Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-02-05

half hours, and 4 Will tell you+t
story of your whole life on earth and
the story of your whole life in eternity.
The right or wrong things you can
think in thirty 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 baleful, inspir-
ing or desperate. Look 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 hours-hours between professional
calls as a physician that made Aber-
crombie the CHRISTIAN philosopher, the
half-hours between his duties as
school-master that made Salmon p.
Chase chief justice, the half hours be-
tween shCe-lasts that made Henry
Wilson Vice president of the United
States, the half-hours between caAal
boats that made James A. Garfield
President. The halfh hour day
for good books or bad books; the
half- hour day for prayer or indolence;
Inc null-HOuT hdN lOI hGiD
ing others or blasting others; the half
hour before you go to business, and
the half-hour after your return from
business; that makes the difference
between the scholar and the ignor>
anus, between the christian and the in
fidel, between the saint and the de-
mon, between triumph and catastro-
phe, between heaven and hell. The
most tremendous thing of your life
and mine were certain half-hours.
The half-hour when in the parsonage
of country minister resolved TO be-
come a christian then and there; the
half-hour when / decided to become
preacher of the gospel; the half-hour
when first realized that my son was
dead; the half hour when i stood on the
top Of my house in Oxford street and
saw our church burn; the hal:-hour in
which | entered Jerusalem; the half
hour in which | assembled Mount CAL
vary; the half hour in which stood on
Mars Hill; the half hour in which the
dedicatory prayer of this temple was
made: and about ten or fifteen other
half-hours, are the chief times of my
life You may forget the name of the
exact years or most of the important
events of your existence, but
those half-hours like the half hour
, of my text, will be immor-
tai. do not query what you will do
with the Twentieth century, / do not
query what you will do with 1892, but
what will you do with the next half
hour? Upon that hinges your destiny.
And, during that some OF you will re-
oeive the gospel and make complete
surrender, and during that others OF
you will make final and fatal rejection
of the full and free and urgent and
imprisoned offer of life eternal. Oh,
that the next half-hour might be the
most glorious thirty minutes OF your
earthly existence. Far back in history
n great geog-apher stood with sailor
looking at a globe that represented
our planet, and he pointed to place on
the globe where he thought there was
an undiscovered continent. The un-
discovered continent was America.
/ The geographer who pointed where he
! IlOuRnL lDtTG Nlb hCN "OA lu W aa
+ Martin Behaim and the sailor to whom
! he showed it was Columbus. This last
was not satisfied till he had picked
! that gem out of the sea ana set it in
the crown of the worlds geography.
Oh, We, VIM have been sailing up ano
down the rough seas of sorrow and sin
let me point out to you another CONT
nent, yea, another world, that you
may yourselves find, rapturou:
world, and that is the world half
hour of which we now study. Oh, SCI
sail for it! Here is the ship and here
are the compasses- In other words
make this half hour, beginning a.
twenty minutes of twelve by my
watch, the grandest half hour OF your
Life and become Christian. Pray fol
regenerated spirit Louis XIV.
while walking in the garden at Yer
sailles met Mansard, the great archi
tect, and the architect took off his ha
before the king. Put on your hat,
said the king, for the evening is damn
and cold" And Mansard, the archi
tect, the rest of the evening
kept on MS nat lHe uuheo anu HuT
quises standing with bare heads before
the king, expressed their surprise a
Mansard. but the king said: 81 cal
make duke or a marquis, but Coo
only can make Mansard." And | SAY
to you, my hearers, God only by hi
convicting and converting grace cal
make a Christian, but he is ready thi
very half-hour to accomplish it
have a strangely beautiful book con
tanning the pictures of the medal
struck by the English Government il
honor OF great battles; these medal
pinned over the heart of the returned
heroes of the army, on great oc
casions, the Royal family present, AM
the Royal bands playing: the Crimeal
medal, the Legion of Honor, the Vic
toria Cross, the Waterloo medal II
your first half-hour in heaven in SOM
way you will be honored for tn
earthly struggles in which you VOL
the day. Stand up before all the Roya
House of heaven and receive the in
sigma while you are announced as
Victor over the droughts and freshet
of the farm field, Victor over tn