Connecticut western news., 1892-02-04
SILENCE IN HEAVEN.
IT LASTED BUT THE SPACE OF
 THIRTY MINUTES.

Dl ESTlIHuTt ludt Sotul lO law tVSb neglected and here is q sermon on a mautlful text which probably was never before selected for discourse 1 Revelation viii 1. There was silence :n heaven about the space of half an hour"
 The busiest place in the universe l. heaven. It is the center from which all goM influences start; 1t is the goal at winch all g,,od results arrive. The Bible represents It as active with wheels and wings and orcheStras and prN'esSsions mounted or sharloted But my text describes a space when the wheels ceased to roll. and the trllmpets to sound. and the voices to chant The riders on the white horses leined in their chargers. The loxologies were huShed and the pro 'tssslons halted The hand of arrest WAS put upon all the splendors Stop. heaven!" cried an omnipotent vol,e. and it stopped For thirty minutes everything celestial stood ~tlll. There was silence n heaven for half an hour"
 HEAVENS ONLY INTERAIssIoN.
 From all We can learn 1t ls the only time heaven ever stopped It does not stop as other cities, for the night for there is no night there. It does not stop for d plague. for the lnhab Itant never says. Il am sick It does not stop for bankruptcies, for it's Tn nabitants never fail. It tlot~ not stop for impossible streets for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping fresh -ts. What, then. stopped 1t for thirty mlnutesf tIrUtillS and Professor Stu tIt think that It was at the time of The destruction of Jerusalem Mir Lord thinks It was In the year 3ll tRtween the close of the Dix,let1an persecution and the beginning of the wars by which Constantine gained rhe throne But that was all guess though a learned and brilliant glIesss 1 do not know when It was and do not care when It was, but of the fact That such an Interreguum of sound took place am certain. 'There was silence. m heaven for half an hour"
 And. first of all we may learn that tlod and all heaven houofpd silence. The longest and widest dominion that ever existed ls that over which stlll ness was queen. For an eternity there mad not been sound World making was a later day otsupatlon For un imaginable ages It was mute unl- verse God was the only belng. and ,ts there was no one to speak to there was no utterante. But that silence has been all broken up into worlds, and 1t has become a noisy universe. Worlds Tn upheavel worlds in con geIation. worlds in ,eDntiagration. worlds ln revolution.
 If geploglSts are right tand l be IIeve they areI there has not been . moment of silence snce thls world began lts travels. and the crashings and the spllttings, and the upr'ar and the hubbub are ever ln progress But when among the super-nals a voice erred, Hush '" and for half an nouT heaven was stlll. silene was nonoreri The full power of silence many of us have yet to learn. We
 
 ralgned He answered not word" That silence was louder than any thunder that ever shts,k the world
 OfttlmeS. when we are assailed and mlsrppresentea the mighuest thing to say s to say nothing, and the mIghtiest thing to do ls to do nothing Thosae people who are al ways rushing into print to get them selves set right accomplish nothing but their own chag11n. Silencel Do r1ght and leave the results with God. Among the grandeSt lessons the world has ever learned are the les Sons of patience taught by those who endured untumplaInIngly personal pr domestic or slcial or political Ill justice Stronger than any bitter or Sa1zistic or revengeful answer was the Eanent silence,
 The famous Dr. Morrison. Of Chel ~e.a. accomplished as much by his silent patience H. by his pen and tongue. He had asthma that for twenty five years brought hum out of k couch at two o'clock each morning His four sons and daughters dead. The remaining child by sunstroke made insane The affiicted man >ald At this moment there is not an inch of my body thatls not filled with agony" Yet he was cheerful. triumphant. silent Thuse who were ID his presence said they felt as though they were in the gates of heaven
 Oh. the power of patient silencel Ess'hylus the immortal poet. WAS condemned to death for writing something that offended the people. All the pleas in his behalf were of no avail until his brother uncovered the arm of the prisoner and showed that bis hand had been shot of at Salamis. That silent plea liberated nm The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and t' the right time There was quaint old hymn. spelled in the old style, md once sung III the churches: | The race is not forever got
 Br him who fastest runs.
 | Nor the BatteI by thu-e peopei That shoot with the longest gnns.
 My friends. the tosSing Sea of Cali lee seemed most to offend Christ by the amount of noise it made. for he said, Be stlllr' Heaven has been crowning kings and queens unto God for many centuries yet heaven never stopped moment for any surh otrInsence. put II stopped thirty 1 minutes for the coronation of Silence 1 There was silence in heaven for half all hour
 | THEY ARR BUSY IS HEAVEN.
 Learn also from my text that heaven must be an eventful and ac. | tive place from the fat.t that if ,.iIld