Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-02-11

let Tie one uuuureu anu lotll-iout Auoar
sand get through each with his own story,
and then the one hundred and forty-four
million, and then the one bundred and
forty-four billion, and then the one hun
dred and forty-four trillion-
TRIUAIPHs OF ALL TIAlK TO BB coMMENo-
RATED.
Not only arc all the triumphs Of the past
to be commemorated, but all the triumphs
to come. Not only what we now know OF
God, but what we will know Of him after
everlasting study Of the Deific. II 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 theirposts; the female
nurses who faced pestilence in the lazaret-
tos; the railroad engineers who staid at
their places in order to save the train
though they themselves perished.
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 OF 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 refuge at the other
end of the right gallery" and then giving
the command to the other miners till they
digged themselves SO 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 hall
hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of children
They are in the vast majority. No child or
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 mucf
more of place than it was when that re
cess of thirty minutes occurred. It's popu
lation has quadrupled, sextupled, cen
tupled. Heaven has more on hand, more
of rapture, more Of knowledge, more of in
accommodation, more of worship.
There is not so much difference between
Brooklyn seventy-fve years ago, wher
there were few houses down on the Eas
river and the village reached up only tt
Sands street, as compared with what thi
great city is now-yea, not so much differ
ence between New York when Canal stree
was far up town and now when Cana
street is far down town, than there is diff
ference between what heaven was whel
my text was written and what heaven i
now. The most thrilling place we hav,
ever been in is stupid compared with that
and if we now have no time to spare w
will then have no eternity to spare. 81
lence in heaven only half an hour!
A HALF HOURS IMMORTALITY.
My subject also impresses me with tn
immortality of half hour. That hal
hour mentioned in my text is more widel.
known than any other period in the calen
dar of heaven. None of the whole hours o
heaven are measured off, none of the years
none of the centuries OF the millions Q
ages past and the millions of ages to com
not one is especially measured off In tn
| Bible. The half hour of my text is mad
| immortal The only part Of eternity tina
was ever measured by earthly timepiec
| was measured by the minute hand of m
| text.
| oh, the half hoursl They decide every
thing. am not asking what you will d
with the years or months or days of you
| life, but what of the half hours. Tell m
| the history of your half hours and wi
tell you the story of your whole life O
| earth and the story of your whole life i
eternity The right or wrong things yo
can think in thirty minutes, the right @
wrong things you can say in thirty mir
utes, the right or wrong things you can d
| in thirty minutes are glorious or balefu
inspiring or desperate. Look out for tn
fragments Of time. They are pieces {
| eternity.
1t was the half hours between shoein
horses that made Elihu Burritt the learne
blacksmith; the half hours between pr
/ fessional calls as a physician that mad
| Abercrombie the Christian philosopher
| the half hours between his duties as schoo
| master that made Salmon p. Chase chic
| Justice; the half hours between shoe last
that made Henry Wilson vice president {
the United States; the half hours betwee
canal boats that made James A. CARTEL
president
The half hour day for go0d books c
bad books, the half hour a day for prayc
or Incidence, the half hour day for hell
ing others or blasting others, the half hou
before you go to business and the half hou
after your return from business-tha
makes the difference between the schola
and the ignoramus, between the Christia
and the infidel, between the saint and th
demon, between triumph and catastrophe
between heaven and hell. The most tr
mendous things of your life and mine wei
certain half hours.
The half hour when in the parsonage {
country minister I resolved to become
Christian then and there; the half hou
when l decided to become preacher of tt
Gospel; the half hour when / first realize
that my son was dead; the half hour whe
stood on the top of my house in OxfoI
street and saw our church burn; the ha
hour in which I entered Jerusalem; tt
half hour in which assembled Mount Ca
vary; the half hour in which stood c
Mars hill; the half hour in which the ded
catory prayer of this temple was made, an
about ten or fifteen other half hours al
the chief times of my life. You may forg
the name of the exact years or most of I'll
important events Of your existence, b,
those half hours, like the half hour of N
text, will be immortal,
/ do not query what you will do with Il
Twentieth century, do not query VIII
you will do with 1892, but what will yo
do with the next half hour3 Upon th
hinges your destiny. And during tn
some of you will receive the Gospel al
make complete surrender, and during tn
Others Of you will make final and fatal I
lection Of the full and free and urgent al
impassioned offer of life eternal Oh, tn
the next half hour might be the most q