The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-03

Snouluer OF announcer solu1er, nurleu lnto
the window Of the temple q frebrand,
and the temple was all aAarne, and
after covering many sacrifices to the
holiness of God, the building itself be
came sacrifice TO the rage Of man.
The hunger Of the people in that city
during the besiegement was so great
that as some outlaws were passing q |
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 1t was her own child that she was
cooking for the ghastly repast Siz
hundred priests were 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, according to
Josephus. Grotius thinks that this waa
the cause OF silence in Heaven for hall
an hour. If Mr.. Lord was right and
hts silence was during the Diocletian
prosecutions, by which eight hundred
and forty-four thousand Christians suf'
fered death from sword and fire, and
Punishment and exposure why did moi
Heaven listen throughout at least one
Of those awful years? mol Thirty
minutesi The fact Is that the celestial
programme Is SO crowded with specta
Gle that it can only afford one recess in
all eternity, and that for short space.
While there are great choruses in which
all Heaven can join, each soul there ha,
story of divine mercy peculiar to itself
and 1t must be SOLO How can Heaven
get through with all its recitatives,
with all its cantatas, with all its grand
marches, with nll its victories? Eter'
nifty is too short to utter all the praise.
In my text Heaven spared thirty min
utes, but it will never again spare one
minute. In worship in earthly churches,
when there are many to take part, we
have to counsel brevity, but how will
Heaven get rapidly enough to let the
one hundred and forty-four thousand
get through each with his own story,
and then the one hundred and forty.
four million, and then the one hundred
and fOrty-fovr billion, and then the one
hundred and forty-four trillion?
Not only-are all the triumphs of the
past TO be'commemorated but all the
triumphs TO come. Not only what we
know of God, butwhat we will know
of Elm after everlasting study of the
Deific. Iftmy text had said there was q
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 willwant 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 hero and heroines that the
werld never fully appreciated-thC
yellow fever and cholera doc
tors, who died not flying from
their posts; the female nurses who
faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the
railroad engineers who stayed at their
places IN order to save the train though
they themselves perished Hubert Gof
fin. the master miner who, landing
from the bucket at the bottom of the
mine, just as he heard the waters rush
in, andwhen one Jerk of the rope would
have lifted him into safety, put a blind
! miner who wanted TO 90 to his sick
child inthe bucket and jerked the rope
for himtto be pulled up, crying; "Tell
them the water has burst in and we are
probably lost; but we will seek refuge
at the other end OF the right gallery
and then giving the command TO the
other miners till they digged themselves
so nearout that the people from the
outside could come TO their rescue. The
multitudes of men and won en- who got
no crown Oh earth, we will want to see
when they get their crown in Heaven.
] tell you Heaven will have no more
half hours 10 spare.
Besides that, Heaven is fun of chill
dren. They are in the vast majority.
No child on earth who amounts 10 any
thing can be kept quiet half an hour,
and how nreyou going TO keep 500, 900. :
900 Of them. quiet half an hour. You
know Heaven is much rsore Of a place
than IL was when that recess OF thirty
minutes occurred It's population has
quadrurhed, sextupled, centupled
Heaven has more on hand, more 0t
rapture, more,ef knowledge. more OF
ntercommunIcation moro of worship
There is not so much difference be-
tween Brooklyn seventy-6Ee years ago,
when there was "a few houses down on
the East river ard the village reached
up only TO Sands street, as compared
with what this gpeat city is now-yea,
not so much difference between New
York when Canal street waa far up
town, and now when Canal street
Is fnr down town, than there is
a difference between what Heaven
was when my text was written and
what Heaven is now. The most thrilling
place we have ever been in is stupid
compared with that, and, II we now
have no time to spare, we will then
have no eternity TO spare. Silenae in
Heaven only half an honrl
My subject also impresses me with
the immortality of half hour. That
half hour mentioned in my text is more
widely known than any ether period In
the calendar of Heaven. None of the