Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-08-29

old age, and I endured without com
plant all their querulousness and ad-
ministered to all their wants for 20
years. Let us pass round the circle Of
thrones. Who art thou. mighty one
of heaven? Il was for 80 years
Christian invalid and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing note of
sympathy for those worse of than /,
and was general confidant Of all those
who had trouble, and once in awhile
l was strong enough to make gar
ment for that poor family in 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 7 have had full reward for
all my toll" Let us pass on in the
circle Of thrones. II 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 are thou, the
mighty one of heaven on this other
throne? I'm time of bitter persecution
/ owned house in Damascus, house
on the wall A man who preached
Christ was bounded from street to
street and hid him from the assissins.
and when found them breaking into
my house and could no longer keep
him safely + advised him to flee for
his life, and a basket was let down
over the wall with the maltreated man
in 1t, and / was one who helped hold
the rope" And | said: SIS that all?"
And he answered: That is ALL" And
while was lost in amazement l heard
strong voice that sounded as though
it might once have been hoarse from
many exposures, and triumphant as
though 1t 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 de-
spised 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 I
looked to see from whence the voice
came. and 10! it was the very one who
had said. Through a window in bas-
ket was let down by the wall"
Henceforth think of nothing as in
significant. A little thing may decide
your all. A Cunarder put out from
England for New York. It was well
equipped. but in putting up a stove in
the pilot box a nail was driven too
near the 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 sixpenny nail
came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small
ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister 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. A minister in Jamaica
at night, by the light of an insect
called the candle fly, is kept from step
ping over a precipice a hundred feet.
F. w. Robertson, the celebrated Eng
lish clergyman, said that he entered
the ministry from a train of circum-
stances started by the barking of a
dog. Had the wind blown one way on
certain day the Spanish inquisition
would have been established in Eng
land. But it blew the other way, and
that dropped the accursed institution,
with rs 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
thousand, and six naughts on the right
side Of the figure one a million, and
our nothingness placed on the right
side may be augmentation illimitable.
All the ages Of time and eternity af-
fected by the basket let down from a
Damascus balcony.