Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-02-10

gone there was nothsng for them Co do
Six thousand people Ina one cioisscr
were consumed There were I. 100. 600
dead. according to JosephuN Gro,iu.
thinks that this WAS the eeuxs Of
silcnce In Heaven for half an hour. II
Mr. Lord was right aud this siisncs
was during the Dsocletian prosecutions.
by which see. 600 Christians suffered
death FROM Aword and are and eAnish.
mspt aud exposur~ why did nos
Heaven listsn throughout ~ leas, one
OF those awful yeArss Mol Thirty
minuses' The fact IL that ale Celestial
programme 10 - crowded with apec-
tacles that II can afford only one receas
in NIL eternity. and that for . sherN
space. While there ere rrssS
choruses In which al Heaven can toin
each soul there haa = story Of Divine
mercy peculiar 10 itseif and 10 must be
. solo How can Heaven get through
with oil its r~citativee with all its cam
tasas with all ia grand marches. with
all its victories9 Eternity IL too shor.
To utter all ia praise. In nv text
Heaven spared thirty minutes. but 10
will never again spare one minute. In
worship in earthly churches where
there are many to take part, We have
To counsel brevity; but how will Heaven
get on rapidly enough To let the i<<. 600
set through each with his own story.
ard then the is-. ooo 600. and then the
is%o oa 600, 600. aud then the lee. 600. :
600. ooo. 200
Not only are all the triumphs of the
past TO be cou,mcmorntcd. but all the
triumphs To come. Not only what we
know of God, but what we will know
OF Him after everlasting study of the
Dcihc. II my text had said there va
silence in Heaven for thirty days.
would not have been startled At the an
nounccment but i, indicates thirty
minutes Why. there will lie 80 many
friends TO hunt up; so many OF the
greatly good and useful that we will
want to sec; SO many OF the tnscruta BILE
things OF earth we will need explain
cd; 30 many exciting earthly sxpe-
ricnccs we viii want To talk over. and
all the other spirits and oil the ages
Will want the same, that there will be
no more opportunity for cessation.
How busy we will be kept In having
pointed out To us the heroes and hero.
ines that the world never fully sppre-
ciated-thc yellow fever and cholera
doctors who died not flying from their
posts; the female nurses who faced pes
thence In the laIarettos; the railroad
engineers who stayed mt their places in
order To save tho train, though they
themselves persisted. Hubert 0ofiin.
the master miner. who. landing from
the bucket at the bottom of the mine,
just as he heard the waters rush in.
and when one jerk OF the rope would
have lifted him into safety. put blind
miner who wanted TO 60 To his sick
child in the bucket and jerlsed tho rope
for him To be pulled mp, crying: Tell
them the water has burst in and we
arc probably lost; but We will seek ref.
uge ut the other end OF the right gal
lery," and then giving the command 20
the other miners till they dragged
themselves 40 near ont that the peo-
pie from the outside could come 10
their rescue The multitudos OF mcn
and women who got no crown on Garth.
we will want TO see when they ge,
their crown In Heaven. I tell you,
Heaven will have no moro half hours
to- spare.
Besides that Heaven IL full OF chill.
dren. They arc in the vast majority.
No child on earth who amounts TO any
thing can be kept quiet half an hour
and how are you going to keep 500, 600.
600 OF them quiet half an hour? You
know Heaven Is much moro OF n place
than IL was when that recess OF thirty
minutes occurred. Its population ha,
quadrupled. sextupled. centuplcd
Heaven has more on hand. more of rap
ture, more OF knowledge. more OF in
accommodation, more OF Worship
There is not much difference be
tween brooklyn scvcnty-five year.
ago, when there were a few houses
down on the East river and the village
reached up only 10 Sands street a.
compared with what this great city 4.
now--yca. not so much difference be-
tween New York when Canal street
was far up town and now when Canal
street Is far downtown than there is 3
difference between what Heaven wa.
when my text was written aud what
Heaven Is now. The most thrilling
place we have ever been IN in stupid
compared with that. and. IL we now
have no time 10 spare we will then
have no eternity To spare. Silence in
Heaven only half an hour.
My subject also imprcsse> me with
the immortality OF n half hour. That
half hour mentioned in my text is more
! widely known than any other period In
the calendar OF Heaven. None of the
whole hours OF Heaven are measured
off. none OF the Yeas. none OF the cen.
| turtles OF the millions OF ages past and
the millions OF ages 10 come. not one i,
especially measured Oft in the Bible.
The half hour Of my text il made i'm.
mortal The only part OF eternity that
was ever measured BY earthly time.
piece was measured by the minute hand
OF my text Oh, the half hours They
decide everything
! am not asking what you will dc
1 with the years or months or days oil
/ your life, but what Of the hair hours
Tell me the history of your half hours
and ] viii tell you the story Of your
/ whole life ON earth and the story OF
l ycur whole life in eternity. The right
4 or wrong things you can think in thir-
/ " minutes, the right or wrong things
you can say In thirty minutes the right
or wrong things You can do In thirty
minutes are glorious or balefui. inspir-
inc or Geepc rate Tanok out for