Connecticut western news., 1892-02-04

y none of the centuries Of the mil lions of ages past and the millions of ages to come. not one is especially measured of in the Bible, The half hour of my text is made immortal The only part of eternity that was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text
 Oh. the half hoursl They decide everything am not asking what you will do with the years or months or days of your life. but what of the half hoursi 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, inspiring or desperate. Look out for the frag. ments of time. They are pieces of eternity
 It was the half hours between shoe ing horses that made Elihu BurTitt the learned blacksmith. the half hours between professional calls as physician that made Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, the half hours between his duties as schoolmaster that made Salmon P. Chase chief jus tiee. the half hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Wilson vree president of the United States, the half hours between canal boats that made James A Garfield president.
 The half hour day for good books or bad books, the half hour day for prayer or indolence. the half hour a day for helping others or blasting others the half hour before you go to business. and the half hour after you return from business; that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignoramus, between the Christian and the infidel, be tween the saint and the demon, be tween triumph and catastrophe. be tween heaven and hell. The most tremendous things of your life and mine were certain half hours.
 The half hour when in the parson. age of country minister l resolved to become Christian then and there; the half hour when decided to be come a preacher of the Gospel; the half hour when l realized that my son was dead; the half hour when stood on the top of my house in OK. ford street and saw our church burn; the half hour in which l entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which ascended Mount Calvary; 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 immortal. 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 hourl Upon that hinges your des tiny And during that some of you will receive 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 impassioned 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 great geographer stood with sailor looking at a globe that represented our planet, and he pointed to place on the globe where be thought there was an undiscov cred continent The undiscovered continent was America. The geog rapher who pointed where be thought there was a new world was 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 and set it in the crown of the worlds geography.
 Oh. ye. who have been sailing up md 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 rap turous world. and that is the world a half hour of which we now study Oh. set sail for it Here Is the ship and here are the eompasses. In other words. make this half hour. begin. nIng at twenty minutes of twelve by my watch. the grandest half hour of your life and become a Christian Pray for a regenerated spirfs
 Louis XIV. while walking i'll the garden at Versailles, met Mansar1l, the great architect, and the architect took of his hat before the king. Put on your hat, said the king. for the evening is damp and cold" And NLanSari, the architect. the rest of the evening kept on his hat. The dukes and marquises standing with bare heads before the king expressed their surprise at Mansari, but the king said. Il can make a duke or a marquis, but God only can make a Mansard." And l say to you. my hearers. God only by his convicting and converting grace can make a Christian. but be is ready this very half hour to accomplish it,
 STUDY OF HEAVEN.
 Again. my text suggests way of studying heaven so that we can bet ter understand it. The word "eteIni ty" that we handle SD much is an immeasurable 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 eyegf l am glad that