Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 March 1894 — Page 6

* -!- UNAPPRECIATED ACTS. Hev. Dr. Talmoge Talks Upon Apparently Trivial Things That Frequently head to Great Results— The Conversion of Paul and the Means Used in Its Accomplish-ment-Other Instances.

While absent on a visit to the south Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage made selection of sermons to be sent out to his fjreat congregation throughout the world of newspaper readers. The following discourse is based on the text: Through a window in a basket I was let down by tho wall—11 Corinthians, x 1. 33. Damascus is a city of white and glistening architecture sometimes called ■“the eye of the east,” sometimes “a pearl surrounded by emeralds,” at one time distinguished for swords of the "best material called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damasks. A horseman called by the name of Paul, riding towara this city, had been throwh from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from tne sky, which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many* days, and I think so permanently inc jured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority for his arrest, and the popular cry is: “Kill him! Kill him!” The city is surrounded by a bigh wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the' Cilician preacher escape. Many of the houses are built on the wall, and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this daj’ visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in basl?ets. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him now in •one place, now in another. lie is no ■coward, as fifty incidents in his life demonstrate. But lie feels his work is not done yet/and so he evades assassination. “Is that preacher here?” the foaming mob shout at one house door. “Is that fanatic here?” the police shout at another house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clinched fists, and sometimes he secretes himself on the lionse-top. At last the infuriated populace get on sure track of him. They have positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Cliristians.'the balcony of whose home reaches over the wall. “Here he is! Here he is!” The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. “Fetch out that gospelizerj, and let us hang bis he$d on the city gate. .Where is he?” The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the basket Paul steps into it. The basket is -lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds on to the rope with both hands his friends, lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly but surely, further down and further down, until the basket strikes 4he earth and the apostle steps out, ^and afoot and alone starts on that famous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and Heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary of travels: “Through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall.” ■Observe, first, on what a slender tenure great results hang. The ropetnaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew bow much would depend •” on the •strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostle’s life had been dashed out? What would have become -of the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphylia, ■Oappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia would • never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable ' and enchanting a part "of the New Testament would never have been wriiten. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as he told it. The example of heroic aud triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean euro- - clydon, under flagellations and at bis beheading would not have kindled the '-courage of ten thousand martyrdoms. But the rope holding that basket, how much depended on it! So again - and again great results have hung on ' what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship of many thousand tons •■crossing the sea have such important ■passenger as had a boat of -leaves,

from taifrau to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof iby a coat of bitumen and floating on “the Nile with the infant lawmaker of th« Jews on board? What if some crocodile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a shrink should sink it? Vessels of war ^sometimes carry forty guns looking through the portholes, ready to open battle. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the ,-guns of thunder lhat bombarded .Sinai at the law-givittg. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance. I The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the father rushes through the hallway for the res- • cue pf his children. Seven children are out and safe on the grounds, but .one remains in the consuming building. That one wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulders •of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descended—John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations ali round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousand* already ascended to join *

their founder, who would have perished but for the living1 stair of peasants’ shoulders. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and. right in the midst of surrounding cannibalism and squalor, the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful homes and highest style of religion and civilization. For fifty years no missionaary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disaster and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had placed “■there, and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established, and the world’s history has no more brilliant page thaq that which tells of the transformation of a nation by one* book. It did not seem of much importance whether the sailor cbntinued to hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon what small circumstance depended

what mighty results. Practical inference: There are no insignificances in our lives. The minutest thing is part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of Infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Bethlehem manager pulling on a star in the eastei n sky. One book in a drenched sailor’s mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. What you do, do well. If you make a rope make it strong and true,' for you know not how milch may depend on your workmanship. If you fashion a boat let it be water-proof, 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 heard in your praj'ers, for it may have a mission as far-reaqhing as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach- The plainest man’s life is an island between two eterni-^ ties—eternitjr past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened, so, are parts of a great plan* and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. Again notice unrecognized and unrecorded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into 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 nor in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitation tied a 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! 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 eternal record of their undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when they read His letter^ to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexandrian corn-ship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat. I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in private over the matter, and saying: “How glad I am that we have effected that rescue! In coming 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.” There are said to be about sixty-nine thousand ministers of religion in this country. About fifty thousand I warrant came from e^rly homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons of rich bankers and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who

