The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-12

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 all the
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, l 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 us 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. 1 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 500,-
100000 of them quiet half an hour.
of a place than it was when
that recess of thirty minutes oc-
CURED. Its population is quad
rupled, sextupled, centupled. Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture,
more of knowledge, more of intercom-
munication, more of worship. There
is not so much difference between
Brooklyn seventy-ffve years ago, when
there were few houses down on the
East river and the village reached up
only to Sands street, rs compared with
what this great city is now-yea, not
so much difference between New York
when Canal street was far up town and
now when Canal street is far down
town, than there is a difference be-
tween what Heaven was when my text
was written and what Heaven is now.
My 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
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 1 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. They are
pieces of eternity. 1t was the half
hours between shoeing horses that
made Elihu Burritt the learned black
smith, the half hours between profess
sional calls as physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philoso-
pher, the half hours between his
duties as schoolmaster that made
Salmon z. Chase chief JUS
tice, the half hours be-
tween shoe lasts that made Henry Will
son vice-president of the United States,
the half hours between canal boats that
made James A. Garfield president. The
half hour day for good books or bad
books, the half hour day for prayer
or Incidence. the half hour day for
helping others or blasting others, the
half hour before you go 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.
1 do not query what you will do with
the twentiety century, l 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, and during that others of you
will make final and fatal rejection of
the full and free and urgent and i'm
passioned offer of life eternal o, that
the next half hour might be the most
glorious thirty minutes of your earthly
existence. Far back in history great
geographer stood with sailor, looking
at globe that represented our planet,
and he pointed to n place on the globe
where he thought there was an undis-
covered continent The undiscovered
continent was America. The geog-
rapher 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 it in the crown
of the worlds geography. o, We who
have been sailing up and down the
rough sea of sorrow and sin, let me
point to you another continent yea,
another world, that you may your
selves find, a rapturous world, and that
is the world half hour of which we
now study. o, set sail for it! Here is
the ship and here are the compasses.
In other words, make this half hour,
beginning at twenty minutes of twelve