The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-11

compared with that, and, II 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 calendar of Heaven. None of the
whole hours of Heaven are measured
off, none Of the years, none of the CEN
turtles. 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 i'm
mortal The only part of eternity that
was ever measured by earthly time
piece was measured by the minute hand
of my text Oh, 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 / will tell you the story of your
whole life on earth and the story of
your whole life in eternity. The right
or wrong things you can think In thir-
| ty 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, inspir-
ing or desperate. Look out for
the fragments of time. They
are pieces of eternity. 1t was the half
hour between shoeing horses that
made Elihu Burritt the learned black
smith, the half hour between profess
sional calls as n physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philoso.
pher, the half hours between his duties
rs schoolmaster that made Salmon p.
Chase chief-justice, the half hours be-
tween shoe-lasts that made Henry Will
son vice-president of the United States,
the half hours between canal boats
that made James A. Garfield president
The half hour a day for good books or
bad books; the half hour n day for
prayer or Incidence; the half hour n
day for helping others or blasting
others; the half hour before you go to
business, and the half hour after your
return from business; 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 catastro-
phe, between Heaven and hell. The
most tremendous things in your life
and mine were certain half hours. The
half hour when in the parsonage Of a
country minister / resolved to become
Christian then aid there; the half
hour when decided to become preach
err Of the Gospel; the half hour when /
realized that my son was dead; the
half hour when stood on the top of my
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 ] stood on Mars
Hill; the half hour in which the dedi-
catory prayer of this temple was made;
and about ten or fifteen other half
hours, are the chief times of my life.
You may forget the names of the exact
years or most of the important events
of your existence, but those half hours
like the half hours of my text will be
immortal. I 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 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.
hat ha - Io1 l.,
the most glorious thirty minutes of
your earthly existence. Far back in
history a great geographer stood with
a sailor, looking ut a globe that repre-
sented our planet and he pointed
to place on the globe where
he thought there was an undis-
covered continent The undiscov-
cred continent was America. The
geographer who pointed to where he
thought there was n new world was
Martin Behaim, and the sailor to whom
he showed it was Columbus This last
was not satisfied till he had picked
that gem out of the sea and set 1t in the
crown of the worlds geography. Oh!
We, who have been sailing up and down |
the rough sea of sorrow and sin, let me
point out to you another continent, yea,
another world, that you may your
selves find, half-hour of which we |
now study. Oh, set sail for i'll Here is |
the ship and here are the compasses.
In other words make this half-hour,
beginning at 11:40 by my watch, |
the grandcst half-hour of your life and |
become a Christian. Pray for regen-
Grated spirit Louis XIV while walk.
ing in the garden at Versailles met