Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-12
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That shoot with the longest gun.
NV friends, the tossing sea Of Gallce
seemed more to offend Christ by the amount
of noise it made, for He said to it. BE
still" Heaven has been browning Kings
and Queens unto God for many centuries
yet heaven never stopped a moment tor
any such occurrence, but it stopped thirty
minutes for the coronation of Silence
"There was silence in heaven for the space
of half an hour"
Learn also from my text that heaven
must be an eventful and active place from
the fact that it could afford only thirty
minutes of recess. There have been events
on earth and in heaven that seemed to de-
manN a whole day or whole week or whole
year for celestial consideration. II GrOtius
was right and this silence occurred at the
time Of the destruction of Jerusalem, that
scene was so awful and so prolonged that
the inhabitants OF heaven could not have
done justice to it in many weeks. After
fearful Disagreement of the two fortresses Of
Jerusalem -- Antonio and Hippicus- had
been going on for Il long while, a Roman
soldier mounted on the shoulder of another
soldier hurled into the window of the tenn
pie 'nrebrand, and the temple was all
aliame. and after covering many sacrifices
to the holiness of God, the building itself
became a sacrifice to the rage Of man. The
hunger of the people in that city during
the heSiegemrnt was so great that rs
some outlaws were passing Il doorway and
inhaled the Odors of food they burst open
the door, threatening the mother of the
household with death unless she gave
them some food, and she took them aside
and showed them that it was her own child
she was cooking for the CHASTITY repast. Six
hundred priests were DESTROYED on Mount
Zion because. the temple being gone, there
was nothing for them to do. Six thousand
people in one cloister were consumed.
There were 100, 900 Gend, according to
Josephus GrOtius thinks that this was the
cause of silence in heaven for half an hour.
1t Mr.. Lord was right, and this silence was
during the Diocletian prosecutions, 10y
which S!4 900 Christians suffered death
from sword and fire, and Punishment and
exposure, why did not heaven listen
throughout at least one of those awful
years? No! Thirty minutes! The fact is
that the celestial programme is so crowded
with spectacle that it can afford only ono
| recess in all eternity, and that for short
| space. While there are great chorouses in
which all heaven can join, each soul there
| has story OF divine mercy peculiar to it
| self, and it must be solo. How can heaven
| get through with all its solos, as well as
| all its rectatives, with all its cantatas,
| with all its grand marches with all its vic
| tories? Eternity is too short to utter all
| the praise.
Not only are all the triumphs Of the past
| to be commemOrated, 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 Deitlc. If my text
| had said there was silence in heaven for
| thirty days, would not have been startled
| at the announcement, but it indicates thir-
| tyminutes. Why, there will be so many
| friends to hunt up; 80 many of the greatly
| good and useful that we will want to see;
50 many of the unsorutable things of earth
we will need explained so many exciting
| earthly experiences we will want to talk
over, and all the other spirits and the ages
will want the same, that there will be no
| opportunity for cessation. How busy we
| will be kept In having pointed out to us the
| heroes and heroines that the world never
| fully apureciated-the yellow fever and
| cholera doctors, who died not flying from
| their posts; the female nurses who faced
| pestilence in the laZarettoes; the railroad
| engineers who stayed at their places in or
der to save the train, though they them
| selves persisted and went down through
| the open drHwbridge.
Hubert Coffin, the master miner, who
landing from the bucket at the bottom Of
| the NINE just as he heard the waters rush
| IN, anu Wueu OHc JeIh Vi tue IOPo WOulu
| have lifted him to safety, put blnC
miner who wanted to go to his sick chile
in the bucket, and jerked the rope for hin
to be pulled up, crying: Tell them The
water has burst in and we are probably
lost but we will seek refuge at the othe1
end Of the gallery" and then giving tn
command to the other miners till the,
digged themselves so near out that thu
people from the outside could come to thei
rescue. The multitudes of men and WON
en- who got no crown on earth, we will
want to see when they get their crown il
heaven. | tell you heaven will have ne
more half hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of children
They are in the vast majority. No child OF
earth who amounts to anything can be KEEP
quiet half an hour, and how are you COINS
to keep 900, 600 900 of them quiet half al
hour. You know heaven is much more of
place than it was when that recess Of thir
ty minutes occurred. Its population ha
quadrupled, sextupled, centupled Heaven
has more on hand, more of rapture, NOR
] of knowledge, more of intercommanica