Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-26

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earthly timepieces-have passed we
! shall meet and talk with more heaven
! ~ celebrities than In our entire mortal
| state we met with earthly celebrities.
! Many wEo made great noise of useful
! ness will sit on the last seat by the
| front door of the heavenly temple,
! while right up within arms reach of
! the heavenly throne will be m1ny who,
though they could not preach them
| selves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
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 a 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 in an humble home that L
might take care of my parents in their
old age, and I endured without COM
plant all their righteousness and adj
ministered to all their wants for 20
years. Let US pass on round the circle
of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one
Of heaven? 81 was for 80 years a
Christian invalid and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing a note Of
sympathy for those worse off than 1,
and was general conf1dant of all those
who had trouble, and once in awhile I
was strong enough to make garment
for that poor family in the back lane"
Pass OH to another throne. Who art
thou, mighty one of heaven? 81 was
the mother who raised 4 whole family
Of children for God, and they are out
in the world Christian merchants,
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 l am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one Of
heaven, on this other throne? "In time
of bitter persecution | owned q house
in Damascus, a house on the wall. A
man who preached Christ was bounded
from street to street, and 1 hid him
from the assassins, and when 1 found
them breaking into my house and 1
could no longer keep him safely 1 adj
a basket was let down over the wall
with the maltreated man in it, and
was one who helped hold the rope"
And I said, rs that alp" And he an
swered, THAT is ALL" And while was
lost in amazement 1 heard a strong
voice that sounded as though it might |
once have been hOarse from many eX-
pOsures and triumphant as though 1t /
might have belonged to one Of the mar
tyrs, and it said, Not many mighty, not I
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 pres
ence." And I looked to see from whence
the voice came. and, 10, it was the very
one who had said, Through n window
in basket was l let down by the
wailr'
Nothing Is insignificant.
HencefOrth think of nothing as in
significant. \ little thing may decide
your all. \ Cunarder put out from Eng
land for New York. 1t was we'll equip
ped, 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, Land hO.' and the
ship was halted within Il few yards Of
her demolition on Nantucket shoals. a
sixpenny nail came near wreclling a
Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty
deStinieS.
A minister seated in Boston at his Ia
ble lacking a word, puts his hand be-
hind his head and tits back his chair
to think, and the ceiling falls and
brushes the table and would have
crushed him. A minister in jamaica 1T
night by the light Of an insect called
the candle fly is kept from stepping
over a precipice Il hundred feet. f. w.
the celebrated English cler-
gyman, said that he entered the minis
try from train OF circumstances start
ed by the barking of a dog. Had the
wind blown one way on certain day
the Spanish inquisitiOn would have
been established in England, but it
blew the other way, and that dropped
the accused institution, with 80 tons
Of shipping, to the bottom of the 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
and six naughts on the right
side of the figure one a million, and our
placed on the right side