Milford chronicle., 1892-02-05

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 brevity, but
how will heaven get ON rapidly enough to
/ let the one hundred and fOrty-four thou.
sand get through each with his own story.
nv nd then the one hundred and fOrty-four
@s3SStthion, and then the one hundred and
fesey four billion, and then the one hun
disu Tl and + Nv four trllion.
TRA MATHIS Or ALL TIME TO DE cOAniEMO
M RATED.
Not Anly are all the tIiumphs Of the past
To be ec lnmemorated, but all the triumphs
to come. aNot only what we now know OF
God, but WI lat We will know Of him after
everlasting Judy of the Oeific. If my text
had said thereA was sie;ice in heaven foi
thirty days, w3QUld not have been startled
at the annoushcaWent but it indicates
thirty minutes Why, there will be sc
many friends to- hunt up, so many of the
greatly good AID useful that we will want
to see; so manycof the inscrutable things
of earth we wiil need explained; so many
exciting earthly experiences we will want
to talk ever, 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 lazaret
tos; the railroad engineers who staid
their places in order to save the train
/ though they themselves perished.
Hubert Coffin, the master miner, who
] landing from the bucket at the bottom oi
| the mine, just as he heard the wi,ters rush
] in, and when one jerk of the rope would
/ have lifted him into safety, put blind
miner who wanted to 90 to his sick child
in the bucket aud jerkcd 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 refuge ut the other
end of the right gallery" anl then giving
the command to the other miners till they
digged themselves so near ont that the
people from the outside could come to theil
rescue. The multituGes 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 hall
hours to spare
Besides that, heaven is full of children
They are in the vast majority. No child or
earth that amounts toanything can be kept
to keep five hundred million of them quiet
half an hour You know heaven is much
more of a place than it was when that re
cess of thirty minutes occurred. It's popu
lation has quadrupled, seytupled, cen
tupled Heaven has more on hand, more
of rapture, more Of knowledge, more of in |
tercommunicatiOn, more of worship
There is not so much difference between !
Brooklyn seventy five years ago, when
there were a few houses down on the East |
river and the village reached up only & |
Sands street. as compared with what this |
great city is now-yea, not so much differ 1
ence between New York when Canal street 4
was far up town and nov when Canal !
street is far down town. than there Is diff |
ference between what heaven was whel /
my text was written and what heaven i
now. The most thrilling place we hav' |
ever been in is stupid compared with that,
and if we now have no time to spare We
will then have no eternity TO spare. 81
lence in heaven only half an hour
HALF HOURS IMHoHTALITY.
Ny subject also impresses me with the
Immortality of half hour. That hal
hour mentioned in my text is more widely
known than any other period in the ca!en
dar of heaven. None of the whole hours OF
heaven are measured of, none Of the years,
none of the centuries. OF the millions Of
ages past and the millions Of ages to comt
not one is especially measured off in the
Bible The half hour of my text is made
immortal The only part Of eternity that
was ever measured by earthly timepiece
was measured 10y the minute hand Of my
text
Oh, the half hoursl They decide every
thing am not asking what you will do
with the years or months or days Of yOuI
life, but what of the half hours. Tell ms
the history Of your half hours and viii
tell you the story of your whole life on
earth and the story of your whole life ia
eternity The right or wrong things you
can think in thirty minutes the right o.
wrong things you can say in thirty min
utes, the right or wrong things you can Dc
in thirty minutes are glorious or baleful,
inspiring or desperate. Look out for The
fragments of time. They are pieces OF
eternity
It was the half hours between shoeing
horses that made Elihu Rurrtt the learned
blacksmith; the half hours between pro
fessional calls rs II physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, =
the half hours between his duties as school
master that made Salmon p. Chase chiet
Justice; the half hours between shoe lasts
shat made Henry Wilson vice president OF
the United States; the half hours between
canal boats that made james a. Garfield /
president
The half hour day for good books or
bad books, the half hour a day for prayer !
or Incidence, the half hour day for help
lag others or blasting others, the half hour
before you go to business and the half hour
after your return from husiness-that
I - aaIrtr &
and the ignOramus, between the Christian !
and the infldel, between the saint and the
lemon, between triumph and catastrophe,
between heaven and hell The most tre- 7
things Of your life and mine were l
certain half hours.
The half hour when in the parsonage Of I
q country minister l resolved to become a
Christian then and there; the half hour 8
when decided to becomea preacher OF the y
Gospel; the half hour when first realized
that my son was dead; the half hour when !
stood on the top Of my house in Oxford
street and saw orr church burn; the half l
hour in which / entered Jerusalem the ]
half hour in which assembled Mount Cal :
vary; the half hour in which ] stood on
Mars hill; the half hour in which the dedi-
,atOry prayer of this temple was made, and I
about ten OF fifteen other half hours are
5le chief times Of my life. You may iofgeg !
5he name OF the exact years or most of the
important events Of your existence, but {
hose half hours, like the half hour Of my
ext, will be immortal. {
1 do not query what you VIII do with the {
twentieth century, ] do not query what {
rou will do with 1892, but what will sou S
10 with the next half hour2 Upon that c
hinges your destiny And during that t
one Of you will receive the Gospel and 4
make complete surrender, and during that !
,thers Of you will make final and fatal re
ectiop Of the fun and free and urgent and
offer of life eternal, oh, that 7
he next half hour might be the most glo- s
'lous thirty minutes Of your earthly ex- S
stence.
Far back in history a great geographer :
tood with a sailor looking at globe that Z
our planet, and he pointed toa I
,lace on the globe where he thought there I