The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-02-05

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self became sacrifice to the rage of
man.
The htilSer of the people in that
city during the besiegement was so
great that as some outlaws were
passing doorway and inhaled the
odors of food they burst open the
door, threatening the mother of the
household with death unless she gave
them some food, and she took them
aside and showed them that il was
her own child that she was cooking
for the CHASTITY repast, Six hundred
priests were destroyed on Mount Zion
because the temple being gone there
was nothing for them to do, Six
thousand people in one cloister were
consumed There were one million
one hundred thousand dead, accord
ing to Josephus Grotius thinks that
this was the cause of silence in heaven
for half an hour
If Mr. Lord was right and this ST.
lence was during the Diocletian per
secutions, 10y which eight hundred
and forty four thousand Christians
suffered death from sword and fire
and Punishment and exposure, why
did not heaven listen throughout at
least one of those awful yearsl MOI
Thirty minutes The fact is that the
celestial programme is so crowded
with spectacle 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 story
Of divine mercy peculiar to itself,
and it must be a solo. How can
heaven get through with all its reel
tatives, with all its cantos, with all
its grand marches, with all its vic
toriesi Eternity is too short to utter
all the praise.
In my text heaven spared thirty
minutes, but it will never again spare
one minute. In worship in earthly
churches, when there are many to
take part, we have to counsel brew.
ity, but how will heaven get on rap
idly enough to let ono hundred and
forty-four thousand get through
each with his own story, and then
the one hundred and forty four mil
lion, and then the one hundred and
forty four billion, and then the one
hundred and forty four trillion.
TRIUMPHs TO BE COMMUNICATED.
Not only are all the triumphs of
the past to be commemorate, but
all the triumphs to come. Not only
what we now know of God, but what
we will know Of him after everlast-
ing study of the Deific. If my text
had said there was silence in heaven
for thirty days | would not have
been startled at the announcement,
but it 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 explained; so
many exciting earthly experiences
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
heroines that the world never fully
appreciated the yellow fever and
cholera doctors who died, not flying
from their posts; the female nurses
who faced pestilence in the lazarettos;
the railroad engineers who staid 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 at 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
uge at the other end of the right gal
lery, and then giving the command .
to the other miners till they digged
themselves 50 near out that the peo- |
pie 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 .
yon heaven will have no more half
hot, - spare.
l. RS that, heaven is full of chill
dren They are in the vast majority
No child on earth that amounts to
anything can be kept quiet half an
hour, and how are you going to keep
five hundred million of them quiet
half an hour. You know heaven is
much more Of a place than 1t was
when that recess of thirty minutes
occurred It's population has quad
rupled, sextupled, centupled Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of inter
communication, more of worship
There is not so much difference be-
tween Brooklyn seventy-fve years
Ego. when there were a few houses
down on the East river and the vii
lage reached up only to Sands street,
as compared with what this great city
is now-yea, not so much difference
between New York when Canal street
was far up town and now when Canal
street is far down town, than there
is difference between what heaven
was when my text was written and
what heaven is now. The most thrill
ing place we have ever been in is
stupid compared with that, and if we
now have no time to spare we will
then have no eternity to spare. ST.
lence in heaven only half an hourl
HALF HOURS TO BE REMEMBERED
My subject also impresses me with
the immortality of half hour That
half hGUr mentioned in my text is
more widely known than any other
period in the calendar of heaven.