Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-11


sand Christians suffered death from sword
and fire and Punishment and exposure, why
did not heaven listen throughout at least
one Of thrse awful years: Mo- Thirty
minutes! The fact is that the celestial pro
gramme is so crowded with spectacle that
it can afford only one recess in all eternity
and that for short space.
While there are great choruses in which
Ill heaven can join, each soul there has a
ftory of divine mercy peculiar to itself and
1t must be solo How can heaven get
through with all its recitatives. with all
its cantos, with all its grand marches, with
all its victoriesS Eternity is too short to
utter all the praise In my text heaven
spared thirty minutes. but it will never
again spare one INFINITE. In worship in
earthly churches, when there are many to
take part. we have to counsel hreyity, but
how will heaven gst on rapidly enough to
let the one hundred and forty four thou
sand get through each with his own story,
and then the one hundred and forty
million, and then the one hundred and
forty four billion. and then the one hun
dred and forty four trillion
TRIUMPHs OF ALL TIME To BE cOMMEAio
RATED.
Not only are all the triumphs of the past
to be COMMUNICATED. but all the triumphs
to come Not only what we now know of
God, hut 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 would not have been startled
ut the announcement. but it indicates
thirty minutes Why there will be so
many friends TO hunt up, so many of the
greatly good and Slseful that we will want
TO see. so many OF the inserutable things
of earth we viii 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
pointed out to rs 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 lazaret-
tos the railroad engineers who staid at
their places in order to save the train
though they themselves persisted.
Hubert Coffin, the master miner, who,
landing from the bucket at the bottom of
the mine, just rs he heard the waters rush
in, and when one jerk of the rope would
have lifted him into safety, put blind
miner who wanted to go TO his sick child
in the bucket and jerked the rope for him
to be pulled up, crying, Tell them the
water has burst in and we are probably
lost. but we will seek refuge Mt the other
end of the right gallery and then giving
the command TO the other miners till they
digged themselves so near out that the
people from the outside could come to their
rescue The multitudes OF men and women
who got no crown on earth we will want
to see when they get their crown in heaven.
| tell you heaven will have no more half
hours to spare,
Besides that, heaven is full of children.
They are in the vast majority. No child ON
earth that amounts to anything can be kept
quiet half an hour. and how are you going
to keep five hundred million of them quiet
half an hour You know heaven is much
more of place than il was when that re-
cess Of thirty minutes occurred. Its popu.
lation has quadrupled, sextupled, cen
tuped Heaven has more on hand, more
Of rapture. more of knowledge more of in.
accommodation. more Of worship.
There is not 50 much difference between
Brooklyn seventy five years ago when
Z
river and the village reached up only To
Sands street AS compared with what this
great city Is now-yea not 50 much differ
ence between New York when Canal street
was far up town and now when Canal
street is far down town, than there is diff
ference between what heaven was when
my text WAS written and what heaven is
now The most thrilling place we have
ever been in is stupid compared with that,
and if we now have no time to spare we
will then have no eternity to spare. 81
lence in heaven only half an hourl
HALF HOURS IMMORTALITY.
My subject also impresses me with the
of half hour. That half
hour mentioned in my text is more widely
known than any other period in the calen
iar of heaven. None of the whole hours Of
heaven are measured of, 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 of in the
Bible The half hour OF my text is made
The only part Of eternity that
was ever measured by earthly timepiece
was measured by the minute hand of my
text
Oh. the half hoursl They decide every
hing. am not asking WHAT You VIII 90
with the years or Iaonths or days of your
life. but what of the half hours. Tell me
the history of your half hours and viii
tell you the story Of your whole life on
sarth aud the story Of your whole life in
eternity The right or wrong things you
AN think IN thirty minutes, the right or
wrong things you can say in thirty min
ties. the right or wrong things you can do
n thirty minutes are glorious or baieful.
inspiring or desperate Look out for the
fragments Ct time. They are pieces of
sternity
1t was the half hours between shooting
horses that made Elihu Burritt the learned
the half hours between pro
iessional calls as a physician that made
4 bercrombie the Christian philosopher, |
he half hours between his duties as school |
master that made Salmon p. Chase chief |
Justice: the half hours between shoe lasts |
hat made Henry Wilson vice president of |
he United States: the half hours between |
anal boats that made James A. Garfield |
PRESIDENT
The half hour day for good books or
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