The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-12

thing. am not asking what you will
do with the years AMI months or days
of your life, but what of the half
hours. Tell me 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
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
49, yeen shoelng horses that made
Elihu Burritt the learned bla .lsmith,
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 shoe-lasts that made Henry
Wilson Vice-president of the United
States, the half-hours between canal
boats that made James A. Garfield
President. The half-hour a 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 to business, and
the half-hour after your return from
business; that makes the differences
between the scholar and the ignor-
anus, between the christian and the in
fidel, between the saint and the de-
mon, between triumph and cat&stro-
phe, between heaven and hell. The
most tremendous thing of your life
The halfhour 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 1 first realized thai my son was
dead; the half-hour when / sto d on the
top of my house in Oxford street and
saw our church burn; the half-hour in
which entered Jerusalem; the half
hour in which l assembled Mount Cal
vary; the half hour in which l 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
But how will you s, end the first
half-hour of your heavenly citizenship
after you have gone in to stay? After
your prostration before the throne in
worship of him who made it possible
for you to get there at all, l think the
rest of your first half-hour in heaven
will be passed in recsiving your re-
ward If you have been faithful.
have a strangely beautiful book con-
tanning the pictures of the medals
struck by the English Government in
honor of great battles; these medals
pinned over the heart of the returned
heroes of the army, ON great oc-
casions, the Royal family present, and
the Royal bands playing: the Crimean
medal, the Legion of Honor, the Vic
toria Cross, the Waterloo medal In
your first half-hour in heaven in some
way you will be honored for the
earthly struggles in which you won
the day. Stand up before all the Royal
House of heaven and receive the in
sigma while you are announced as
Victor over the droughts and freshets
of the farm field, Victor over the
temptations of the stock exchange,
Victor over professional allurements,
Victor over domestic infelicitles, Victor
over mechanics shop, Victor over
the store house, Victor over
home worriments, Victor over phys
zeal distresses, Victor over hereditary
depressions, Victor over sin and death
and hell. Take the badge that cele-
brates those victories through our
Lord Jesus Christ Take it in the pres
ence of all the galleries, sanity, angelic
and Divinel While all heaven chants:
These are they who came out.of great
tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
Lamb"
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they die
They see the triumph from afar
And seize 1t with their eye.
Met Death Ln u Horrible Form.