Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-12

NEtu III the parsonage OF country mia
lister resolved to become a Christian
then and there, the half hour when de-
'ided to become preacher of the gospel.
the half hour when | first realized that
my son was dead, the half hour when |
stood on the top of my house in Oxford
street and saw our church bura, she half
hour in which | entered Jerusalem, the
half hour in which | stopped on Mount
Calvary. the half hour in which I stood
on Mars kill and about ten or fifteen
other half hours are the chief times Of
my life. You may forget the name Of
the exact years or most Of the important
events of your existence but those half
hours. like the half hour of my text. win
he immortal. ! do not query what you
will do with the twentieth century. |
do not query what YOU will do With this
YEAR bat what will You do with the reNt
half hour? Upon that hinges your dos
tiny, aud during that some of you Wlll
receive the gospel and make complete
surrender, aud during that others OF you
will make final and fatal rejection of the
full and free and urgent and imprisoned
offer Of life eternal. Oh, that the next
half hour might he the most glorious
thirty minutes OF your earthly existence!
Forever and Ever"
Again, my text suggests way Of
studying heaven so that we can better
understand it, The word eternity that
we can handle SO much is an immeasura-
bic world. Knowing that We could not
understand that word. the Bible uses it
only once. We say forever and ever"
But how long is forever and eyer?"
am glad that my text puts under orr eye
heaven for thirty minutes. As when Sou
see a great picture. You put sheet Of
paper into scroll and look through ii or
join your forcfnger TO your thumb and
look through the circle between. and the
picture becomes more intense 50 this
masterpiece OF heaven by st. John ~
more impressive when we take only thir-
ty minutes of ii Mt time. Now. No have
something that we can come nearer TO
gra Sping. and it is quiet heaven. When
we discourse about the multiudes Of
heaven, II must be almost a nervous
shock 10 those who have all their lives
been crowded by many people aud who
want Il quiet heaven. For the last thir-
| ty-hye years | have hecn much Of he
time i'll crowds and under public scrutiny
and amid excitements, aud | have Sonre-
| times thought for few weeks after |
reach heaven would like to 60 down in
some quiet part of the realm, with 4 few
friends, and for little while try com.
parative 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 a good woman in
! Hudson, n. y. said after hearing me
! . H., ,tsby t,F h.4sE ts
| THAT must be a great heaven, bur what
Will become Of my poor headT" Yes, this
half hour OF my text is still experience.
There was silence In heaven for half an
hour"
a Glimpse of tue Kings Palace.
You will find the inhabitants alt at
home Enter the Kings palace and take
only a glimpse, for we have only thirty
minutes for all heaven. rs that Jesus"
Yes Just under The hair along his
! forehead Is the mark Of a wound made
by bunch OF twisted hrambles, and his
foot on the throne has on the round Of
his instcn another mark of a wound made
by Il spike. and scar on the palm Of the
right hand and scar on the palm of the
left hand. But what countenance!
What n smile. What grandeur. What
a loycIinessl What an overwhelming
look Of kindness and grace! Why lis
| looks as If he had redeemed n world. Eut
come on. for our time is short, DO You
see that row OF palaces? That is the
| Apostolic row Do you see that long
reach of architectural glorics? THAT is
| Martyr row. DO You see that Immense
structure? That is the biggest house ia
heaven; that is 'thc house Of many uan-
sons." DO you see that walIt Shade
your eyes against its burning spieudor,
for that Is the wall Of heaven, jasper az
the bottom and amethyst ut the top See
| this river rolling through the heart of the
great metropolis? That is the river con
corning which those who once lived OH
! the banks Of the Hudson or the Alabama
or the Rhine or the Shannon say. We
never saw the like of this for clarity and
sheen" That is the chief river Of h"dyru
so bright, so wide 50 deep. BuJ yod
| ask. Nv here are the asylums FOR the
old = / answer, The inhabitants are
! al young" Where are the hospitals tor
| the lame" They are all agile Where
are the infrmarics for the blind and
| deaft" They all see and hear" Nv mere
are tho almshouSes for the poor" "fhey
are all multimIliouares. Where Ugt
the incbriale asylums" Why. there are
no saloons Where are the grave
| yards" why, they never die" Pass
| down those boulevards Of gold and am
be- and sapphire and see those intcrniu-
aD.c streets built by the Architect Of The
universe into homes. over the threshold
Of which sorrew never steps and Out Of
whose windows faces, once pale with
earthly sickness. now look ulbcund with
| immortal health.
ooh, let me 60 in aud see them you
say. No, you cannot 80 in. There arc
| those who would never consent to let you
come out again. You say, Let mo stay
| here in this place where they never sin.
where they never suffer, where they
never part" No. no! Our time is short
our thirty minutes are almost gone. Come
on, We must get back to earth before
this half hour of heavenly silence brcahS
up for in your mortal state you cannot
endure the pomp and splendor and res0A
ance when this half hour OF silence is
Tho ,lnV will anrnr x.-hnu y-,t, ta,,