The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-11

that seemed to demand n whole day
or whole week or whole year for
celestial consideration. IL Grotius
was right and this silence occurred at
the time of the destruction of Jerusa.
lem, that scene was so awful
and so prolonged that that
inhabitants of Heaven could not
have done justice to it in many weeks.
After fearful besiegement of the two
fortresses of Jerusalem-A and
Hippicus had been going on for long
while, Roman soldier mounted on the
shoulder of another soldier hurled into
the window of the temple fire. brand,
and the temple was all aflame, and af-
ter covering many sacrifices to the
holiness of God, the building itself be-
came sacrifice to the rage of man.
The hunger of the people in that city
during that besicgement was so great
that as some outlaws were passing a
doorway and inhaled the odors of food,
they burst open the door, threatening
the mother of the household with death
and she took them aside and
showed them that 1t was her own child
she was cooking for the CHASTITY repast-
Six hundred priests were destroyed on
Mt Zion because the temple being
gone there was nothing for them to do
Six thousand people in one cloister
were consumed. There were l, 100, 900
dead, according to Josephus. Grotius
thinks that this was the cause of
Gil 10, f,,. hnl
Mr.. Lord was right and this silence
was during the Diocletian prosecutions,
by which S44, 900 Christians suffered
death from sword and fire and Danish
ment 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 so crowded with spec
tacles that it can afford only one recess
in all eternity, and that for short
space. While there are great
choruses in which all Heaven can join,
each soul there has a story of Divine
mercy peculiar to itself. and it must be
solo. How can Heaven get through
with all its recitatiyes, with all its cam
tatas, with all it's grand marches with
all its victories? Eternity is too short
to utter all it's praise. In my text
Heaven spared thirty minutes, but it
will never again spare one minute. In
worship in earthly churches, where
there are many to take part, we have
to counsel brevity; but how will Heaven
get on rapidly enough to let the l44, 900
get through each with his own story,
and then the l44, 600, 900. and then the
l44, 900, 900, 900, and then the LA, 00O.-
600, 600, 00O
Not only are all the triumphs Of the
past TO be concentrated, but all the
triumphs to come. Not only what we
know Of God, but what we will know
of Him after everlasting study of the
Deifc If my text had said there was
silence in Heaven for thirty days, /
would not have been startled at the an
nouncement, but 1t 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; so many of the inscrutable
things of earth we will need explain
ed; so many exciting earthly eXpe-
ricnces 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 hero
ines that the world never fully appre-
yellow fever and cholera
doctors who died not flying from their
posts; the female nurses who faced pes
thence in the lazarettos; the railroad
engineers who stayed at their places in
order to save the train, though they
themselves persisted. Hubert Coffin,
the master miner, who. landing from
the bucket at the bottom Of the mine,
just as 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 and jerked 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
hge at the other end of the right gall
cry" and then giving the command to
the other miners till they dragged
so near out that the peo-
Pile from the outside could come to
their rescue The multitudes of men
and women who got no crown on earth,
we will want to see when they get
heir crown in Heaven. ] tell you,
Heaven will have no more half hours
10 spare.
Besides that Heaven is full Of chill
iren. They are in the vast majority.
No child on earth who amounts to any
hing can be kept quiet half an hour,
and how are you going to keep 500, O0O,-
300 of them quiet half an hour? You