The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-01

of divine mercy peculiar 10 Itself. and it
must be a solo. How can heaven
get through with all its recitatives, with
all its cantatas, with all its grand marches,
with all Its vict0riesi Eternity Is too
short to utter ell the praise In nv text
heaven spared thirty minutes, but it Will
never again spare one minute. In wor-
ship in earthly churches. when there are
many 70 take part, we have to counsel
brevity, but how will heaven get on
rapidly enough to let the one hundred
and forty-fOlr thousand get through each
with his own story, aud then the one hun
dred and forty four million, and then the
one hundred and forty-four billion, and
then the one hundred and forty-four trll-
lioni
Not only are all the trinmphs of the past
TO be commemorated, but all the triumphs
70 come. Not only what we now know OF
God, but what we will know Of him after
everlasting study Of the deiic IL 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; 50 many exciting
earthly experiences we will want TO talk
over and all tho 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
70 US the heroes and beroines that the world
never fully sppreciated-the yellow fever
and cholera doctors, who died not flying
from their posts; the female nurses who
faced pestilence In the lazarettos; the rail-
road engineers who stayed at their places
in order TO save the train though they them
selves pc ished Hubert Coffin, the master
wrafva rkn law frsFsrr hFfalr at 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 a blind miner who
wanted to 60 to his sic X 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 toe 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. l tell you heaven
will have no more half hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of children.
They are in the vast majority. No child on
earth who amounts to anything can be kept
quiet half an hour, and how are you going
10 keep five hundred million OF them quiet
half an hours You know heaven is much
more of place than it was when that recess
of thirty minutes occurred. Its population
has quadrupled, sextupled centupled.
Heaven has more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of intercommuni-
cation, more OF worship. There is not so
much difference between Brooklyn seventy
five years ago when there we're few houses
down on the East river and the village
reached up only TO Sands street, as COM
pared with what this great city is now
yea, not so much difference between New
York when Canal street was far uptown
and now when Canal street is as far down.
town, than there is a difference between
what heaven was when my text was writ
ten and what heaven is now. The most
thrilling 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. Silence in heaven only
half an hour
My subject also impresses me with the
immortality of half hour That half hour
mentioned in my text is more widely
known than any other period in the calen-
dar Of heaven. None OF the whole hours of
heaven are measured Off, none OF the years,
none OF the centuries. OF the millions of
ages past, and the millions of ages to come.
not one is especially measured off in the
Bible. The half hour of my text is made
immortal. The only part of eternity that
was ever measured by earthly time piece was
measured by the minute hand of my text O,
the half hours 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 hours. Tell me the history
of your half hours and l will tell. you the
story of your whole life on earth andIsthe
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 in
spring or desperate. Look out for
the fragments of time. They are pieces of
eternity. 1t was the half hours between
shoeing horses that made Elihu Burritt the
learned blacksmith, the half hours between
professional calls as physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, the
half hours between his duties as school
master that made Salmon ?. Chase chief
justice, the half hours between shoe lasts
that made Henry Wilson Vice President of
the United States, the half hours between
canalboats THAT made James A. Garfield
President. The half hour a day for good
books or bad books; the half hour a day for
prayer or Incidence; the half hour day fer
helping others or blasting others; the half
hour before you go to business, and the
half hour after your return from BUSH
ness; that makes the difference between the
scholar and the ignoramus, between the
Christian and the infidel, between the
saint and the demon, between triumph and
catastrophe, between heaven and hell The
most tire nendous things of your life and
mine were certain half hours The half
hour when in the parsonage of country
minister l resolved to become Christian
then and there; the half hour when l
decided to become preacher Of the Gospel;
the half hour when first realized that my
son was dead; the half hour when l stood
On the top of 10Y house in Oxford street
and saw our church burn, the half~hour
in which ! entered Jerusalem: the half
hour in which l assembled Mount
Calvary; the half hour in which l stood
on Mars Hill; the half hour in which the
dedlcatorY rayer OF this temple was made:
and about ten or fifteen other half hours
are the chief times of my life. You NAV
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 DE 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 time 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 imprisoned offer of life
eternal. ., that the next half hour might
be the most glorious thirty minutes of
your earthly existence. Far back in
history great geographer stood with a
sailor, loo4lng at globe that represented
our planet, and he pointed to a Diaca on the