News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-02-04

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complete surrender, and dIiiW
others of you will make final a.
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 a great geographer stood
with a sailor looking at a globe
that represented our planet, and he
pointed to a place on the globe where
he thought there was an undiscov-
cred continent The undiscovered
continent was America. The geog-
rapher who pointed where he
thought there was new world was
Martin Behaim, and the sailor to
whom he showed it was Columbus.
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picked that gem out of the sea and
set it in the crown of the worlds
geography.
Oh, We, who have been sailing up
&nd down the rough seas of sorrow
and sin, let me point out to you an
other continent, yea, another world,
that you may yourselves find a rap
turous world, and that is the world
half hour of which we now study.
Oh. set sail for it! Here is the ship
and here are the compasses. In other
words, make this half hour, begin
ming at twenty minutes of twelve by
my watch, the grandest half hour of
your life and become a Christian.
Pray for regenerated spirit.
Louis XIV, while walking in the
garden at Versailles, met Mansard,
the great architect, and the architect
took off his hat before the king.
Put on your hat" said the king,
for the evening is damp and cold. "
And Mansard, the architect, the resi-
laf the evening kept on his hat. iahe
oee1 as and n'tf1uises standinGhat-
5er by e.advSrors s.the kingtce, who
their us that the Mansaans school
king sadie in can make of this in
marquis, but God only deVerai col
Mansard. And l say tertihcates
hearers, God only by his ccnspu H.
and converting grace can 31ql 1e a
Christian, but he is ready this very
half hour to accomplish it,
STUDY OF HEAVEN.
Again, my text suggests a way of
studying heaven so that we can bet
ter understand it. The word "eterni-
ty" that we handle so much is an
unreasonable word Knowing that
we could not understand that word,
the Bible uses it only once. We say,
Forever and ever" But how long
is Forever and ever" am glad that
my text puts under our eye heaven
for thirty minutes. As when you
would see a great picture, you put
sheet of paper into scroll and look
through it, or join your forefinger to
your thumb and look through the
circle between, and the picture be-
comes more intense, so this master
piece of heaven by st. John is more
impressive when we take only thirty
minutes of it at a time
Now we have something that we
can come nearer to grasping and it is
a quiet heaven. When we discuss
about the multitudes of heaven, it |
must be almost a nervous shock to |
those who have all their lives been
crowded by many people and who
want a quiet heaven. For the last
thirty-five years have been much of |
the time in crowds and under public |
scrutiny and amid excitements, and
[ have sometimes thought for a few
weeks after reach heaven l would
like to go down in some quiet part of
the realm, with a few friends, and
for little while try comparative
solitude. te
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