become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their everyday bread. The collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for eight years. The other children were more scantily apparelled. The son at college every little while got a bundle from home. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delicacies from the sister’s hand for the voracious appelate j of a hungry student. The years go bv, and the son has been ordained and is preaching the glorious Gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept «the Gospel from the lips of the young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son of the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comfortable, saying if they want anything in the night just to knock on the wall. And then ajl alone father and mother talk over the gracious influence of the day, and say: “Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy! It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know it, but, mother, we held the rope, didn’t we?” And the voice, tremulous with joyful emotion, responds: “Yes, father;

we held the rope. I feel my work is done.. Now, Lord, It ttest thou thy serva,nt depart in pea* e, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.*’ “Pshaw!” says the father, “I never felt so much like living in my life as now. I want to sett what that fellow is going on to do, he has begun so well.” Onee for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights and rush'd down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awi’ul time; but by the. blessing of God and the faithfulness of the man in charge we came out of the cyclone and we rrived at home. Each one before leaving the ..ship thanked Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman went off that’ ship without thanking Capt. Andrews, and when, years after, I heard of his death, I was impeled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Every >ody.recognized the goodness, the courage, the kind

ness of Capt Andrews, but it occurs to me,now that we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing’ furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, 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 the captain who stood On the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest Come, let us go right up and accost those on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities toiling the national grief. Who art Thou, mighty one of Heaven? “I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a humble home that I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaints all their querulousness and ministered to all th^ir wants for twenty years.” Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven? “I was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and suffered all the while, occasionally writing a note of sympathy for those worse off than I, and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and once in awhjle I was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane.” Pass on to another 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 merchants, Christian mechanics Christian wives, and I have had full rewared of all my toil.” Let, us pass on in the circle of thrones. “I had a Sabbathschool 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, the mighty one of Heaven on this other throne? “In time of bitter persecution I owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached' Christ was hounded from street to street, and I hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking in my house, and I could no longer keep him safely, I advised him to flee for his life, and a basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and I was one who helped hold the rope.” And I said: “Is that ail?” and he answered: “That is all.” And while I was lost in amazement, I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from many exposures and triumphant as though it might have belong-ed 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 tc naught things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.” And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it w as the very dne who had said: “Through a window in a basket was I let d own by the wall.” Henceforth think of nothing as insignificant. 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. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship’s officer, deceived by that distracted compass, put the hip two hundred miles off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried: “Land, ho!” and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail came near wrecking a Cunarddr. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word he puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table a d would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night by the light of an insect, called the candle-fly, is kept from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he ente red the ministry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way on a certain day, the Spanish inquisition would have been established in England; but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-five thousand tons of shipping, to the bottom of the,sea, or flung the splintered loss on the rocks.

Nothing’ unimportant in your life or mine.'’ Three ciphers plaeed on the right side of the figure “1” to make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure *T”a million, and our nothingness plaod on the right side may be augments tion illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony! —The Bible, as a v hole, is the best treatise on sound and successful business principles and £ -actice that can. I be consulted by any ore.

THE ENTIRE CREW SHOT. Tlie-Trairlc Ending of an Eventful Voyage, In Behalf .of the Haytlnn Rebels. By the Steam Yacht Natalie, with Arms and Ammunition for the Use of Gen. Maniacal Against President lllppolyt*.! Jamaica, March 12.—The steam racht Natalie, which was purchased in Sew York and sailed from Savannah January 19, with arms and ammunition to be used by Gen. Maningat in in attempt to overthrow President Bippolyte of Hayti. has been captured by the Haytians and taken to a HayLian port. Her cargo was taken and her entire crow were shot by order of President Hippolyte. When the Natalie left Savannah it was understood that her destination was Morant Keyes, Jamaica. From the time of her departure until her arrival at Nassau, N. P., on February 4, nothing was heard of her and it was supposed she had been lost or captured, and it was even alleged that she had been secretly sold with her cargo to

