Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-06

whole day or a whole week or whole
year for celestial consideration. If
Grotius was right and this silence oc-
CURED at the time of the destruction
of jerusalem, that scene was so awful
and so prolonged that the inhabitants
ofSheaven could not have done JUS
tics.to it in many weeks. After fear
full besiegement of the two fortresscs
of Observation-Disclosures and Hippicus
had been going on for long while.
a Roman soldier modnted on tho
shoulders of another soldier hurled
into the window of the temple Il fire
brand and the temple was all afiane,
andsafter covering many sacrifices to
thea holiness of God, the building it
self became sacrifice to the rage of
man.
The hunger of the people in that
1 city during. the besiegement was 80
lereat that as some outlaws were
passing doorway and inhaled the
odors of food they burst open the
door, threatening the mother of the
household with death unless she gave
them some food, and she took them
aside and showed them that it was
her own child that she was cooking
for the CHASTITY repast. Six hundred
priests wero destroyed on Mount Zion
because the temple being gone there
was nothing for them to do. Six
thousand people in one cloister were
consumed There were one million
one hundred thousand dead, accord
ing to Joscphus. Grotius thinks that
this was the cause of silence i'll heaven
for half an hour.
If Mr.. Lord was right and this 81
lence was during the Diocletian per-
secutions, by which eight hundred
and forty four thousand Christians
suffered death from sword and fire
and Punishment and exposure, why
did not heaven listen throughout at
least one of those awful years. No!
Thirty minutes The fact is that the
celestial programme is so crowded
with spectacle that it can afford only
one recess in all eternity. and that
for short space While there are
great choruses in which all heaven
can join. each soul there has story
of divine mercy peculiar to itself.
and it must he a SOLO How can
heaven get through with all its reel
tatives, with all it's cantos, with all
its grand marches, with all its vic
tories2 Eternity is too short to utter
all the praise.
In my text heaven spared thirty
minutes, but it will never again spare
one. minute. In worship in earthly
churches, when there are many to
take part, we have to counsel brew
ity, but how will heaven get on rap
idly enough to let one hundred and
forty-four thousand get through
each with his own story. and then
the one hundred and forty-four mil
lion, and then the one hundred and
forty-four billion. and then the one
l.sz,adrnd-as,ll:ss + A,.ty-- four trillion.
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+ TRIUMPHs TO BE ColIsIEMoRATED.
Not only are all the triumphs of
the past to be commemorated, but
all the triumphs to come. Not only
what we now know of God, but what
we will know of him after everlast-
ing study of the Deilic. If 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; so
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 no
more opportunity 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 yellow fever and
cholera doctors who died, not flying
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, puta blind ninerwho
wanted to go to lis sick child III 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.
uge 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 will want to see when they
get their crown in heaven. tell
you heaven will 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
anything 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 a place than 1t was
when that recess of thirty minutes
occurred. Its population has quad
rupled. sextupled, centuplcd. Heaven
has more on hand. more of rapture,