Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-11
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do with the next half hourY upon THAT
hinges your destiny And during that
some of you will receive the Gospel and
make complete surrender and during that
others Of you will make final and fatal re
lection Of the full and free and urgent and
fnpassioned offer of life eternal. oh, that
The next half hour might be the most glo-
rious thirty minutes of your earthly ex-
lstence
Far back in history a great geographer
stood with sailor looking at globe that
represented our planet, and he pointed toa
place on the globe where he thought there
was an undiscovered continent. The I'M
discovered continent was America. The
geographer who pointed where he thought
there was 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 il in he 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 "A rapturous world and
that is the world half hour of which we
now study, Oh, set sail for i'll Here is the
ship and here are the eompasses.
In other words, make this half hour. be-
ginning at twenty minutes of twelve by
my watch, the grandest half hour of your
life and become a Christian. Pray for a
regenerated spirit Louis XIV, while
walking in the garden at Versailles met
Mansard, the great architect, and the
architect took off 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 his hat. The dukes and marquises
standing with bare heads before the king
expressed their surprise at Mansard, but
the king said, II can make a duke or "A
marquis, but God only can make a Man
sard. And say TO you, my hearers, God
only by his eonvicting and converting grace
can make a Christian, but he is ready this
very half hour to accomplish it.
WAY OF STUDYING HEAVEN.
Again, my text suggests "A way OF study
ing heaven so that we can better under
stand it, The word eternity" that we
handle 80 much is an immeasurable word.
Knowing that we could not understand
that word the Bible uses il only once. We
say Forever and ever" but how long is
forever and eyerf" ! am glad that my
text puts under our eye heaven for thirty
minutes. As when you would see great
picture you puta sheet Of paper into scroll
and look through il, or join your fOrefinger
TO your thumb and 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 ut "A time. Now
we have something that we can come near
er TO grasping, and il is a quiet heaven.
When we discourse about the multitudes
of heaven il must be almost Il nervous
shock TO those who have all their lives
been crowded by many people and who
want quiet heaven
For the last thirty-dve years have been
much Of the time in crowds and under
public scrutiny and amid excitements, and
| have sometimes thought for few weeks
after | reach heaven would like TO go
down in some quiet part of the realm with
"A few friends and for a little while try
solitude. Then there are
those whose hearing is so delicate that
they get no satisfaction when you describe
the crash Of the eternal orchestra, and they
feel like saying, as good woman in Hud-
son. " Y, said. after hearing me speakof
the mighty chorus Of heaven, THAT must
be a great heaven, but what will become
Of my poor headf" Yes, this half hour Of
my text is a still experience.
"There was silence In heaven for half an
hour" You will find the inhabitants all !
at home Enter the Kings Palace and |
take only glimpse, for we have only |
thirty minutes for all heaven. is that |
Jesusr" Yes" just under the hair |
along his forehead is the mark Of wound |
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his foot on the throne has on the round Of |
his instep another mark Of wound made |
by a spike, and scar on the palm OF the /
right hand and scar on the palm OF the |
left hand But what countenancel What 1
a smilel What a GRANDEUR What love !
linessl What an overwhelming look Of |
and gracel Why, he looks as If I
he had redeemed a world But come on, i
for our time is short. Doyou see that row OF /
palacess That is the Apostolic row. Do |
you see that long reach Of architectural 1
gloriesg That is Martyr row. Do you see
that immense structure? That is the big 1
gest house in heaven; that is 'the House |
Of Many Mansions" Do you see that wall? I
Shade your eyes against its burning SPLEEN
dor, for that is the wall Of heaven, jasper
at the bottom and amethyst at the top.
See this river rolling through the heart of
the great metropolis That is the river
which those who once lived on
the banks Of the Hudson, or the Ala
bama. or the Rhine, or the Shannon
say. I'VE never saw the like of this
for clarity and sheen" That is the
chief river of heaven-so bright, SO
wide, so deep. But you ask, Where are
the asylums for the oldy" answer, THE
are all young" Where are
the hospitals for the lamef" They are
ali agile" Where are the infirmaries for
he blind and deafy" They all see and
hear" Where are the almshouses for
.he poory" They are all multimillion-
aires Where are the inebriate asy-
umsy" why, there are no saloons"
Where are the graveyardsH why,
hey never die Pass down those boule-
yards Of gold and amber and sapphire and
zee those interminable streets built by the
Architect Of the universe into homes,
,ver the threshold Of which sorrow
lever steps. and out Of whose win
lows faces. once pale with earthly sick
hess, now look rubicund with immortal
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