Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-01

hours. Tell me the history OF your nail.
hours. and will tell you the story OF
vour whole life on earth and the story
of your woole life in eternity.
THE RIGHT OR WRONG THINGS
Won 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 deSper--
ate. Look out for the fragments OF
time. They are pieces OF eternity. IL
was the half-hours between shoelng
horses that made Elihu Burritt the
learned blacksmith, the half-hours be-
tween professional calls as a physician
thar made Abercrombie the Christian
philosopher, the half-hours between his
duties as schOOl-master that maze
Salmon Z. Chase Chief-Justlce, the
haIf-hours between shoe-lasts that
made Henry Wilson Nice-Presi-
dent OF the United States, the hat-
hours between cana!-ooats tnat
made James A. Garfield President. The
half hour a day for good books or pad
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 und the
half hour after you return from ousl-
ness; that makes the difference between
the scholar and the ignoramus, between
the Christian and the infidel, between
the saint and the demon, between tri-
Umph and catastrophe, between heaven
aud hell. The most tremendous things
of your life and mine were certain half
hours.
THE HALF-HOUR
when in the parsonage OF a country
minister / resolved TO become a Chris
tian then and there; the half-hour
when | decided to become preacher OF
the Gospel; the half-hOur when l hrst
realized that my son was dead; the half
hour when / stood 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 | assembled Mount Calvary; the
half-hour in which l stood on Mars
Hill; the half-hour in which the dedl-
catory prayer Of this Temple was made;
and about ten or fifteen other halt-
honrs are the chief times OF my lie.
You may forget the name OF the exact
years or most Of the important events
OF your exiS tence, but those haif-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.
hour? Upon that hinges your destiny
And during that some OF you will re-
ceive 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 I'M
FASHIONED offer Of life eternal. Oh, that
the next half-hour might be the most
glorious thirty minutes of our 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 he thought there was an undis-
covered continent. The undiscovered
continent was America.
THE GEOGBAPHER
who pointed where he thought there
was a new world was Martin Behaim,
and the sailor to whom he showed 1t
was Columbus. This last was not salts
fed till he he had picked that gem out
OF the sea and set il in the crown Of the
worlds geography. Oh, We, who have
been sailing up and down the rough
seas OF sorrow and sin, let me point out
to you another continent, yea. another
world, that you may yourselves find, a
rapturOuS 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 compaSSes. In oder words,
make this half-hour, beginning at
twenty minutes of twelve by my watch,
the grandest half-hour Of your life and
become a Christian. Pray for regenera-
ted spirit. Louis NV, while walking
in the garden at Versailles met Man
sard, the great architect, and the
architect took of his hat before the
king. "Put on your hat" said the king,
flor the evening is damp and cold"
And ManSard, 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 Manssrd, but the king said: ~ can
make a duke or marquis, but God only
can make a Mansard." And | say to
YOU, my hearers, God only by his con-
victing and converting grace can make
a Christian, but he is ready this very
half-hOur to accomplish it.
There was silence in heaven for half
an hour" You will find the inhabitants
all az home.
ENTER THE KINGS PALACE
and take only a glimpse, for we have
only thirty minutes for all heaven. 'Is !
that Jesus?" Eyes. Just Under the
hair along the forehead is the mark Of !
a wound made by bunch Of twisted !
brambleS, and his foot on the throne !
has on the round of his inStep another |
mark Of a wound made by spike, and
scar on the palm of his left hand.
But, what a cOuntenance, What
smile. What a grandeur! What
loneliness. What an overwhelming
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