Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-02-04

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most tremendous thing of your life
and mine were certain half-hours
The half-hour when in the parsonage
of country minister | resolved to be
come a christian then and there; the
half-hour when / decided to become
a preacher of the gospel; the half-hour
when first realized that my son was
dead; the halfhour when sto d on tho
top of my house in oxford street and
saw our church burn; the half-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
dedicatory prayer of this temple was
made and about ten or fifteen other
half-hours, are the chief times of my
life. You may forget the name of the
exact years or most of the important
events of your existence, but
those halfhours, like the half hour
of my text, will be immor-
tai, do not query what you will do
with the Twentieth century, ! do not
query what you will do with 1892, Int
what will you do with the next half
hour! Upon that hinges your destiny.
And, during that some of You will re-
ceive the gospel and make complete
! surrender, and during that others of
you will make final and fatal rejection
| of the full and free and urgent and
! imprisoned offer of life eternal. Oh,
! that the next half-hour might be the
most glorious thirty minutes Of your
earthly existence. Far back in history
great geog-apher stood with n sailor
| looking at globe that represented
the globe where he thought there was
an undiscovered continent. The I'M
| discovered continent was America.
| The geographer who pointed where he
thought there was a new world was
| Martin Behaim, and the sailor to whom
! he showed it was Columbus. This last
was not satisfied tlll he had picked
that gem out of the sea and set it in
the crown of the worlds geography.
| Oh, We, win have been sailing up ana
! down the rough seas of sorrow and in,
| let me point out to you another CONT
nent, yea, another world that you
may yourselves find, a rapturous
! world, and that is the world a half
hour of which we now study. Oh, set
! sail for it, Here is the ship and here
are the compasses In other words,
make this half hour, beginning at
! twenty minutes of twelve by my
watch, the grandest half hour of Your
! life and become a Christian. Pray for
a rcgenerated spirit Louis NV,
while walking in the garden at Yer
| sailles met Mansard, the great archi-
tect, and the architect took off his hat
before the king. Put on your hat,
SAID the king, for the evening is damp
! and cold" And Mansard, the archi-
! tect the rest of the e; ening
! kept on his hat. The dukes and mar.
! quises standing with bare heads before
the king, expressed their surprise at
| Mausard, but the king said: 81 can
make a duke or n marquis, but God
only can make Mausard. And say
! to you. my hearers, God only by his
convlcting and converting grace can
make a Christian, but he is ready this
very half-hour to accomplish it.
The day will come when you can see
! heaven in full blast, but not now.
am now only showing J on heaven at
the dullest half-hour of all the eterni-
ties. Come on! There is something
in the celestial appearance which
makes me think that the half-hour of
silence will soon be Ger Yonder
are the white horses being hitched to
chariots, and yonder are seraphs
lingering harps as if about to strike
them into symphony, and yonder are
con Iue ors taking down from the
blue halls of heaven trumpe of vic,
tory. Remember, we are mortal
yet, and cannot endure the full roll
of heavenly harmOnies and cannot en-.
dure even the silent heaven for more
than half an hoer. Hank. the clock
in the tower of heaven begins to
strike, and the half hour is ended.
Des end. Come back! Come down.
till yCur work is done. Shoulder a
little longe: your burdens Fight q
little longer your battles, Weep a
little longer your griefs. And then
take heaven in its dullest half hour,
but in it's mightiest pomp, and, instead
of taking it for thirty minutes, take il
world without end.
hut how will you end the first
half-hour of your heavenly citizenship
after you have gone in to stay? After
your prostration Iefore the throne IN
worship of him who made it possible
for you to get there at all, think the
rest of your first half-hour in heaven
will be passed in receiving your re-
ward if you have been faithful
have a strangely beautiful book con
tanning the pictures of the medals
struck by the Engl: sh Government il
honor of great battles; these medals
pinned over the heart of the returned
heroes of the army, on great oc
cssions, the Royal family present, and
the Royal bands playing: the Crimear
medal the Legion of Honor, the Vic
your first half-hOur in heaven in som,
way you will be honored for tn,
earthly struggles in which you wor
the day. Stand up before all the Roya
House of heaven and receive the in
sigma while you are announced as ;
Victor over the droughts and freshet
of the farm field, Victor over tn,
temptations of the stock exchange
Victor over professional allurements
Victor over domestic infelicitIes, Victo
over mechanics shop, Victor owe
the store house, Victor Owe
home worriments, Victor over phys
ical distresses, Victor over hereditar
depressions, Victor over sin and dealt
and hell. Take the badge that cele
brdtes those victories through GU
Lord Jesus Christ Take it in the pres
ence of a the galleries, sanity, angeli
and Divine! While all heaven chants
These are they who came out of grea
trIbulation and had their robes washe
and made white in the blood of tn
r Lamb
Thy saints in all this glorious war