NOTHING IS INSIGN! [FICANT Dr. Talmage Gives Instances of On What a Slender Thread Great Resuits Hang. A Little Thing May Decide Your Fate—The Importance of Trifles. {Copyright 1801.) wasmxaros, D. C.—A Bible fncident not often noticed is here used by Dr. Tal mage to set forth practical and beautiful truth; text, II. Corinthians xi, 33, “Through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall’ Sermons on Paul in jail, Paul on Mars hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul before the sanhedrin, Paul before Felix, are plentiful, but in my text we have Paul in a basket. Damascus is a city of white and glisten- ing architecture, sometimes ci alled “the eve of the East,” sometimes called “a peari surrounded by Er Ids at one time distinguished for swords of the best material called Damascus blades and up- holstery of richest fabric called damask. A horseman of the name of Saul riding toward this city had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had drop ped under a flash from the sky which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, and I think so permanently injured eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Da- mascus to Dee Christians, but afte: that hard f from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Da- mascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. ; The mayor authority rest, and the popular cry is. kill him!” The city is high wall, and the gates are tched by the police lest the Cilician preacher es cape. Many of the houses are built on the wall, and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens out side. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the {nonastery of Mount Sinal are lifted and let down in baskets Detectives prowled around from house to house loeking for Paul, but his friends hid him now in one place, now in another. He is no coward, as fifty incidents in his life demonstrate, but he feels his work is not done yet, and so he evades assassina- tion. “Is that preacher here?’ the foam. ing mob shout at one house door. “Is that fanatic here?” the police shout at an- other house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clinched fists. il sometimes he sec himself on the house top. At last the in- furiate populace get on sure track of him They have positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the ( ‘hristis ang, the bal cony of whose home reaches the wall. “Here he is! Here he is!” The vo- ciferation and blasphemy and | the pursuers are at the front d break in. “Fetch out that let us hang his head on t city Where is he?” The emergency was ble. Providentially there stout basket in the house, fasten a rope to the baske into it. The backet is lift of the balcony on the wall Paul hold rope with his for his ar- “Kill him, i led by a gives surrou relies aver term 18 the friends lower away ly, slowly but farther down, earth and the and alone starts on f ary tour of which sarth and heaven. Appr Paul’ s diary of travels: ’ ugh a dow in a basket was I let down by w Io Care fu surely, f it til aposiie Ws Dsson- fas yprinte entry 3 ‘ % Lhe story asionisne bserve first on what great results hb ang The twisted that cord ing basket never knew depend upon the stren: had been broken had been dashed out? i become of the C hristian Chu magnificent MISSIONArY . lia, Cappadocia, Galatia edt nia, wor wild never have been accomphshed. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of the New Testa ment would never have heen written The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriousiv told as he told it That example of heroic and trinmphant endurance at Philippi. in the Mediterra- nean Euoroclydon, under flagellation and at his beheading would not have kindled the courage of 10.000 martyrdoms. But that rope holding that basket, how much depended on it! So again and again great results have hung on slender circum stances, Did ever many thousand crossing the sea have such an important yassenger as had once a boat of leaves rom taffrail to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat of bitumen and floating on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the Jews on board? What if some crocodile should erunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the portholes, ready to open battle. But the tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the lawgiving. On bow fragile a craft sailed how much of historical importance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, on fire in the night, and the father he] through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground. but one remains in the consuming building. That one awakes and, finding his bed on fire and the build- ing crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their hod: ies, one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descends—John Weasley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants. ark the mill ions of Methodis sts on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all around the world. Ask their hundreds of thou sands already ascended to join their foun der, who would have perished but for the living stairs of peasants’ shoulders An English ship stopped at Piteairn Island, and right in the midst of surround- ing cannibalism and squalor the passen- gers discovered a Christian colony of Shires and schools and beautiful homes and highest style of religion and civiliza: tion, ye fifty years no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why thie oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disaster, od one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and tock out a Bible which his mother had placed there bo swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides until the rough and vi. cious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established and the world’s history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transformation of 3 hation by one book. It did not seem of h importance whether the sailor con- ed d the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon that small ¢ circumstance depended what mighty Practical inference: There ave no ins nificanges in lite. da Rinutest thing . part of a magnitu t: of infinitesimals; great thin 4 nr tion of small oy Beth [ulling on on a Sar in the Kasten av th renched a or’ a 4 ane s mou evange jitude. One of the ie pap on le freighted with gatene and ship of for you know not how much may depend on your workmanship. If you fashion a boat, let it be waterproof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your boy as he goes from home, let it be remembered in your prays ers, for it may have a mission as far-reach- ing as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest man’s life is an island be- tween two ecternities—eternity past Hp pling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened go, are paris of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Da- mooring