Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-02-10
IN HEAVEN.
He s1caness 10 There. Nor Age.
Nor Poverty.


mr.. TslmaCc's text on Sunday was
Revelations viii 1; There was silence
IN Heaven about th- space OF half an
hour"
The busiest place in tho universe 10
Heaven II II the center from which
all good influences start: IL 10 the goal
nj which all good results arrive The
Bible represents it ~ active with
wheels and wings and orchestras and
rrocessions. mounted or chsriotcd. But
nv text describes N space when the
wheels ceased TO roll and the trumpets
10 sound. and the voices Ia chant The
n .ers on the white horses refined in
their chargers The doxologies were
hushed and the professions halted The
hand of arrest WAS put upon all tho
splendors stop Heaven cried an
omnipo;cn, voice. and IL stopped For
thirty minutes everything celestial
stood still. There was silence in
Heaven for the space of half an hour"
From all we can learn IL IL tho only
time Heaven ever stopped II does not
stop rs other cities for the night. for
there il no night there IL does no,
stop for plague. for tho inhabitant
never says II am sick" IL does not
stop for bankruptcies. for its iuhabi,.
ants never fail II does no, stop for
I ipsssabie streets. for there are no fall
en- SHOWS nor sweeping frcshcts what
then. stopped II for thirty minutes?
Grotius aud Prof Stuart thiuk IL WAS ut
the time of the destruction Of JeruSa-
lem. hr. Lord thinks " was in the
year stl. between the close OF the Dio.
clctinn persecution and the beginning
OF the wars by which Constantine gain
ed the throne but that was I'LL n guess,
though learned and brilliant gucss.
] do moi know when IL was and I do
not care when IL was. but of the fact
that such an in,crrcgnum OF sound took
place. ! am certain. There was silence
In Heaven foe the space OF half an
hour"
And. frst of all. VIC may learn that
God and all Heaven then honorcd al
ieuce The longest and widest domin.
ION that ever existed Is that over which
Stiffness was Queen. For an eternity
there had not been sound. World
making was later day occupation.
For unimaginablc ages IL was n mute
universe God was the only Being.
and, rs there WINS no ono 10 speak 20.
there was no uttcrance. But that ST.
lencc has been all broken up into
worlds and II has become noisy uni
verse. Worlds in upheaval, worlds In
congclation, worlds in conhagration.
worlds In revolution. II gcologists are
right and believe they arc. there has
not not been moment OF silence since
this world began It's travels, and the
crashings and the splittings aud the up
roar and the hubbub arc ever In prog
ress. but when among the supernals
voice cried "Hushl" and for half an
hour Heaven was still. silence was hon
pred. The full power of silence many
OF us have yet to learn We are told
that when Christ was arraigncd 'He
answered not word" That silence
vas louder than any thunder that ever
shook the world. Outlines, when we
are assaulted and misrcpresented, the
mightiest thing to say is to say nothing.
and the mighticst thing to do Is to do
nothing. Those people who are always
rushing into print 10 get themselves set
right accomplish nothing but their own
chagrin. silence. DO right and leave
the results with God. Among the
grandest lessons the world has ever
learned nrc the lessons OF patience
taught by those who endured uncom-
plainingly personal or domestic or So
cial or political injustice. Stronger than
any bitter or sarcastic or revengeful
answer was the patient silence
The famous DR. Morrison, OF Chelsea,
accomplished as much by his silent
patience as by his pen and tongue lie
had asthma that for twenty years
hrough thin out of his couch at o. clock
each morning. His four sons and
daughters dead; the Remaining child by
sunstrok- made insane. The afflicted
man said at this moment there ia
not an inch OF my body that Is not filed
with agony Yet he was cheerful.
triumphant silent Those who were
IN his presence said they felt ms though
they were in the gates of Heaven oh.
che power OF patient silence! Eschylus.
he imperial poet was condemned TO
death for writing something that of-
Tended the people. All the pleas in his
behalf were OF no avail until his
brother uncovered the arm OF his
brother and showed where his hand
had been shot off az Salamis That
silent plea liberated him. The loudest
thing ON earth Is silence. IL Il be OF the
right kind and ~ the right time There
was a quaintNoid hymn spelled in the
Old style and once sung in the churches:
The race Is not forever cot
BY hirl who fastest runs
Nor the hat.ic by those people
That shoe, with tho longest guns
MY friends. The tossing Sea OF Galilee
seemed most to offend Christ by the
amount Of noise IL made. for he snid 90
u BE stiliw Heaven has been
ccrowning kings and queens unto God
To- many centuries. yet Heaven never
stoPred moment for any such occur.
renee but IL stopped thirty minutes for
the eor'sation of silence. There was
silence ~ Heaven for the space OF half
an hour"
Learn also from my text that Heaven
must be an evrntful and active place.
from The fact tlfrt 10 could afford only
thlrty minutes Of recess There have
Deen events on earth and ia Heaven
mat seemed 60 demand whole dav
OF whole week or Ngbole year ion
celestial consideration. IL Grotius
was right and this silence occurred a.
the time OF the destruction II .Jerusa
lem. that aeru1 ....n -. .s..f