Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-04

posure. why did not heaven 'Sooi,
fhrourhout at least one OF those aWiui
yearsp No! Thirty minutes! Inc iacc
is that the celestial programme - ~
crowded with spectacle that IL can '.uolu
only ono recess in all eternity, ana thaI
for a short space. While there are sreae
choruses in which all Heaven can loin'
each soul there has story oi ulViho
mercy peculiar to itself, and IT must oe y
solo. low can Heaven get through WIN
all it's recitatives. with all its ca,i1os'
with ali its grand marches, Win all us
victories? Eternity IS too SNORT W ue1oi
all the praise
Tn nv text Heaven spared thirty min
ntes. but it will never again spare one
minnie In worship in earthly charches,
when there arc many TO take paro' wy W.,
have TO council hrevty, but how VIII
Heaven get on rapidly enough to let 144,-
600 get through each with his own
story. and then the l44, O00,0 ana theh
the la. 600. 600, 900, and then the 144,-
600, 900, 900, 900.
Not only are all the triumphs OF the
mast 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 everlasting study OF
the Deific. If my text had said there
was silence in Heaven for thirty DAYS l
wonld not have been startled at the an
nouncement, but it indicates thirty MN
utes. Why, there will be SO many frlenos
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
nojntcd ont 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. tell you Heaven will have
no more have hours to spare.
Besides that, Heaven is full or chill
dren. They are in the vast majority.
No child on earth that amounts to any
thing can be kept quiet hall an hour,
and how are you going to keep 500, OOO,-
900 Of them quiet half an hour' You
know Heaven is much more or place
than it was when that recess OF thirty
minutes occurred. Its population has
quadrupled, seXtupled, centupled. Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture, more
of knowledge, more OF lnter-coummunlca-
ton, more Of worship.
My subject also impresses me with the
immortality of half an hour. That half
hour mctloned in my text is more widely
known than any other period in the cal
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hours of Heaven are measured off, none
of the years, none Of the centuries OF
the millions of ages past and the millions
of ages to come, 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 by the minute hand OF my
text.
Oh, the half hours! They decide every
thing. | am not asking what you will
do with the years or months or days OF
your life, but what of the half hours?
Tell mo the history of your half hours
and / will tell you the story Of your
whole life on earth and the story of your
whole life in eternity. The right or
wrong things you can think in thirty
minutes, the right or wrong things you
can say i'll thirty minutes, the right or
wrong things you can do in thirty min
utes are glorious or baleful inspiring or
desperate. Look out for the frag-
ments of time. They are pieces of
eternity.
1t was the half hours between shooting
horses that made Elhu Burritt the
| learned blacksmith, the half hours be-
:. I'm professional calls as a physician
no. made Abercrombie the Christian
Dsopher, the half hours between his
\ N. ,s as q schoolmaster that made Sal
= nv! p. Chase Chief Justice, the half
is between shoe lasts that made Hen
. Pllson Vice President Of the United
IIIfMcs, the half hours between canal
%YL1S that made James A. Garfield Presi-
SSk@le half hour day for good books or
T$~lboolls, the half hour a day for prayer
\Nxdolence, the half hour a day for
\NWing others or blasting others, the
". hour before you go to business, and
- af hour after You return from bust
'"'s-- 4; that makes the difference between
a scholar and the ignoramus, between
inc Christian and the intidel, between
the saint and the demon, between tr-
umph and catastrophe, between Heaven
and hell The most tremendous things
OF your life and mine were certain half
hours.
The half hour when in the parsonage
OF country minister l resolved to be-
come Christian then and there; the
half hour when / decided to become a
preacher of the Gospel; the half hour
when | realized that my son was dead:
the half hour when stood on the top of
my house in Oxford street ard saw orr