Connecticut western news., 1892-02-04

cured at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. that scene was so awful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of heaven could not have done jus tiCe to It ln many weeks. After fear ful beSiegement of the two fortreSses of Jerusalem Antonio and Hippicus
 had been going on for q long while. a Roman soldier mounted on the shoulders of another soldier hurled into the window of the temple fire brand and the temple was all atiame. and after covering many sacrifices to the holiness of tio,l. the building it self became sicr1tice to the rage of man
 The hunger of the people in that city during the beslegement was so great that as some outlaws were passing doorway and inhaled the uii,,ssrs of food they burst open the door. thrSatening the mother of the household w1sh death unless she gave them some fou1. and she took them aside and showed tSem that 1t was her own child that she WAS saOklng for the ghastly reptst. Six hundred pIressts 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.Iosephus tirotius thinks that this WAS the cause of silence ln heaven for half an hour.
 If MT. Lord was right and this si lence was during the Diocletian per -Sutions. by which eight hundred and forty four thousand Christians suffered death from sword and fire and banIshment and exposure, why
 lId not heaven listen throughout at least one of those awful years2 No! Thirty mluutesi The fact is that the celestial programme is so crowded with spectacle that 1t can afford only one recess in all eternity. and that for short space. While there are great choi1,ses in which all heaven can joln. each soul there has story of divine mercy peculiar to itself. and II 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 toriest 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 brev ity. but how will heaven get on rap idly enough to let one 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 COMMEMORATIVE.
 Not only are all the tI-iumphs 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 everlast ing study of the Deitic. If my text had said there was silence in heaven for thirty days l would not have been startled at the announcement but It indicates thirty minutes. Why. there will be so many friends to hunt up: -o 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 dm'tors who dIed. not flying from thelr posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the railruad engineers who stald 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 mlne just as he heard the waters rush ln and when one jerk at the rope would have lifted him into safety. put blind miner who wanted to go to his slck 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 til they digged themselves so 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 zee when they get their crown in heaven. tell you heaven will have no more half N ,urs to spare.
 Besides that. heaven is full of chil dren. They are In the vast majority. No child on earth that amounts to 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 place than It was when that recess of thirty minutes occurred Its 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 five years ago. when there were 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