Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-06


past Six 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 l, 100. 900 dead, according to Jo-
sephus Grotius thinks that this was
the cause of silence in Heaven for half
an hour. II Mr.. Lord was right and
this silence was during the Diocletian
prosecutions, by which $4,000 Christ
ians suffered death from sword and IRE,
and Punishment and exposure, why did
not Heaven listen throughout at least
one of those awful years? No! Thirty
minutes! The fact is that the celestial
programme is SO crowded with specta-
Gle that it can afford only one recess
in all eternity and that for short
space.
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 thousand get
get through each other with his own
story, and then the one hundred and
forty-four million and then the one
hundred and forty-four billion. and
then the one hundred and forty
four trillion. Not only are oil the
triumphs of the past to be comment
Grated, but all the triumphs to come.
Not only what we now know of God, but
what we will know of him after ever
lasting study of the Deific If nv
text had said there was silence
in Heaven for thirty days, would not
have been startled at the announce
ment, 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 will
want to talk, and all the other spirits
and all the ages will want the same,
that there will be no more opportunities
for cessation. How busy we will be
kept in having pointed out to rs the
heroes and heroines that the world
never fully appreciated
The multitudes Of men and women
who got no crown on earth, we will
want to see when they get their crowns
in Heaven. tell You Heaven will
have no more half hours to spare. Be-
sides that Heaven is full of children.
They are in the vast majority. No
child on earth who amounts to any
thing can be kept quiet half an hour,
and how are you going to keep $780,
600, 900 of them quiet half an hour.
You know Heaven is much more
of a place than 1t was when
that recess of thirty minutes oc-
Cured. It's population is quad
rupled. sextupled, centupled. Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of intercom-
munication, more of worship.
Ny subject also impresses me with
the immortality of half hour. That
half hour mentioned in my text is
more widely known than any other
period in the calendar of Heaven.
None of the whole hours OF Heaven are
measured off. 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 o. the half
hours! They decide everything. am
not asking what you will do with the
years or months or days Of your life,
but what OF the half hours.
Tell me the history of your half
hours, and I 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 in thirty minutes,
the right or wrong things you can do
in thirty minutes are glorious or bale
full, inspiring or desperate. Look out
for the fragments Of time. The
half hour day for good books or bad
books, the half hour day for prayer
or indolence, the half hour a day for
helping others or blasting others, the
half hour before you 60 to business and
the half hour after your return from
business that makes the difference be-
tween the scholar and the ignoramus,
between the Christian and the infidel,
between the saint and the demon, be-
tween triumph and catastrophe, be-
tween Heaven and hell.
I do not query what you will do with
the twentiety century, / do not query
what you will do with 1892. but what
will. you do with the next half hour?
Upon that hinges your destiny. And
during that some OF You will receive
the gospel and make complete sur
render, aud during that others of You
will make final and fatal rejection of
the full and free and urgent and inn
passioned offer of life eternal o, that
the next half hour might be the most