News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-02-04

| with spectacle that it can afford only
one recess in all eternity, and tina
for short space. While there arr
great choruses in which all HEAVIER
can join, each soul there has a story
of divine mercy peculiar to itself
and it must be a solo. How cal
heaven get through with all its reel
tatives, with all it's cantos, with al
its grand marches, with all it's vic
tories9 Eternity is too short to uttel
all the praise.
In my text heaven spared thirt!
minutes, but it will never again spare
one minute In worship in earthly
churches, when there are many tx
take part, we have to counsel brew
ity, but how will heaven get on rap
idly enough to let one hundred an(
forty-four thousand get through
each with his own story, and the1
the one hundred and forty mil
lion, and then the one hundred anC
forty four billion, and then the ont
hundred and forty four trillion.
| ~ DE- SOnlhE1nOhAIE N-
Not only are all the triumphs O
the past to be commemorated, bu
all the triumphs to come. Not only
| what we now know of God, but wha
we will know of him after everlast
ing study of the Deific. If my tex
had said there was silence in HEAVIER
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; sc
many of the inscrutable things Of
earth we will need explained; sc
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 nc
more opportunity for cessation.
How busy we will be kept in hos :
pointed out to us the herCoo+ All
heroines that the world never In
appreciated the yellow fever a.
cholera doctors who died, not fly
from their posts; the female nurses
who faced pestilence in the lazarettos
the railroad engineers who staid at
their places in order to save the train
though they themselves persisted.
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 at the rope would have lifted
him into safety, put a 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 ref
dge at the other end of the right gal
lery," and then giving the command
to the other miners till 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 win want to see when they
get their crown in heaven. 1 tell
you heaven viii have no more half
hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of chill
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 1t was
when that recess of thirty minutes
occurred. Its population has quad
rupled, sextupled, centupled Heaven
mas more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of inter
more of worship.
There is not SO much difference be-
tween Brooklyn seventy-fve years
lgo, when there were a few houses
Town on the East river and the vii
age reached up only to Sands street.
rs compared with what this great city
8 pow-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 =. =.
IS difference between what -heaH
was when my text was VITA
what heaven is now. The most
ng place we have ever been in IS
stupid compared with that, and if we
aow have no time to spare we will
hen have no eternity to spare. ST.
ence in heaven only half an hour
HALF HOURS TO BE REMEMBERED.
My subject also impresses me with
he immortality of a 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
ire measured off, none of the years,
lone of the centuries. Of the mil
ions of ages past and the millions of
lges to come, not one is especially
measured off in the Bible. The half
lour of my text is made immortal.
The only part of eternity that was
aver measured by earthly timepiece
vas measured by the minute hand of
ny text.
Oh, the half hours They decide |
everything. | am not asking what |
you will do with the years or months
II days of your life, but what of the |
lalf hours2 Tell me the history of |
7our half hours and l will tell you
he story of your whole life on earth
md the story of your whole life in
'ternity. The right or wrong things
vou can think in thirty minutes, the
light or wrong things you can say in
hirty minutes, the right or wrong
Kings you can do in thirty minutes
re glorious or baleful, inspiring or
desperate. Look out for the frag-
nents of time. They are pieces of
ternity
1t was the half hours between shoe
ng horses that made Elihu Burritt
be learned blacksmith, the half
ours between professional calls as a
MUSICIAN that made Abercrombie the
christian philosopher, the half hours
etween his duties as a, schoolmasteF
nat made Salmon P. Chase chief JUS
tho half hours between shoe
ade Hesuy Wilson vice
he " it'd States, the
rnl the boats that
u esident.
pQalgn-a c1N
rayer or nftdentS -
ay for helping others ore, q Fer~
hers, the half hour before yocSt. :
, business, and the half hour after
Oh return from business; that
lakes the difference between the
,holar and the ignoramus, between
he Christian and the infidel, be-
veen the saint and the demon, be
a.: L.