The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-04-12

Celestial programme is so crowned
with spectacle that II can afford only
one recess in oil eternity, and that
for a short space. While there are
great choruses in which oil Heaven
can join, each soul there has story
of Divine mercy peculiar to ITSELF
and It must be solo. How can
Heaven get through with all its reel
tatives, with all it's cantatas, with
all It's grand marches, with all its
victories? Eternity is too short TO
utter all the praise.
In my text Heaven spared 80 MIN
utes, but It will never again spare
one minute. In worship In earthly
churches where there are many to
take part we have to counsel brew
ity. but how will Heaven get on rap
idly enough to let $4,000 get through
| each with his own story and then
| 144 .OOO. 900 and then 144, 000, 100000 and
then IA. 0OO, 600, O00, 900? 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
deific. II my text had said there
| was silence in Heaven for 80 days,
would not have been startled at the
| announcement, but it indicates 80
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 inscru-
table things of earth we will need
explained, so many exciting earthly
experiences we will want to talk
over. and all the earthly spirits and
all the other spirits and all the ages
will want the same, that there VIII
be no more opportunity for cessa-
ton. How busy we will be kept In
having pointed out to us the heroes
and heroines that the world never
fully appreciated--the yellow fever
and cholera doctors who died, not
fying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestilence in the
lazarettos; the railroad engineers
who stayed at their places in order
to save the train, though they them
selves persisted. Hubert Coffin, the
master miner, who, landing from the
bracket at the bottom of the mine
Just as he heard the waters rush IN
. and when one jerk of the rope would
, have lifted him into safety, put in
the bucket blind miner who wanted
TO 90 to his sick child and jerked the
rope for him to be pulled up, crying:
, Tell them the water has burst in
! and we are probably lost, but we will
seek refuge at the other end of the
. right gallery" and then giving the
command to the other miners til
4 they digged themselves so near out
that the people from the outside
!, could come to their rescue. The mul
!, titudes of men and women who go
:, no crown on earth we will want t.
= see when they get their crown il
;, Heaven. tell you Heaven will hav'
n no more half hours to spare.
|, Besides that, Heaven is full of chill
o dren. They are in the vast majority
i No child on earth who amounts t
o ANYTHING can be kept quiet half n
j. hour, and how are you going to keeI
N 5OO,OOO,000 Of them quiet half n
n. hour? You know Heaven is nue.
more of place than it was whe
o. that recess of 30 minutes occurred
n It's population has quadrupled sen
ii tupled, centupled. Heaven has NOR
10 on hand, more of rapture, more o
ID knowledge, more of intercommunica
n ton. more Of worship. The mos
% thrilling place we have ever been j
~ is stupi,l compared with that, and.
n we now have no time to spare, W
w will then have no eternity to SPAR
Id Silence in Heaven only half an hour
lie NV subject also impresses me wit
,e the immortality of a half hour. Tha
ut half hour mentioned in my text is nor
es widely known than any other period
e. the calendar of Heaven. None of til
is whole hours of Heaven is measure
st off. none of the years, none of the Gel
Sc turtles. OF the millions of ages pa.
to and the millions of ages to come n,
c. one is especially measured off in tt
a Bible. But the half hour of my text
We made immortal The only part of etc
nifty that was ever measured by cart
at ly timepiece was measured by the mi
&C. ute hand of my text. Oh, the ha
Id hours! They decide everything.
s.. not asking what you will do with Il
nd years or months or days Of your lii
a but what of the half hours? Tell n
lie the history of your half hours and
If will tell you the story of your who
ice life on earth and the story Of 20
ic- whole life in eternity. The right
so wrong things you can think in 80 mi
in utes, the right or wrong things y
I'VE can say in 30 minutes, the right
ks. wrong things you do in 30 minutes a
wo glorious or baleful, inspiring or d.
nd perate.
Again. my text suggests a way
mt studying Heaven so that we can bett
ol- understand It. The word "eternit
The that we can handle so much is an
pie measurable world. Knowing that
ing could not understand that word, t
of Bible uses it only once. We say If
ac- ever and ever" But how long is If
un- ever and ever?" i am glad that
ur- text puts under our eye Heaven
eat 30 minutes. AS when you see gr'
ing picture, you put sheet of pal
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