Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-04

DR.. TALMAGE TELLS OF A THIRTY
MINUTES GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.

Space of Half an Hour"
BROOKLYN, Jan 31.-Dr. Talmace has Of
late been preaching on texts of Scripture
that seem to have been neglected, and here
is a sermon on a beautiful text which prob
ably was never before selected for dis
course. Revelation viii, |, There was
silence in heaven about the space of half
an hour"
The busiest place in the universe is
heaven 1t /. the center from which al
good influences start. 1t is the goal at
which all good results arrive. The Bible
represents it az active with wheels and
wings and olchestras and professions
moynted or charioped. But my text de-
scribcs space when the wheels ceased to
roll, and the trulnpe;s to sound and the
voices to chant The riders on the white
horses refined in their chargers. The dox
ologies were hushed and the professions
halted The hand Of arrest was put upon
all the splcudOrs. stop, heaven!' cried
an ornniputcut voice, and it stopped. For
thirty minutes everything celestial stood
still "Jhere was silence in heaven for
half an hour"
From all we can learn it is the only time
heaven ever stopped. 1t does not stop as
other cities for the night, for there is 10
l.
for the inhabtant never says, IL am sick"
1t does not stop for bankruptcies. tor its
inhabitants never fail. 1t does not stop
for imraSsab!a streets. for there are no
fallen SHOWS nor sweeping freshets. What,
then, s. cpped it for thirty minutes? Grotius
and Professor stuart think it was at the
time Of the destruction of Jerusalem. Mr.
Lord thinks il was in the year 3ll, between
the close of the Diocietian persecution and
the beginning of the wars by which Con
stantine gained the throne But that was
all a guess though a learned and brilliant
guess | DO not know when it was and
do not care when it was, but of the fact
that such an iuterregnum of sound took
place, am certain "There was silence in
heaven for half an hour"
HoNoEED SILENCE
And first Of all we may learn that God
and all heaven hon ,red silence The long
est and widest dominion thnt eyer existed
i. that over which stiffness WAS queen
For an etrr,jty there bud not been a sound
World mYkirc, was y later day OCCUPATION
For uniY,a1in;.hlr ace. it vas n mute uni.
verse God WAS the only brina and rs
there was no one to speak to there was no
rtterance Bur thai silence lus been all
broI,pn mn into worlds. and if HIS become
y poisv universe. Worlds in uDheaval
worlds in consolation, worlds in confaura-
ton. world. in revolution. If raologists
are rli,br-and believe they are-thera
has not been a moment of silence since this
world be,.an lis Travels. and the crashino,
and the splittiu..s. AM, the uproar. and the
hublub nr,. ever III progress
But wien nmun. the superna!s a voice
cried, "Rushr and for nalr an hoar heaven
was still. silence was honored The fun
mower of silence many of us have vet to
learn We are told that when Christ was
arrai,-ncd He answered not a y,ortl." That
silence was louder than any thunder that
shook the world. Oftentiincs. when we
are assaulted an 4 inisreprescntd. the mi,ht
lest thing 10 say is to say nothing. and
the nirhties thing to do is to do nothing.
Thoee people who are always rushing into
print to get themselves set right accom-
phsn nothing but their own chagrin. 81
leuce. 10 right ana ltavc the results with
God Among tie graadest lessons tAe
world hae ever learned are the lessons OF
patience taught by tho=e who endured I'm
ro,nr.Liinintslv ne, .0i11l or domestic or 40
finj 81, rnlitirol i,i,,.t-,.
StroryAr than my. hitter or sarcastic mr.
revepo,sf,ll answer vas he natien, silence
me fonous D~ Morrison If Chelsea no
co,o,,li.b.d nc ,,rr5 nv his silcnt na.ianna
ax nv his ,,,,,a and toprue He had asthma
tLo+ for t',,,,t,. Z; ,,a vrnrs broignt hin, o,,t
of his copch Ar tLyo o'rlocl, each murninp
His four sons and dauyhters dead M
ra,,,,;n;rr child nv su,,.trnre ,noda IN
san4 TIE Afflicted man said. "At this
,p,r,ar, tb.ra i nor an inc,, of my holy
thnt i NOT G],aI with auonv" Yet he
,,.. clo.rfr, trirn,huut cilont Tbose
who were in his rrp,cnce said they f,lt a,