Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-02-01

10 e2s s1nrd cnly sle recess IA al eier2iay
AID thss fsr a seeT1 SPACE.
~Aile iLsr~ are yfs2< ehoruses n wkich
al seavza ca Iefn. each seal taere hss a
story q dlvt1s lzerc3 peculiar 20 itself azst
- must Dc sels. How can aeasea Eet
t4rcags with al - Fsest&Eiyes. with al
rs cAatos. vita al Is zr2ad marches, WITH
al Us victo<ssss EEernlty IL Too short 10
utter Al the PRAISE In my text hssxea
spared thirty minutes. bat il Will seFeE
again spare one minute. Ia worship IA
s.srthly ehsxehss. wasa there are saAay 20
take part. We have 20 eeansel 6rsyity. bUs
how viii heaven get ca rapidly sao1gh 20
let the one handred aGd fosty-fear the9-
sand get throaga each witA kis own stsry,
and then The one hnadrsd aad forty-foaf
nilho1, aat tAsa the enc hundred AID
forty -fsar bitica, 2ad then the one han
ered and fsrty fsar tfiilion
rzlEArHs o. ALL TAX TO Ez co1AE.so
RATED.
Net only ara all the trianpas Of the past
20 be COMMUNICATED. bat al! the triumpls
70 come. SOt Only what We now know %
God. bat what We will know OF him after
everlasting stney Of the D~iHe. IL nay text
had said there vas Stance in heaven ion
thirty days. would not have been startled
at the announcement. bat il Indicates
thirty nAinetes. Why, there will be sc
naAay friends TO hunt up, SO many Of tne
greatly good aad aseful that We will want
10 see; % maay Of the inscruta5ie things
Of earth we viii need explained: so many
exciting earthly experiences we viii want
to talk over. aad ali 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 10 as the heroes and hero;nes
that the world never fully appreciated
the yellow fever and cholera doctors who
died. not flying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestilenee in the laxaret-
toss the railroad engineers who staid at
their places III 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 Is he heard the waters rush
in. and when one jerk Of the rope would
have lifted him into safety. put blind
miner who wanted 10 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 refuge at the other
end OF the right gallery" and then giving
the command 70 the other miners till they
digged themselves 50 near out that the
people 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 their crown in heaven.
tell you heaven will have no more half
hours 20 spare.
Besides that, heaven Is full Of children
They arc IN the vast majority. No child on
earth that amounts TO anything can be kept
quiet half an hear, and how are you going
to keep Eve hundred million Of theIn quiet
half an hour. You know heaven is much
more Of a place than il was when that re-
cess Of thirty minutes occurred. Its popu-
lation has quaarupled, sextupled, cen
tupled. Heaven has more on hand, more
OF rapture. more OF knowledge, more of in
Recommendation. moro OF worship.
There is not 80 much difference between
Brooklyn sevsnty-6vs years ago. when
there were few hoascs down on the East
river and the village reached up only to
Sands street, IS compared with what this
great city is now-yea, net so much differ
erce between New York when Canal street
was far up town and now when Canal
street is far down town. than there is a dit-
ference between what heaven was when
my text was written and what heaven is
now The most thrilling place we have
ever been in is stupid compared with that,
and If we now have no time to spare we
will then have 10 eternity to spare. ST.
lence in heaven only half an hourl
A HALF HOURS IMMORTALITY.
Ny subject also inpresses me with the
Immortality of half hoar. That half
hour mentioned Ia my text is more widely
known than ery ether period in the calen-
dar Of heaven. None Of the whole hours of
heaven are measured OF, none of the years,
none of the centuries OF the millions Of
ages past and the millions Of ages to come
not one is especially measured of in the
Bible. The half honr Of my text is made
immortal. The only part Of eternity that
WAS ever measured by earthly tinepiece
was measured by the minute hand OF my
text.
Oh, the half hours! They decide every
thing. am not asking what you will DO
with the years or Tnoashs OF days Of your
life, but what Of the half hours. Tell nae
the history Of your half hours and will
tell you the 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 min
utes, the right or wrong things you can do
In thirty minutes are glorious or baleful,
inspiring or desperate. Look out for tn.
fragments Of time. They are pieces OF
eternity.
1t was the hah hours between shoeing
horses that made Eihn Burritt the learned
blacksmith; the half hours between pro-
fessional calls a. physician that madc
Abercrombie the Christian philosopher;
tn. half hours between his duties rs school
master that made Salmon p. Chase chief
justice, the half hours between shoe lasts
that made Henry Wilson vice president Of
the United States. the half hours between
canal boats that made James A. Garfield
prysident.
The half hour day for good books or
bad books, the half hour day for prayer
or Incidence, the half hour day for help
ing others or blasting others, the half hour
before you go 70 business azd the half hour
after your resarn from business-that
makes the difference between the scholar
and the ia-norzmus, between the Christian
and the iufideI, between the saint and thu
dsznsn, between triumph and catastrophe.
between heaven and bell. The most TIRE
mersasus things Of your life and mine were
certain half hours.
The half hour when IN the parsonage Of
q cezatry minister I resolved TO become a
Christian then ard there; the half hour
when decided to become preacher of the
Gospel. the half hosr when I first realized
that my con was dead; the half hour when
ssocd on the top Of mr. house in Oxford
street snd saw eur chsTch burn: sse half
hear IN which I entered jerusalem: the
half hour in watch assembled Mount Cal
vary: the hall hour in which | stooa ca
Mas hill. the half hour in which the deli-