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

ltllln. IIlP DIOClttlAn pclSpCullOQS, Dy
which eight hundred and forty-four thou
sand Christians suffered death from sword
and fire and Danish nent and ex posure, why
did not heaven listen throughout at least
one of those awful years. Mol Thirty
minutes! The fact is that the celestial pro
erammc is 90 crowded with spectacle that
il can afford Only one recess III all eternity
and that for a short space.
While there are great choruses in which
all heaven can join, each soul there has a
story OF divine mercy peculiar to itself and
it must I've "A sDlo. How can heaven get
through with all its recitatves. with all
H. cantoq with all it's grand marches, with
nil it's victories? Eternity is too short to
utter all the praise. In my text heaven
spared thirty minutes, but it will never
again spare one minute. In worship in
earthly churches, when there are many to
take part. we have to counsel brevity, but
how will heaven set 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-four
million, and then the one hundred and
foty-four billion and then the one hun
dred and foi1y-toIlr lion
TEluMPils or ALI IiNiE TO BE CoMNEMo-
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 but what we will know of him after
everlasting study Of the Deilic. If my text
had said there WIS silence in heaven for
thirty days would not have been startled
Mt the announcement, 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
e, 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 AL the other spirits and
all the ACES viii want the same, that there
will tie no more opportunity for cessation.
Eov busy we Will he kept in having
pointed ont to us the heroes and hcroines
chat the world never fully appreciated
the yellow fever and cholera doctors who
died, not flying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pcstilence in the azaret-
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
tie mine. Just as 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 icrkcd the rope for him
! TO be pulled mp, crying, Tell them the
water has burst in and we are probably
lost. hut we will seek refuge at the other
cnd of the right gallery" and then giving
the command to the other miners till they
liaged themselves so near out that the
people from Tie outside could come to their
rescue The mulitudes Of men and women
who got no crown on earth we will want
| to see when they get their crown in heaven
| tell ycu heaven will have no more hall
hours to spare.
BESIDES that, heaven is full of children
| They are in he vast ma iority. No child or
ea1th that amounts to anything can be kept
alict half an hour, ana how are you going
! 10 keep five h0ndrcd million of them quiet
half an hour You know heaven is much
uore of place than it was when that re
cess Of thirty minutes occurred It's popu
| atiJn has quadruped, seXtupled, cen
tuped. Heaven has more on hand, more
Of rapture, more Of knowledge, more OF i'll
accommodation, more of worship.
There is not 50 much difference between
Brooklyn seventy five years ago. whel
tllere were a few houses down on the Eas
! river and the village reached up only t.
! sands street, as compared with what thi.
great city l. rOv-yca, not so much GitIcr
rnce bet wcen New York when Canal stree
was far up town and now when Can"
street is far down town, than there is Il di.
ference between what heaven was whcl
NY text WAS written and what heaven i
nov. The laO.t thrilling place we hav,
ever been in is s,lIpd compared with that
! and If we nOW have no time to spare w
viii then have no eternity to spare. 81
lence il heaven only half an hour!
\ HALF HOURS IMMORTALITY.
| Nv subject also impras,ya me with tn
| Immortality Of half hour That hal
! hour mentioned in my text is more wdel.
| known tEan any other period in the calen
| dar Of heaven. None of the whole hours O
heaven are measured of, none OF the years
none Of the centuries. OF the millions o
ages past and the millions Of ages to com
not one is especially measured OFF in tn
Bible. The half hour of my text is mad
immortal The only part of eternity tina
was ever measured by earthly tinepiec
was measured by the minute hand of m
text
Oh, the half hoursl They decide every
thing. am not asking what you VIII d.
with the years or months or days OF you
lie, but what of the nalf hours Tell n
the history OF your half hours and wi!
tell you the story OF your whole life o
earth and the story Of your whole life i
eternity The right or wrong things yo
can think in thirty minutes, the right @
wrong things you can say in thirty mir
utes, the ri ht or wrong things you can d
in thirty minutes are glorious or balefu
inspiring or desperate, Look out for tn
fragments of time, They are pieces {
eternity.
1t was the half hours between shoein
horses that made Elihu Burritt the learns
blacksmith; the half hours between pro
fessional calls as a physician that mad
Aberuronbie the Christian philosopheI
the half hours between his duties a schoo
master that made Salmon p. Chase chic
Justice: the half hours between shoe last
that made Henry Wilson vice president
the United States; the half hours betwee
canal boats that made James A. CARTEL
president.
The half hour day for good books c
bad books, the half hour Il day for prayc
or Incidence, the half hour day for hell
Ing others or blasting others, the half hou
before you 20 to business and the half hoU
after your return from busintSs-ths