Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-02-06

of Jerusalem Antonio and llippicus
had been going on for Il long while,
a Roman soldier mounted on the
shoulders of another soldier hurled
into the window of the temple Il fire
brand and the temple was all ailame.
and after covering many sacrifices To
the holiness of God the building it
self became sacrifice to the rage of
man.
The hunger of the people in that
city during the beSiegcmcnt was 50
great that as some outlaws We're
passing doorway and inhaled the
odors of food they burst open the
door, threatening the mother ot the
household with death unless She gave
them some food and she took them
aside and showed them that it was
her own child that she was cooking
for the ghastly rclast. six hundred
priests We're destroyed on Mount Zion
because the temple being gone there
was nothing for them to do. Six
thousand people in one cloister We're
consumed There were one million
one hundred thousand dead. accord
ing to Josephus. Grotius thinks that
this was the cause of silence i'll heaven
for half an hour.
If Mr.. Lord was right and this 81
lence was during the Diocletian per
secutions, by which eight hundred
and forty four thousand Christians
suffered death from sword and fire
and banishment and exposure why
did not heaven listen throughout at
least one of those awful years: No
Thirty minutes, The fact is that the
celestial programme is 50 crowded
with spectacle that it can afford only
one recess in all eternity. and that
for a short space. While there are
great choruses i'll which all heaven
can join. each soul there has a story
of divine mercy peculiar Ia itself.
and it must he solo. How can
heaven get through with all its reci-
tatives, with all its c;Intos. with all
its grand marches. with al its vic
toriesi Eternity is too short to utter
all the praise
In my text heaven spared thirty
minutes. but it will never again spare
one minute In worship III earthly
churches, when there are many 10
take part, we have to counsel brev
ity, but how will heaven get on rap
idly enough to let one hundred and
fortyfour thousand get through
each with his own story. and then
the one hundred and fortyfour mil
lion, and then the one hundred and
forty-four billion. and then the one
hundred and forty four trillion.
TRIUMPHs TO BE CONCENTRATED.
Not only are all the triumphs of
the past to be commemorated, but
all the triumphs to come. Not only
what we now know of God. but what
we will know of him after everlast-
ing study of the Deiiic II my text
had said there was silence in heaven
for thirty days would not have
been startled at the announcement
but it indicates thirty minutes Why
there will be so many friends to hunt
up; SO many of the greatly good and
useful that we will want To see. 80
many of the inscrutablc things of
earth we will need explained: so
many exciting earthly experiences
we will want To talk over and all the
other spirits and all tn" ages will
want the same. that there will be no
more opportunity for cessation.
How busy we will bc kept i'll 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 i'll the lazar~ttoS
the railroad engineers who stald at
their places in order to save the train
though they themselves perished
Hubert Coffin. the master miner.
who, landing from the bucket nj the
bottom of the mine just a. he heard
the waters rush i'll and when one
jerk ut the rope would have lifted
him into safety. put blind miner who
hdkltttl ~ E,o W lllN SA N AiAANi III AiAt
bucket and jerkcd the rope for him
to be pulled up, crying. Tell them
the water has burst in and we are
probably lost; but we will seek ref
uge at the other end of the right gal
lery," and then giving thecomnand
to the other miners till they digged
themselves so near out that the Ileo-
pie from the outside could come to
their rescue The multitudcs of men
and women who got no crown on
earth we 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 chill
dren They are in the vast majority
No child 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 a place than 1t was
when thar recess or tnlrty minutes
occurred. Its population has quad
rupled, seXtuplcd. centupied. Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture.
more of knowledge more of inter
communication. more of worship
There is not so much difference he
tween Brooklyn seventy five years
ago, when there Were a few houses
down on the East river and the vii
lage reached up only to Sands street.
rs compared with what this great city
is now yea, not 50 much difference
between New York when Canal street
was far up town and now when Canal
street is far down town, than there
is difference between what heaven
was when my text was written and
what heaven is now. The most thrill
ing place We have ever been in is
stupid compared with that and if we