The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-02-04

an hour. If Mr. Lord was right AM
this silence was during the Diocletlal
prosecutions, by which 844, 600 Christ
lans suffered death from sword and fire
and Punishment and exposure, why did
not Heaven listen throughout at leas
one of those awful years? No! Thirty
minutes! The fact is that the celestial
programme is so crowded with specta
Gle that it can afford only one recess.
In all eternity and that for a short
space.
In worship in earthly churches, wher
there are many to take part, we have
to counsel brevity, but how will HEAVIER
get on rapidly enough to let the one
hundred and forty-four thousand gel
get through each other with his own
story, and then the one hundred and
forty-four million and then the one
hundred and forty-four billion. and
then the one hundred and forty
four trillion. Not only are all the
triumphs of the past to be commem-
Grated, but all the triumphs to come.
Not only what we now know of God, but
what we will know of him after ever
lasting study of the Deific If my
text had said there was silence
in Heaven for thirty days, would not
have been startled at the announce
ment, 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; so many
exciting earthly experiences we will
want 10 talk, and all the other spirits
and all the ages will want the same,
that there will be no more opportunities
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 muititudes of men and women
who got no crown on earth, we will
want to see when they get their crowns
IN Heaven. | tell you Heaven will
have no more half hours to spare. Be-
sides that Heaven is full of children
They are in the vast majority. No
child on earth who amounts to any
thing can be kept quiet half an hour,
and how are you going to keep $780,
O0O,0 coo of them quiet half an hour.
You know Heaven is much more
of place than it was when
that recess of thirty minutes oc-
Cured. It's population is quad
rupled, sextupled, centupled. Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of intercom-
nunication, more of worship.
My subject also impresses me with
the 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 are
off. Of the millions of ages
past and the millions of ages to come,
1ot one is especially measured off in
he Bible. The half hour of my text is
made immortal. The only part of
eternity that was ever measured by
earthly timepiece 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,
put what of the half hours.
Tell me the history of your half
hours, and will tell you the story of
7our whole life on earth and the story
If your whole life in eternity. The
light or wrong things you can think in
thirty minutes, the right or wrong
Kings you can say in thirty minutes.
he right or wrong things you can do
n thirty minutes are glorious or bale
III, inspiring or desperate. Look out
or the fragments of time. They are
'icces of eternity. 1t was the half
lours between shoeing horses that
made Elihu Rurritt the learned black |
NTH, the half hours between profes- |
ional calls as a physician that made |
Abercrombie the Christian philoso-
her, the half hours between his
uties as schoolmaster that made |
almon p. Chase chief JUS
ice, the half hours be-
ween shoe lasts that made Henry Will |
on vice-president of the United States.
he half hours between canal boats that
lade James A. Garfield president The
alf hour day for good books or bad
ooks, the half hour day for PRAYER
r incidence, the half hour day for
elping others or blasting others, the
alf hour before you go to business and
he half hour after your return from
usiness that makes the difference be-
ween the scholar and the ignoramus.
etweea the Christian and the infidel.
etween the saint and the demon. be-
ween triumph and catastrophe, be-
,veen Heaven and hell.
! do not query what you will do with
ne twentiety century, / do not query
hat you will do with 1892, but what
ill you do with the next half hour?
pom that hinges your destiny. And
uring that some of you will receive
he gospel and make complete sur
ender, and during that others of Won
i'll make final and fatal rejection of
lie full and free and urgent and i'm
ASSIGNED offer of life eternal. O. that
lie next hal; hour might be the most
Iorious thirty minutes of your earthly
xistence- Far back in history great
stood with n sailor, looking
a globe that represented our planet.
nd he pointed to place on the globe
here he thought there was an uudis-
,vered continent. The undiscovered
ointment was America The peor-
Lpher who pointed where he thought
lere was a new world was Martin Be-
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