Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-02-12

the inscrutable things OF earth we will need
explained; so many exciting earthly eXper-
fences we will want to talk over, and all the
other spirits and all 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 heroines
that the world never fully appreciated-the
yellow fever and cholera doctors who died,
not flying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos;
the railroad engineers who staid at their
places in order to save the train though
they themselves perishe1
Hubert Coffin, the master miner, who
landing from the bucket at the bottom OF
the mine, just 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 go to his sick child in the
bucket AMI jerked the rope for him to be
pulled up, crying, TEL them the water has
burst in and we are probably lost but we will
seek refuge at the other end Of the right gal
lery;" and then giving the command to the
other miners till they digged themselves SO
near out that the people from the outside
could come TO their rescue. The multituies
OF men and women who got no crown on
earth will want to see when they get
their crown in heaven. | tell you heaven
will have no more half hours TO spare.
Besides that heaven is full OF children.
They are in the vast majority. No "hild on
earth that amounts to anything can be kept
quiet half an hour, and how are you going
to keep five hundred million OF them quiet
half an hour. You know heaven is much
more OF place than 1t was when that recess
Of thirty minutes occurred Its population
has qaadrupled, seItuped, centuplel
Heaven has more on hand, more OF rapture
more OF knowledge more of intercommunica-
ton, more OF worship.
There is not so much difference between
Brooklyn seventy-ive years ago, when there
were few houses down on the East river
and the village reached up only to Sands
street. as compared with what this great
city is now-yea, not SO much difference be
! tween New York when Canal street was far
up town. and now when Canal street is far
| down town, than there is difference be-
| tween what heaven was when my text was
written and what heaven is now. The most
thrilling place we have ever been in is stupid
compared with that, and if we now have no
| time to spare we will then have no eternity
to spare. Silcncs IN heaven only half an
! hour.
ny subject also impres5es M with the i'm
| mortality OF a half hour. That hllt hour
mentioned in my text is more widely known
than any other per:ol in the calendar of
heaven. None OF the whole hours OF heaven
are measured off mono of the years none o.
tue centuries vi l.lc ullIiplS vi Il Sts phSb
and the millions OF age, to come not one is
especially measure OIL in the Biole. The
half hour Of my text is made immortal. The
only part of eternity that was ever measured
by earthly tmepiece was IN assured by the
minute hand OF my text
Oh, the half hours They decide every
thing. / am not asking hat you will do
with the years or months or days OF your
life, but what of the halt hours. Tell me
the history OF your half hours and will
tell you the story OF your whole HE on earth
and the story of your whole life i'll eternity.
The right or wrong things you can think in
thirty minutes, the right or wrong things
you can say in thirty inmates, the right or
wrong things you can do in thirty minutes
are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desper-
ate LooS out for the fragments OF time.
They are pieces OF eternity.
1t was the half hours between shoeing
horses that made Elihu Burritt the learned
blacksmith; the half hours between pro-
ressional calls as IA physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philosopher; the
half hours between his duties as school
master that made Salmon Z. Chase chief
Justice; the half hours between shos lasts
that made Henry Wilson vice president OF
the United States; the half hours between
canal boats that made James A. Garfield
president.
The half hour day for good books or bad
doence, the halt hour day for helping
others or blasting others the half hour be-
fore YOU go To business and the half hour
after your return from buslness-tIat make:
the difference between the scholar and the
ignoramuS between the Christian and the
infidel, between the saint and the demon, be-
tween triumph and catastrophe, between
heaven and hell The most tremendou!
things of your life and mine were certain
half hours
The half hour when in the parsonage OF I
country minister | resolved to become q
Christian then and there; the half houl
/, when decided to become preacher OF thu
Gospel; the half hour when | first realize,
that my son was dead: the half hour whel
, stood on the top Of my houss III Oxfor,
,, street and saw our church burn: the hal
. hour in which l entered Jerusalem, til
. half hour in which | ascenced Mount Cal
: vary; the half hour Ill which l stood ol
Mars hill; the half hour IN which ths dedi
A catory prayer OF this temple was made, an
, about ten or fifteen other half hours are tn
chief times of my life. You may forget tn
+ name of the exact years or most OF the i'm
$ portant events of your existence, but thos
4 half hours like the halt nour OF my text, WI
4 be immortal.
+, do not query what you will do with tn
r Twentieth century. do no: query wha
!, YOU will do with 1892, but what will you d
Il with the next half houri Upon that hinge
your destiny. And during that some of yo
r will receive the Gospel an1 make complet
!, surrender and during that others of yo
n will make final and fatal rejection of th
n full and free and urgent and impassione
\, offer Of life eternal. Oh, that the next ha
II hour might be the most glorious thirty mit
,s utes Of your earthly existence.
II Far back in history great geographic
10 stood with sailor looking at globe thE
II represented our planet, an | he pointed to
I. ! place on the globe where he thought thel
Nj was an undiscovered continent. That Ill
r discovered continent was America. TT
Ii oeoprapher who pointel where he though
n there was new world was Martin Behain
,s and the sailor TO whom h. showed 1t w
Il Columbus This last was not sltisded till
had picked that gem OFT OF the sel aud set
N in the crown OF the worlds geography. o
le We who have been sailing up AMI down ii
II. rough seas OF sorrow and sin, let me poi
a out to you another continent, yea, auoth
H. world, that you NAV yourselves find ra
II, turous worl and that is tho world a ha
il hour OF which we now study. Oh, set 81
n, for itl Here is the ship and here are t
10 compasses.
Id In other words, make this half hour,
&c ginning at twenty minutes to twelve by Il
nj watch. the grandest half hour of your Il
or and become a Christian. Pray tor a regt
raj Grated spirit. Louis XIV, while walking
he the garden at Versailles, met Mansari, t
.c. GREAT architect, and the architect took
all his hat before the king. "Put on your ha
said the king, ".or the evening is damp a
cb cold" And Mansard, the architect, tho i
A of the evening kept on his hat. The du
nd and marqui'es standing vita bare heads
1ei fore the king expressed their surprise
ali Mansard, but the king said, 81 can mak'
itb duke or a marquis, but God only can MAX
te Mansard ;" And say to you, my hearers, &
zen only by His convincing andconverting gr
We, can make Christian but He is ready t
in very half hour to accomplish it.
&c Again my text suggests way OF study
out heaven SO that Wo can petUer uhoeisIahu ',,N
/ Il The word eternlty thaD we "n,ule