Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-04

Tw.ntieth century, do not query what |
sou will do with 1902, but what will you !
do with the next half horr2 Upon that |
hinges your destiny. And during that |
some of you will receive the Gospel and
make complete surrender, and during TINT
others of you wiz make final and fatal re
lection Of tie full end frec and urgent and
impassioned offer of life eternal. Oh, that
the next half hour might be the most glo-
rious thirty minutes of your earthly ex-
istence.
Far back in history a great geographer
stood with sailor looking at globe that
represented our planet, and he pointed toa
place Oh the globe where he thought there
was an undiscovered continent. The UNI
discovered continent was America. The
geographer " no pointed where he thought
there YVES a new world was Martin Be
hahn, and the sailor to whom he showed it
was Columbus This last WAS not satisfied
till he had picked that gem out of the sea
and set it in the crown of the worlds geog-
raphy. Oh, ye who have been sailing up
and down the rough seas of sorrow and
sin, let me point out to You another conti-
nent, yea. another world, that you may
Yourselves find II rapturous world, aud
that is the VOID a half hour of which we
now study Oh. set sail for it! Here is the
In other words, make this half hour, be
ginning at twenty minutes of twelve by
my watch, the graudest half hour of your
life and become a Christian. Pray for
reeeneratcd spirit. Louis XIV, while
walking in She garden at Versailles met
Mansard, the great architect, and the
architect took OIL his hat before the king
"put on your hat" said the king, for the
evening is damp and cold" And Mansard,
the architect, the rest of the evening kept
on bis hat. The dukes and marquises
standing with bare heads before the king
expressed their surprise at Mansard, but
the king said, II can make duke or
marquis, but God only can make Man
sard." And say to you, my hearers, God
only 10y his convicting and converting grace
can make a Christian, but he is ready this
very half hour to accomplish 1t.
WAY OF STUDYING HEAVEN.
Again, my text suggests way of study
ing heaven so that we can better under
stand it. The word eternity" that we
handle so much is an immeasurable word.
knowing that we could not understand
that word the Bible uses 1t only once. We
saw. Forever and ever;" but how long is
forever and ever?" am glad that my
text puts under our eye heaven for thirty
minutes As when you would see great
picture you put IL sheet OF paper into scroll
and look through it, or join your forehnger
to your thumb und look through the circle
between, and the picture becomes more
intense, so this masterpiece of heaven by
St. John is more impressive when we take
only thirty minutes of it at a time. Now
we have something that we can come near
err to graspiny, and it is quiet heaven.
When we discourse about the multitudes
ohocL IN +hC,.o who haze all their lives
hnor crny.ded bv many neon1e and who
want , on;et heaven
Eor fbe Inst ,birtv-fve vears have been
much If the tine in crowds and under
,,,,t1;o sor,,t;,, md avoid evc;+ooonts and
I b.,.o sor,otiyrac tboro bt for a fe1v xyeols
.ftnr 7 reach heaven would like to &c
dn,,-,, in como ouiat mart of the realm yvith
law f,jcnds and for a little while FRY
co.,n,rntive solitude Then there are
,hn.a whose hearing is Ga dclicote that
.,,.,. ,,ot M c.tisf,rtion vben Won describe
tLocrocb of the eternal orchestra and fbey
fool I;i-o .,vin,, og a ooo5 woman in Hud
sop y Y sai6 after hearing me sneak al
tho mightv cho~rs of heaven '.That mus-
he n Great beayen. but what will become
OF my moor hcqdt" Yes. this half hour OF
ny. t.It is q still eyneriruce.
'''llrre Was silence in heaven for half al
hour" You will find the inhabitants al
nj home Enter the Kin,,'s Palace ane
t,i,e only "A glimpse. for we have ONLY
thirty minutes for alI heaven. lis tina,
.I,,us>" .Y,s" Just under the hoj
nlong his forehead j., the mark of a woun,
made bv a bunch of twisted bramblcs. ant
his fool on the throne has on the round o
hi, iusr,p another mark of a wound mad,
hva snike and scar ON thc palm of TN,
right h1nd and n scar on the paln Of tL,
Icft hand Rut what a counteranca, \yho
n smile, What grandeur, What love
lircss, What an OVERWHELMING lool; o
Kindness and rrocer WHY. he iool,s MS j
he had redeemed n world But come on
fIronrtirne il short Devon scr tbnt row .
noIaca.9 That is tbo Apostolic row N
ro,, soc tbnt lou, roach of architecture
Slorie,y THAT is MARTYR row. DO Won sc
That immense structure9 That is the bio
,-ost blII.a in heaven. that is ..tha Ioue,
of MAN. Mansions - 10 Won sea hat w,Il
shade vonr ewes against its burnin,, snlcn
do, to,, ,h.+'i. +Ll ,.,,l of bno,on iduno
at IVA bortom a.d nn,.thvst nj The tn,,
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