the ship of the church in the storm of the centuries. Again, notice unrecognized corded service. Who spun Who tied it to the baakiet? Who steadied the illustrious preacher it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched the ground and discharged its magnificent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all earth compared with the importance of their work. they had in their agitation that could slip? What 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! They held the rope and in doing so did 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 Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Co- lossians, to the Thessalonians, and when they heard how he walked out of prison, with the earthquake unlocking the Sogr for him, and took command of the Ale andrian ship when the sailors were nearly scared to death and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat! 1 hear the men and wom- en who helped him dow n through the win dow and over the wall talkin g in private over the matter and saving: “How glad 1 am that we effected that rescue! In com: ing times others may get the glory ol Paul's work, but no shall rob us of the satisfaction o f 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 hissed against the boilers. It 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. 1 do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship withgut thanking Andrews, and when vears after I heard of his death | was im: pelled to write a letter of condolence 1 his family in Liverpool. Everybe ody rec ognized the goodness, * courage, the kindness f (Captain Andrews, but it oo curs to me now that we thanked the He stood away down in the { doing than ked the en nized hi her ism » and his fidelit ¥, eward for y it, ax for on the bri f the howling tem and unre- the corn one never engineer, darkness amd the hissing Nobody firnaces, and high the t of sigh lge ol £0 rig up and sccost cle of heavenly thrones killed in battle a wey must have been the ad counding a all the cities mal grief. Who art thou, one of heaven? “1 lived by choice ghier of an humble ke care of my par vd 1 endured with quergiousness and eir wants for twenty on round the circle thou, mighty one of thirty-five years » suffered all the ith all and all the the towers of nats fet us pass Who art “1 was for yristian invalid and le, oceasionally writ ng a note of sym pathy for those worse off than I, and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, anc re in awhile I was strong enough to 1 a garment for that poor family in the back lone.” Pass on to an other throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I 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 and I have had full reward for all " Yet us pass on in the etrele of thrones, “I had a Sabbath-schoo! class, and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival.” But who art thou, mighty one of heaven, on this other throne? “In time of bitter persecu- tion 1 owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall, A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, I hid bim from the assassins, and when 1 found them breaking into my house and I could no longer keep him safe- Iv. 1 advised him to flee for his dear life, and a basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and I wes one who helped hold the rope.” And 1 said, “Is that all?” And he answered, “That is all.” amazement I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from triumphant as though it might have be. longed to one of the martyrs, and it said, “Not many mighty, not many nobie, 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, Wives, my foul and whence the it was the very one And I looked to see from voice came, and. lo, who had said, basket was | let down by the wall!” Henceforth think of nothing as inwig- nificant, for New York. in putting up a stove in the pilot box a You know how that nail would affect the compass. that distracted compass, put the ship 200 the man on the lookout cried, ho!” and the shi tucket shoals, “Land was halted on Nan- sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty estinies, A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puis his hand behind his head 8 tilts his chair to think, and the biling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night by phe light of an insect called the candle fly is kept from stepping over a precipice a Bun dred feet. W. Robertson, the cele: brated English clergyman, said that he en the ministry from a train of cir cumstances started the barking of a uy the wind blown gne ay on a A oer tain day the a ianish inition have been estab n" Eland, Dut but it blew the other way, and that the accursed institution, with Seventy tons of shipping, to the hot he a hs Jom - Fide Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. ree naugh Rd the Tight wide of the figure ofie make a thousand, and #ix naughts on the right side of the n ud our 2o ingness one n hn i ses, or. fung't HL 2 imate fe Ape nay De ted 1p dk let down irom 4 LATEST HAPPENINGS ALL OVER THE STATE Killed by a Train Whilz Pullicg His Companion Off the Track. WONDERFUL NERVE OF W, WESTCOTT Killed Herself, But Failed Hesband-— Thieve: implen:ents to Force a Door Farmers’ Exposit'on Attended by Thousands at Mt. Gretaa-— Other Lise News Pensions Graoted to Poison Her Minister's Lecd » Martha ; Tham Hil Brown, nderstorm death a h he wore str ith sta was wninit t Dilenders’ Associatio t Infantry Rifle Company 32d anniversary of it it Dallastown, wher Yere give Samuel presided at ‘he bane banaiet i a 1 their guests neler anne! apa : address The one hundred and twent; eighth annual business meeting of the ty tor Propagating the Gospel! Among the tHieathen was held in the Moravian chap. *; at Dethlchom William Smith, of Lebanon, may los fie sight as a result of being struck hy flving glass in a Cornwa’'l & Leha no passenger train. A boy threw a through a car window, Milton M. Butz, of Schuyikill Hav a Jainter, fcll from a scaffo'd in Potts. ille and sustained injuries {rom which hte died. These fourihclase postmasters for Pennsylvania were appointed: D, S McCurdy, Faunetsburg: E. Robin. a, Walnut. William Westman, of Lancauer, lel} fromm the third floor of a stable down an clevator shaft, sustaining fata) injuries. Rudolph Chicock, of Turkey Run, committed suicide at Shenandoah by drowning himself in a mine branch Thirty girls employed as knitters a: Dobbins’ hosiery mill, South Bethe hicnin, struck for h gher wages, Jolin A. Dotter, aged 74 years. and ane of the best known millers in Leban- on county died at his home in Kast Hanover Township. Charles R. Reed, of Schrader, was fund dead with his face in a mud pod. dlc on the public road near Si tersvile. it 1s supposed he had an attack of epi iepsy. =n € Y stone COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. 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