Hippolyte. Her captain reported that he had put into Nassau under stress of weather, but Gen. Maningat had conceived the idea that he had been betrayed, and refused to go on board the yacht, fearing that the captain of the Natalie was playing a game to sell him into the hands of the Haytian government. The Natalie was suspected of being engaged in violation of British neutrality laws and was searched, but nothing was discovered to justify seizure, and she was not held. She sailed on February 9, and the same night ran aground on Egg Island reef, from which she was helped off by local wreckers. A few days later the Natalie was discovered by a passing vessel anchored off Fortune island, about 400 miles north of Hayti, and a Haytian gunboat was also anchored in Close proximity to her. Subsequently it was learned that President Hippolyte had expressed his determination that the Natalie’s cargo of arms and ammunition should not- fall into the hands of his enemies and had g-iven orders that in case she should attempt to leave Fortune island she must be seized immediately by the Haytian gunboat. Which had been on the lookout for some time before her arrival at Fortune islands. The Natalie was a very small boat, only twenty-nine tons. It is said that she was commanded by Antonine Salini, who has been identified for years with the enemies of the Haytian republic. ulN CONSULTATION/ The ■ President and Secretary Carlisle Spend Several Hours in Discussing Treasury Affairs-! Washington, March 13.—President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle spe-nt several hours Saturday afternoon at the executive mansion discussing treasury affairs. This was the first time since the president’s return from his hunting trip in the North Carolina swamps that he has been able to give several hours uninterrupted time to any one cabinet officer. It is believed the policy of the administration as to the silver seigniorage bill was the principal topic of conference. During the past week many statements have been made as to the probable action of the president in the event of the seigniorage bill passing the senate. So far no authorized expression of opinion emanating from -either the president or Secretary Carlisle has been given to the public. The opinion is expressed by a treasury official, known to possess the confidence of both the president and Secretary Carlisle, that the president’s mind on the silver seigniorage bill has not been made up. but that he is liable to switch in his decision by the action of the senate, especially if the vote by which the bill passes is very large and the majority represents a preponderance of democratic senators. The treasury department is ready to begin the coinage of the silver bullion at any moment, should the bill become a law. Another subject said to have been considered is the Roosevelt civil service repftrt criticising the action of Secretary Carlisle in regard to treasury changes. • *

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH, As Read to Parliament, a Model of Brevity, London, March 12. — The qneen’s speech, which will be read to parliament to-day is, as was predicted, much briefer than usual. Her majesty congratulates the members upon the continuance of Great Britain’s friendly re-1 lations to the powers. She mentions the satisfactory conclusion of the Behring sea arbitration as especially gratifying. She refers to the Anglo-Russian 'negotiations concerning frontiers in middle Asia and the Anglo-Chinese arrangements as regards the borders of Burmah, and expresses her regret for the encounter between French and British near Wanna, northwest Africa. The encounter is mentioned as a “lamentable failure.” -t L The speech proposes in domestic politics the expected programme, with two or three additions. The measures recommended are the abolition of plural voting, the extension of Scotch local government; the organization of boards ot conciliation to settle labor troubles, the amendment of the factory acts, the disestablishment of the church in Wales, the relief of evicted tenan ts in Ireland and registration reform. % o M. B. L'nrtia* Lnwjrer Says the Actor Admitted Killing Policeman Grant. San Francisco, March 12.—Details of a confession alleged to have been made by M. B. Curtis, the actor who was recently acquitted of the charge of killing Policeman Grant, were printed here yesterday. The lawyer who defended Curtis is said to have given to the chief of police the substance of the confession made to him by Curtis on the night of the killing. The statement in effect is that Curtis admitted he shot the policeman after being placed under arrest for being lisorderlv and drunk.

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