Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-09-05

How exuitant 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
lossians. to the Thessalonans, 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 of 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: "Ho'E glad !
am that we effected that rescue. In com.
ing times others may get the glory OF
PauIs work. but no one shall rob rs OF
the satisfaction OF knowing that we held
the rope"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to go 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.
It was an awful time. bat by the Blessing
of God and the faithfulne@s Of the men in
charge came OUT of the cyclone. and
we arrived ar home Each one before
leaving the ship thanked Captain An
drew3. l DO not think there was a man
or woman that went of that ship without
thanking CAPTAIN Andrews, and when
years after | heard OF his death | was i'm
PEELED to write a letter of coincidence to
his family in Liverpool. Everybody rec
ognized the goodness. the courage. the
kindness OF Captain Andrews, but il oc-
ours to me n ow that we never thanked g.
engineer. Ee stood away down in the
darkness amid the kissing furnaces. doing
his whole duty. Nobody thanked tie en-
gineeT, 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. for
the captain, who stood the bridge oil
the ship in the midst of the bowling tenn
pest.
Come, let US 60 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? Il 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? Il was for thirty-fve years a
Christian invalid and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing note of SYM
pathy for those worse off than /, and was
trouble, and once in awhile [ was strong
enough to make a garment for that poor
family in the back lane" Pass on to an
other throne. Who art thou mighty one
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 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 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
house and | could no longer keep him safe
ly, [ advised him to flee for his dear life.
and a basket was let down over the wall
with the maltreated man in it, and [ was
one who helped hold the rope And [
said, "Is that all?" And he answered,
THAT is ALL And while I was lost in
management l 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
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"
And [ looked to see from whence the
voice came, and, 10, it was the very one
who had said, Through a window in a
basket was [ let down by the WALTZ
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nifcant. little thing may decide your
all A Cunarder put out from England
for New York. 1t was well equipped, but
in putting up stove in the pilot box a
nail was driven too near the compass.
gu know how that nail would affect the
compass. The ships officers deceived by
that distracted compass, put the shin 900
miles oil her right course and suddenly
the man on the lookout cried, Land
no.: and the ship was halted on Nan
tucket shoals. A siXpenny nail came
near Wreckng a Cunarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a. 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.
minister in Jamaica at night by the
light Of an insect called the candle fly is
kept from stepping over a precipice hum
dred feet. F. W. Robertson, the cele-
brated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from a train of cir
cumstances started by the barking of q
dog.
Had the wind blown one way on a GER
tain day the Spanish Inquisition would
have been established in England. but it
blew the other way, and that dropped
the accursed institution, with seventv-fve
tons of shipping, to the bottom of the
sea or flung the splintered logs on the
rocks
Nothing unimportant in your life or
side Of the figure one make a thousand.
and six naughts on the right side of the
figure one a million, and our nothingness
placed on the right side may be augmcn-
tation iliimtabe All the ages of time
and eternity affected by the basket let
down from Damascus balcony.