessalonians, and when
they heard how he walked out of prison,
with the earthquake unlocking the door
for him, and took command of the Alex
andrian corn ship when the sailors were
nearly scared to death and preached
sermon that nearly shook Felix off his
judgment seat [ hear the men and wom-
en- who helped him down through the win
dow and over the wall talking in private
over the matter and saying: How glad
am that we effected that rescue! In COM
ing times others may get the glory of
Paul's work. but no one shall rob us of
the satisfaction of knowing that we held
the rope"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to 20 to the bottom of the
ocean. The waves struck through the
skylights and rushed down into the hold
of the ship and Kissed against the boilers.
1t was an awful time, but by the blessing
of God and the faithfulness of the men in
charge we came out of the cyclone, and
we arrived at home. Each one before
leaving the ship thanked Captain An.
drews. / do not think there was a man
or woman that went off that ship without
thanking Captain Andrews, and when
years after 1 heard of his death l was inn
PEELED to write letter Of coincidence to
his family in Liverpool. Everybody rec
ognized the goodness, the courage, the
kindness of Captain Andrews, but it &C.
engineer. - He stood away down in the
darkness amid the kissing furnaces, doing
his whole duty. Nobody thanked the en-
gineer, but God recognized his heroism
and his continuance and his fidelity, and
there will be just as high reward for the
engineer, who worked out of sight, as for
the captain, who stood on the bridge of
the ship in the midst of the bowling tenn
pest,
Come, let us go right up and accost
those on the 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? 81 lived by choice
the unmarried daughter of an humble
home that [ might take care of my par
ents in their old age, and [ endured with
out complaint all their querulousness and
administered to all their wants for twenty
years" Let us pass on round the circle
of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of
heaven? 81 was for thirty-fve years
Christian invalid and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing note of SYM
pathy for those worse off than /, and was
general con6dant 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 an
of heaven? II 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 for 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 kingdom of God, and
] am waiting for their arrival" But who
art thou, mighty one of heaven, on this
other throne? I'm time of bitter persecu-
ton l owned a house in Damascus.
house on the wall A man who preached
Christ was bounded from street to street.
and [ hid him from the assassns, and
house and could no longer keep him safe
ly, I advised him to flee for his dear 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, as that all?" And he answered,
''That is ALL" And while / was lost in
amazement I heard strong voice that
sounded as though it might once have
been hoarse from many exposures and
triumphant as though it might have be.
longed 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
God chosen; yea, and things which are
not to bring to naught things which are.
that no flesh should glory in His presence"
And / looked to see from whence the
voice came, and. 10, it was the very one
who had said, Through window in a
basket was l let down by the WALL"
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nifcant. A little thing may decide your
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 officers, deceived by |
that distracted compass, put the ship 200 |
miles off her right course and suddenly |
the man on the lookout cried, 'Iand |
ho!" and the ship was halted on Nam
tucket 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 bis hand behind his |
head and tits back his chair to think, |
and would have crushed him.
A minister in Jamaica at night by the |
light of an insect called the candle fly is |
bred feet. f. VI. Robertson, the cele-
brated English clergyman, said that he |
entered the ministry from train of cir |
cumstances started by the barking of a |
dog.
Had the wind blown one way on GER
tain day the Spanish Inguistion would |
have been established in England, but it
blew the other way, and that dropped
the accursed institution, with seventy-fve
sea, or flung the splintered logs on the
rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine. Three naughts placed on the right
side Of the figure one make a thousand,
md six naughts on the right side of the
igure one million, and our nothingness
placed on the right side may be augmen-
alton illimitable. All the ages of time
md eternity affected by the basket let
lown from Damascus balcony.
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